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I want to ask you last note.

I think decisions are kind of,

important, but what's even more important is just alignment of the entire org, right?

So in a larger, this is why startups can move fast.

Alignment is simple.

You're like literally sitting with 20 of your coworkers and you can make a decision and just run immediately, right?

Now, if you think about a remote company or a larger company, alignment becomes more and more difficult as you add more people into the equation.

So I think it's important that when decisions are made that a lot of people talk about disagree and commit or whatever, great.

It's really just another way to say, can we align on this thing and can we go run as fast as possible?

So I think a lot of my job and a lot of my team's job is to make sure that we have that alignment.

At Block and Square specifically, the singular roadmap and top-up priorities help with that.

Within that, the DRI model can help make sure those decisions are cascaded down, owned, and driven towards completion.

I think it's one of the reasons why I'm still here 11 years in.

I think Jack is an incredible visionary leader.

I sometimes joke that I think he lives in the future.

He has a great intuitive sense about what's important for customers and where markets and things are going.

kind of his directs are really responsible for setting the overarching strategy of like, these are the big opportunities where we want to go.

We've made some good decisions and we've made some bad decisions at the kind of corporate level.

I think with the new focus of kind of these functionalized teams, we're making better decisions every single day, again, from that alignment and actually forms for Jack to weigh in and kind of provide guidance and input on things that teams might be struggling with.

He's very similar.