Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Can you talk a little bit about your personal story that's arrived you at this specific topic area and source of motivation?

Why you doing this thing?

What the formative experiences or lessons have been that got you to here?

I want to ask you about engineering culture, pace, quality of people, like all those kinds of things.

I think it's more interesting to hear what the examples are that you've seen firsthand of extreme excellence in business.

I'm looking for stories, anecdotes here.

The things that have made a lasting impact on you, like you saw it with your own eyes, someone did something and that changed what you thought was possible in terms of quality standard for

thinking, operating, innovating.

What are the formative anecdotes or people that have informed your view of how culture can and should be at a business?

Yeah.

There's nothing like having a couple data points rather than just one.

I can certainly say having those couple data points, it's amazing how quickly you've come up the learning curve and how impressive the output of the team has been.

It's such a cool business concept and such a great way to teach us all about a critical thing that's working there all day, every day that we don't think too much about that we sort of take for granted.

And I feel like I know a lot more about the grid and its future now.

It's been so much fun to have you.

I think you know my traditional closing question.

What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you?

So thank you.

Zooming in on the parents thing, you said what I say all the time, which is like I was born on third base myself.

I know a lot of people who have been born in all circumstances who have succeeded or failed from all starting points, but there's no doubt that the advantage that you had that I had growing up, forget about magnitude or degree, the reality is it's a very lucky, privileged starting point.