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“Yeah, so when I started at Harvey, Winston and Gabe had a clear vision that they wanted to build a generational company, and they had some equivalent ideas, I should say, to Brian and Dharmesh, but our culture was less d...”

“Donovan, what parting advice would you like to share with our community?”

“Elodie, how do you balance the messiness of human dynamics with the structured needs of business objectives? Can you share a specific example?”

“R&D. I would always ask folks about what were they were doing, what was the work they were doing. I would attend poster sessions and I would try to learn as much as I could. And so because I was in HR, I could easily mov...”

“specific to the, the area that I oversaw. And I think the lesson is, and this is one that I didn't understand at the time I was UPS, but after joining Tesla, you know, it's about first principles, which is breaking every...”

“Yeah, I'd say don't get locked into the mindset that you have to do something a certain way. Just because that's how it was done before doesn't mean that's what's gonna work now. And I've worked in consumer goods, high-t...”

“my learning. Turn that off. Because that way, none of the information that you're adding in there is gonna go out to anybody else if you mistakenly put personal or private information in there. I, in the early days, you...”

“can relate to our work failures when we're learning something for the first time. So don't be afraid to take that first step, even if it ends up in a whoopsie.”

“So At my time at Apple, one of my— I learned a lot there, and one of my biggest takeaways was a story that I loved that Steve Jobs used to share about his father, who many of you know and may have heard of this, but he w...”

“I think that's, I think any communications place would, would say that's something that's always a rub of you wanna get it out fast, but then there's this approval and layers of approval process that I think I would try...”

“To become intentional because the business, especially depending on where you're at, if you're in anything tech or rapid growth, it's like, no, it's, you don't have time to think. You gotta go fast.”

“to the needs of the company. That's what a builder does. An operator just, again, copies playbooks and just comes in and plugs and play. And the last thing I want to just call out is my company's— one of my company's cor...”