Corey Knowles

Yeah.

Well, it kind of watered it down over the course of a couple of years, too.

Like, we went through this phase where everything was suddenly an AI tool when they bolted a chatbot on the side.

That's right.

Always a chatbot.

And then last year, everything was an agent, even if it wasn't an agent.

Right, right.

I think that's kind of turned around to bite folks a little bit.

Yes.

You need a degree to learn to work them kind of tools.

That makes sense.

Well, let's talk a little bit about equity and talent.

If I'm an early employee considering joining a startup right now, what does the equity landscape look like compared to a few years ago?

What should I maybe expect and look out for?

They're just getting more money.

Yeah.

Yeah, and this is very subjective, but it doesn't feel like we're feeling any signs of this slowing down.

I feel like from a news volume, from a new companies, new tools perspective, I feel like it's consistently moving faster than, say, the previous quarter.

If I try to look at it in chunks, I mean, I don't have any data to base that on, but just as far as from a...

what we're seeing at the neuron perspective, it feels like there's a velocity, if that makes sense.