Will Bryk
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Wow.
Yeah, and, like, just outside mission control.
Like, I'm getting tingles just thinking about it.
But, yeah, like, just seeing that, like, people coming together to do something magical.
Like, that was very inspiring and made a big impact on me.
And, yeah, in terms of my leadership style, yeah, I like to think that I've incorporated some of what I think are the best aspects of Elon.
So, you know, for example, like, he's very detail-oriented.
Like, he gets into the details of everything.
And, like, for better or worse, like, I do that, too, at Exa.
Like, everything from, like, the algorithms, like, the vector DB algorithm to, like, the office space and making sure, like, every part of the office is, like,
like really just like inspires and like excites.
And like shows our passion.
And that goes across everything from our marketing to the engineering to go to market.
And so that's exciting.
Obviously it doesn't scale.
So one thing I've been learning as we scale the company is like,
what details can I choose to go into?
And so I like the eagle metaphor of like, you know, I'm an eagle flying above the company and then when I see some detail that I think should be important to fix, I go dive down and go into it and then come back up.
So I think Elon has some of those properties.
Obviously, Elon is like all in every day for, what is it, like...