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0:00 Caller: Hey, Jed, how are you?
0:00 You: This call will be recorded.
0:04 You: Hey, Jeremy.
0:08 You: I'm well in yourself.
0:11 Caller: I'm doing well also, almost the weekend.
0:14 Caller: So I saw that you mentioned you're talking to RC on Monday, which is great.
0:22 Caller: So at this point, it's really just like, you know, is everything clicking.
0:30 Caller: Do you seem like you're a good person to work with, et cetera?
0:30 You: Thank you.
0:31 You: Thank you.
0:32 You: Thank you.
0:33 You: Thank you.
0:34 Caller: So I think that RC is just going to maybe be there to, one, find out a little bit more about you.
0:35 You: Thank you.
0:36 You: Thank you.
0:37 You: Thank you.
0:38 You: Thank you.
0:42 Caller: And, you know, are you the right fit, so to speak, in terms of just, you know, everything that you've done historically in your background, building agents, everything like that.
0:58 Caller: But as far, you've gotten good feedback.
1:00 Caller: And then I think he's also really there to tell you more about the company and answer questions for you, too.
1:06 Caller: So I think, you know, this is a good opportunity where you could even, you could even, like, go in and ask him about, you know, assuming that we move forward.
1:08 You: Thank you.
1:21 Caller: Could you tell me sort of what the structure of the company is like?
1:26 Caller: And, like, you even mention that you've spoken to me and that there's different vertical.
1:30 Caller: goals at all play a role and kind of synergetically work together. You know, I wouldn't like outright be like,
1:36 Caller: how much money would I make work in here, but he probably will kind of go into that a bit or at least
1:38 You: Thank you.
1:39 You: Thank you.
1:40 Caller: say, you know, at a high level what that looks like. And you'll probably also give you, assuming they're
1:45 Caller: going to hire you, which, you know, I think we're really close to that point. They'll give you like a
1:49 Caller: whole breakdown of that in a deck even. That's something I have. I just, I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed
1:56 Caller: to share that unless given permission.
2:00 Caller: But I think that, you know, the one thing that you could talk about that could be of a benefit, like if you just want to make a note of it, is like that you are a really good developer and that you could sit, you know, you could be paired with someone from a business side or someone who, you know, has a business issue and develop something for them that actually uses technology to achieve the,
2:09 You: Thank you.
2:10 You: Thank you.
2:12 You: Thank you.
2:13 You: Thank you.
2:30 Caller: right outcome. That's what they're looking for. You know, I think that, and a reason why I say that,
2:37 Caller: by the way, is Paul gave me some pretty good in detail feedback and said they thought you're a really
2:42 Caller: good engineer and a builder type of person and that you'd really succeed if you're paired with someone
2:43 You: Thank you.
2:45 You: Thank you.
2:46 You: Thank you.
2:49 You: Thank you.
2:49 Caller: who, like, kind of understands, like, the framing of a business issue and everything like that. So,
2:50 You: Thank you.
2:52 You: Thank you.
2:53 You: Thank you.
2:54 You: Thank you.
2:54 Caller: you could even say, like, that's something that you currently do, um, if that I'll make
2:58 You: Thank you.
3:00 Caller: sense. I don't even know it's going to get into the level like what you could or should do or anything,
3:00 You: Thank you.
3:01 You: Thank you.
3:02 You: Thank you.
3:07 Caller: but if you want to just keep that in mind, you know, that you're the type of person that could
3:09 You: Thank you.
3:10 You: Thank you.
3:11 You: Thank you.
3:12 You: Thank you.
3:13 Caller: build things that ultimately achieve an outcome for a business and, like, you know, be the person
3:15 You: Thank you.
3:16 You: Thank you.
3:17 You: Thank you.
3:18 Caller: who builds the tool or the agent or the technology that, you know, kind of achieves a strategy
3:24 You: Thank you.
3:25 You: Thank you.
3:26 You: Thank you.
3:26 Caller: that a business is looking for. That's really good.
3:27 You: Thank you.
3:29 You: Thank you.
3:30 You: Thank you.
3:31 You: I.
3:31 Caller: As far as R.C. goes, I think you're really going to like talking. He is really nice and
3:32 You: Thank you.
3:38 Caller: personable and down to earth, but he's extremely intelligent. And whenever I've spoken with him,
3:39 You: Thank you.
3:40 You: Thank you.
3:41 You: Thank you.
3:42 You: Thank you.
3:45 You: Thank you.
3:45 Caller: it really resonates how deeply not only does he understand AI, but also this entire
3:46 You: Thank you
3:48 You: Thank you.
