Harley Finkelstein

And I'm super fortunate that it did and grateful that it did.

That means a great deal to me.

That goes back to that industry, you know, conference that we talked about as a metaphor that, you know, I try to stand.

I want to be able to stand up at the conference of every chief storyteller, every, you know, president of any of any company in the world and say, here's I'm doing it differently.

You know, Lulu is on our board.

She was amazing.

Probably one of the greatest comms geniuses on the planet talks about this.

Go direct.

She's a famous go direct manifesto.

That's kind of what I've always been doing, this idea that even the way that I treat earnings, it's not an earnings call for me.

It's a storytelling opportunity.

And I love seeing all these companies now.

Now you see a bunch of tech companies turning the camera around and them being like, here's how the earnings went.

I've been doing that for a while now.

That's what I mean, though.

think it's really fun and i and because i'm now seeing other companies do that i'm like okay so like now how can i keep going from here how do i like what's the next step here how do i re-qualify i've done that already i've done the like go directly on earnings like what's the what's the 10x version of that what's the global maximum version of that that makes it really fun despite what you uh may think of yourself i think of you as a world-class storyteller

Now I get to do the knowledge part.

This is a big podcast.

I'm not trying to blow smoke or flatter you, but this is a big podcast.

I didn't start by doing the Shane Parrish podcast.