Steve Anderson

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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He had an all-hands meeting in Seattle 10 years ago now.

He had a question from an employee in the audience.

He had talked about company update and opened it up for questions.

The question was, Jeff, because of that day one, that's very common.

Jeff, what does day two look like?

And he kind of chuckled and he said, I think I know the answer to this question.

Day two is stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline.

followed by death.

And that's why it's always day one.

So you think about those companies that once were very successful and they actually told that story in the 2016 letter.

And he said, it could take 20 years for that process, but once it starts, it's really hard to reverse.

And he said, and this is, I want to tie into a little what you said earlier about AI.

He said, there are four things that I think will help fend off day two.

I won't go through all of them, but the one is eager adoption of external trends.

And he identified in 10 years ago, machine learning and artificial intelligence as one of those trends.

So again,

Looking ahead, not being afraid, having an understanding of experimentation and trying and moving forward.

I think there'd be some version of that conversation to his son.

I love it.

Well, Steve, thanks so much for showing up and being here with us.

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