Jonah Goodhart

And I think for me, the chance to work with and at and be a part of a company like Oracle was exciting.

I had never worked at a big company.

And so I was excited about taking on that as a new opportunity for learning, as a new challenge.

And it's been tremendously rewarding from my perspective.

I'll tell you one thing that happened post Oracle is that I lost 70 pounds.

And so I was in a place personally running Moat where I was working really hard and I was doing the classic rationalization where you kind of go, all right, it's fine.

I'll figure this out later.

And in the meantime, you order a pizza and you order room service and you don't necessarily make the best decisions.

I think for your personal life, I can tell you, at least for me, I wasn't making the best decisions personally in terms of the things I was choosing to eat and how I was treating my body.

Post-Oracle, you start to have a perspective that's a longer-term horizon.

You start to think about Oracle doesn't look at the world as what's going to happen just today or tomorrow.

They think about, all right, where is this world going?

the next one, two, three, four, five, 10, et cetera, years.

And as you shift that sort of horizon outlook from being quarterly, monthly, or weekly in a startup world to being something that's longer, you take a different path.

And I think I've learned a lot in this process.

I've gotten to certainly get in shape and get healthy, which has been awesome.

But I've also learned a lot about how do we make day-to-day decisions when we're building companies and how are we

about the law because it's not the thing about some of

Those decisions you make sometimes have to bite you.

And so as I think about decision-making in building a company, I think you want to sort of balance the, all right, I got to get it done immediately.