Chris Blackburn

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Eye On A.I. · Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So I spent all of my career in the Bay Area, a lot of that in San Francisco and all the surrounding areas.

And just really got influenced by, you know, the startup culture, hustle culture, but more than anything, like passion, excitement and motivation for building the future and all of that.

I thought that was really exciting.

However, I found myself all the time in large, complex organizations, enterprises.

Yeah.

And I tell the story as almost a joke, but you know, you could be in a building in downtown San Francisco and stand outside the elevator.

And on one end of the building is a new high flying startup.

And on the other end is a old stodgy enterprise.

And as people walk off the elevator, you can almost just tell where they're going.

Are they motivated, excited, passionate?

Are they gonna change the world and they're going to the startup?

Do they feel like life's not awesome, this is not enjoyable, they're just here to do a job, felt like they were going to the enterprise.

And I really wanted to be part of a change there.

So my entire career was spent in the enterprise and it was spent trying to bring this passion, excitement, motivation to the enterprise.

And then finally, the final piece of it was being in the enterprise, I got to see every other consulting firm on the planet there, from the biggest, most strategic firms, all the way down to the service providers.

And I just really felt like if you looked at what the work that was being done, it wasn't always the customer winning, but the service provider was winning.

And I just thought that was backwards.

And I thought I could build a firm where we would win by default if our customers win.

And so that's where I started Liatrio, like I said, a little over 10 years ago, you know, in the DevOps space for enterprises or complex organizations.

But really it was the purity of DevOps more than anything, end to end flow of value, getting teams to work better together, efficiency plays, small batch, quick iteration to learn and experiment and try things out and uplift the organization together.

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