Mark Organ

That doesn't sustainably create lots of high-tech, innovative jobs, whereas I think what I'm doing does.

So I know that might sound selfish, but I don't think it is.

I don't think it is because I think those of us that are in venture-backed software companies, if we're building valuable software, we are helping our customers, which are other companies,

become more profitable and making them more successful.

I think that's more important than serving food, personally.

That is absolutely the case for a number of my clients.

The first thing is we need to build strong defense.

It's very difficult to innovate and figure out new products and services for growth until we know that we have enough runway.

And it really depends on the situation.

There's one of my clients where she really wasn't able to let go of people, but she was able to get them to work a four-day week instead of a five-day week.

Um, and that was able to save a lot of jobs and is keeping the business running.

Correct.

Furlough.

Yeah.

It's a furlough, but as opposed to like going a week off at a time, you're going off.

So there's a rotating schedule where every day there's, there's a, you know, if she's got 80 people in her company, um,

There's 16 people that are off on the Monday.

There's 16 people that are off on the Tuesday and so on.

I was pretty smart, actually.

And she got a great response from her employees who are happy to still have their jobs.