Steven Pope

That is very challenging shit for me.

I've known nothing but success in my life.

There is nothing that I have touched that hasn't gotten better with effort.

This is the first time in my life I haven't been able to solve a problem in under 48 hours.

And if money could solve it, it wouldn't be a problem.

It would just be an expense.

But if I'm going to make a company that outlives me, that lives a thousand years, I've got to crack this.

Because if the company is not growing, it is dying.

Now, mind you, economy sucks right now.

Y'all know that.

You got tariffs causing a ruckus.

You got AI causing a shit storm.

And even though it's not adding value, it's disrupting still.

Even though AI doesn't make us money, we're still talking about it as if it's going to change everything.

And it will.

There will be a moment in time when everything just shifts and changes, just like Google did, just like Gmail did, just like all of a sudden we no longer go to Google to search anything.

We look it up in AI, even though we still call it Googling.

AI just doesn't sound cool.

It's not a very cool verb.

It needs something different.