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Ian Myers

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Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Yeah, that's correct. And I think it's also important to mention that a lot of people that work for us, they're getting to access... We work with some of the top e-commerce companies in the world, some of the top AI startups in the world. They're getting to access... such incredible opportunities and learn from businesses that would be completely inaccessible otherwise for them.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Yeah, that's correct. And I think it's also important to mention that a lot of people that work for us, they're getting to access... We work with some of the top e-commerce companies in the world, some of the top AI startups in the world. They're getting to access... such incredible opportunities and learn from businesses that would be completely inaccessible otherwise for them.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

And I think in a way we are opening doors on both sides and that is a great business. Everybody wins. And I haven't built a business before where everybody was like really happy all across the board. And that's been really rewarding.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

And I think in a way we are opening doors on both sides and that is a great business. Everybody wins. And I haven't built a business before where everybody was like really happy all across the board. And that's been really rewarding.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

The important thing to know about me is that I am inherently skeptical. I'm something of a cynic. I think the value of being involved in the tech community to a large extent, but also in many other industries around the world. And so I have a healthy amount of skepticism when I hear the tech industry's claims about AI and things like that.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

The important thing to know about me is that I am inherently skeptical. I'm something of a cynic. I think the value of being involved in the tech community to a large extent, but also in many other industries around the world. And so I have a healthy amount of skepticism when I hear the tech industry's claims about AI and things like that.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

And my feeling is undeniable that the technology is impressive and important. I would argue that as with most great technologies, The adoption curve is going to be much longer than people expect. If you look back toward everything from VR to autonomous vehicles, the predictions around when it would change the world were always too short. I think we are at a stage where

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

And my feeling is undeniable that the technology is impressive and important. I would argue that as with most great technologies, The adoption curve is going to be much longer than people expect. If you look back toward everything from VR to autonomous vehicles, the predictions around when it would change the world were always too short. I think we are at a stage where

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

AI is going to be an augmentative solution for much longer than people think before it is a full solution in any part of the roles that we fill for businesses. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be specific roles that can be done fully by AI, but I suspect that it will be augmentatives for longer than people think.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

AI is going to be an augmentative solution for much longer than people think before it is a full solution in any part of the roles that we fill for businesses. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be specific roles that can be done fully by AI, but I suspect that it will be augmentatives for longer than people think.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Yeah, and I also think not only is the adoption curve longer than people expect, there's different types of businesses that will adopt faster than others. If I look at some of our most cutting-edge startup clients, they are already using AI in very sophisticated ways inside their businesses.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Yeah, and I also think not only is the adoption curve longer than people expect, there's different types of businesses that will adopt faster than others. If I look at some of our most cutting-edge startup clients, they are already using AI in very sophisticated ways inside their businesses.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

If I go look at some of our clients that own landscaping businesses or that own storage companies, they're not really using it at all. So... I think what we will see is a fast adoption by the always fastest adopters, which are startups, but a much longer tail adoption for other businesses over time.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

If I go look at some of our clients that own landscaping businesses or that own storage companies, they're not really using it at all. So... I think what we will see is a fast adoption by the always fastest adopters, which are startups, but a much longer tail adoption for other businesses over time.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

It's an interesting question. I have experienced it at various points in my career, and I'm also not experienced at all in various points in my career. So an example of this is I worked a lot in Japan, and the Japanese professional structure is extremely hierarchical. Your age is almost the most important thing about you.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

It's an interesting question. I have experienced it at various points in my career, and I'm also not experienced at all in various points in my career. So an example of this is I worked a lot in Japan, and the Japanese professional structure is extremely hierarchical. Your age is almost the most important thing about you.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Your ideas, your initiative, your drive, your success, your track record plays a somewhat minor role in your ability to succeed inside large organizations relative to tenure, which is another way of saying age. And so...

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

Your ideas, your initiative, your drive, your success, your track record plays a somewhat minor role in your ability to succeed inside large organizations relative to tenure, which is another way of saying age. And so...

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

in societies like that i encountered something that caused me frustration and put me on the path to entrepreneurship which was you're not looking at my ideas and my results you're looking at how old i am that was something i couldn't personally tolerate Now, I became a CEO when I was 26. I had a team of 30 people by the time we exited the company.

Chief Change Officer
#348 Ian Myers: From Tintin to Talent—Building Global Teams With Soul

in societies like that i encountered something that caused me frustration and put me on the path to entrepreneurship which was you're not looking at my ideas and my results you're looking at how old i am that was something i couldn't personally tolerate Now, I became a CEO when I was 26. I had a team of 30 people by the time we exited the company.