Ethan Evans

You'd be like, oh, why'd we have to go through all that?

But there was good reason for it.

Other times he would come in at the end and say, no, this is not, here's my three thoughts.

But other people in the room were expected whenever you were in one of those rooms, you were expected to pretend it was your business and that your goal was to figure out what was being described in this document.

And was it a good idea or not?

And how could you improve it?

And then give your best thinking.

Now, it wasn't meant that you should just always talk.

Some people wouldn't say a lot.

Some people would.

But we there wasn't any particular speaking order.

What would happen is after it was all read, we would actually say it's another like super detailed thing.

Should we go line by line?

And so you would start reviewing the document from the top and the person who owned the document or the meeting will be like, any questions on the first paragraph?

If there were, you discuss them.

Any questions on the second or any comments?

It was very methodical.

And I think that's also why Jeff felt it was better than PowerPoint.

I'm not sure exactly how many words are in six typewritten pages, but it's thousands.

If you think about the typical PowerPoint deck, five or 10 words a slide, maybe 15 slides.