Joe Liemandt

They're doing 100 days of 100-hour weeks to learn AI, to build apps with AI, and retool your whole career to be like, what am I going to be in the future?

And they have it set up where it's actually free for people to go through this.

And then if you make it through and there's like a 50 plus percent washout rate, but they then get a $200,000 job because there are all these companies just lining up for being like, oh my God, these people just worked 100 hours a week.

They're leading a GI.

Oh, I can't wait to hire them.

It's a unique thing where when it started, people were like, no one's going to go sign up to do that.

But if you actually talk to the gauntlet grads, they're like, this transformed my life.

What would be the parts that matter back then is it's always back to capital is you're trying to figure out is the trade-off between how much do I have to pay for this company?

And the more I pay, the better caliber asset I get.

versus, okay, what's the cash flow I can generate out of it?

And then what are the things that generate the cash flow?

And so first you're like, okay, what are the innovations we can make about customer interaction and delivering customer success?

And how do we innovate there?

The second part is, okay, how do we take this code base and old code base and how do we make the product better?

And how do we make sure that we're being able to take these and revitalize them?

And how do we do that?

Third, how do you source the talent for this?

You can't just take the Silicon Valley growth people.

You're like, how do I go get people who care about this?

And how do I find them?