Harley Finkelstein

And I said, Aldo, what do you think of AI?

And I was kind of like, it was a bit of a joke.

I was kind of poking fun of like the young guy, like young retail guy poking the old retail guy.

And Aldo, without skipping a beat, says, it's like having a best friend in your pocket.

This is an 85-year-old man.

He's seen, you know, he's seen everything.

He's seen all new technology for the last, you know, in and out of decades.

But even the fact that he can appreciate how much leverage you get with this new technology, I think is amazing.

So I think it'll make us move faster.

I think it'll allow us to build stuff with smaller teams.

I think it'll allow our merchants to make better decisions.

I think you're going to see, you know, I'm blown away even pre kind of some of these large language models and AI tools coming out in the last four or five years.

I found it to be remarkable that these companies that started in 2014 have become billion-dollar companies in the last 10 or 11 years.

Typically, business does not happen like that.

It took decades to become hegemonic, to become the leader in your category.

And now you have companies like, I don't know what to call it, Viorey.

Alo Yoga.

These companies didn't exist a decade ago and now they are absolutely unequivocal category leaders.

It's wild.

It took them like less than 10 years.