Mark Abbott

artificial intelligence to help you navigate your stages of development.

First stage is just figuring out survival.

Second stage is getting things up and running and moving.

You've proven product market fit.

Third stage is starting to scale the organization.

Fourth stage is you're succeeding.

This is predictable.

It's consistent.

And then the fifth stage is you've gotten the business to the place where you actually don't need to be there anymore.

That's scary for some people, but the reality is we need to get our companies to the stewardship stage.

This is a place where we could gladly hand it to the next generation of leaders, or we could sell it to someone who we would genuinely be happy selling it to.

Ultimately, we want to have that, something that we deeply feel good about, because wouldn't it be great to love your companies forever, even after you've sold them?

All right, so now talking about the humans in the company, right?

How are we going to use AI there?

We're building out a mentor bot.

I've been working on him for a year and a half now.

Its name's Maz.

I struggle sometimes with the gender thing.

But its name's Maz.

And ultimately, it's going to meet every one of our employees where they are.