Henry Schuck

Not probably.

We didn't have the right engineering or product talent at the time to pull that together.

And so that project was like slow going and the pathway to delivering it was not obvious and didn't really leverage our key skill sets either.

And so when we first saw the power of generative AI, we had to make a decision to go leave that vision behind and go drive towards a future vision.

And I think like that's probably where most large organizations get stuck.

There's this innovator's dilemma, like this is the thing I'm doing.

How do I abandon this whole thing and like chase after a new shiny object?

I remember being on a trip with a friend of mine who runs a publicly traded software company.

And I was telling him how like, I just turned 40.

And I was like, you know, I'm 40 now.

I started this business when I was 23.

And when I was 23, like I was a digital native.

I was an internet and web native.

And so I understood the internet and I was able to like leverage that ability and curiosity to start building a data business that then turned into a software business.

And I worry now I'm 40 and like,

Am I going to be able to drive that same level of innovation at 40 as I was able to drive at 23 when I was like deep into these things?

And I don't even really know what the next thing is, what that thing would be.

And he was like, oh, it's AI.

It's 100% AI.

And you should put all of your energy behind AI.