3:50 You: I
3:51 You: Thank you
3:52 You: Thank you.
3:52 Caller: kind of subject matter of building value and monitoring.
3:54 You: Thank you.
3:55 You: Thank you.
3:56 Caller: monetizing AI. You know, he really wrote the playbook for AI value creation, which kind of
4:02 Caller: like morphed into what this company is today. And, you know, he's kind of really, you know, more or less
4:12 Caller: at an early stage found lightning in a bottle. I mean, this is a company that now has the former
4:17 Caller: head of AI for Citadel working for him, like, you know, former leaders from Millennium and
4:23 Caller: people from like Google and Elastic and, like, great tech companies.
4:25 You: Thank you.
4:26 Caller: that are all on board in probably the time I started working with them and from like the time
4:35 Caller: that R.C. basically left and started this company and now the company's grown by like 40 people.
4:39 Caller: They're doing extremely well. So you're still getting in and out the ground floor and it's not a
4:45 Caller: company that's become bloated or anything where like if you get in there, it's very dynamic and
4:51 Caller: you can work across the organization and it's not like siloed where you got to do this one thing
4:55 You: Thank you.
4:56 Caller: or that's not what we hired you to do. Like when you go to kind of like bigger AI companies,
5:01 Caller: that's kind of what people run into and why in my experience when I've spoken to people who are like at
5:07 Caller: like an anthropic or a mistral or places like that, why they typically want to look outside
5:12 Caller: and do something else. So R.C., you can look him up on LinkedIn and see his background,
5:21 Caller: but he's a really, really smart guy. I think from memory that he went to Dartmouth undergrad and
5:25 You: Thank you.
5:25 Caller: as a Ph.D. and computer science from Penn. And started two companies out of academia,
5:33 Caller: sold both of them with the former head of AI product for BCG. And that's where like he grew a lot
5:40 Caller: of the network in terms of people who were initially there at phase one of AIVC. But it's also where he
5:46 Caller: kind of said, like, there is an issue with the business that BCG and McKinsey and these
5:55 You: Thank you.
5:55 Caller: other places are in where they're not actually delivering value. Ultimately, they're going to lose
6:01 Caller: business because people don't want to pay for kind of like half-baked deliverables that they
6:06 Caller: scrap a week or two from now and, you know, really just kind of looked at how do I actually
6:13 Caller: make money for people so that I can build something that's kind of AI enabled. And when I exit,
6:20 Caller: they're still using it and still making money. And that's kind of like what's carried over into him,
6:25 You: All right.
6:25 Caller: this organization. And I'm sure he could get into all of that with you. I think this is generally
6:29 You: All right.
6:32 Caller: just, hey, Jed, it's nice to meet you. Tell me a bit about yourself, the stuff you've worked on,
6:34 You: Then I guess I have what I need, or is there more.
6:37 Caller: and then, you know, kind of let me tell you what we're thinking and sort of what we do here. And
6:43 Caller: he will be the best person to answer really any questions that you have, too.
6:54 You: There are more.
6:55 Caller: No, that's it. And between you and me, I told some people that I was like, I'm pretty sure you're going to get other offers from places. So I really doubt he's going to bring that up. But I also was like, you know, we've got to kind of move this along and get to the finale here and not waste more time. So I think he's going into this with the mindset of everyone's really like you, Jed, and they want to pursue and move ahead.
7:24 You: Okay.
7:25 Caller: So I think this is just kind of, you know, a, it's going to be like a warm sort of meeting and also, you know, an opportunity where you could find out more about the company and ask questions and things like that and get whatever clarity you need and vice versa.
7:28 You: Okay.
7:29 You: I'll keep all that in mind.
7:48 Caller: And the same is what I've probably said for Paul or other people that you've spoken with.
7:53 Caller: RSI is a super nice guy. So he is not an intimidating interview by any stretching imagination, albeit he's never actually interviewed me, but in any conversation I've had, he's been really nice.
7:54 You: Okay, then that should be everything.
8:05 Caller: And everyone I know who I've introduced who works there at this point really likes working with him. So I expect this to be a very friendly conversation.
8:07 You: Thank you for the insight and the intel and the intel and the intel and the intel and enjoy.
8:23 You: tell and enjoy your weekend, Jeremy.
8:23 Caller: Same to you. And to a degree, I do apologize. This has taken a while to get to the stage.
8:31 Caller: But, you know, there's just been a lot of balls up in the air. And I know R.C. was traveling this past week. So we will hopefully have, be near the conclusion on Monday.
8:33 You: They have reasons, I'm sure.
8:39 You: Sounds good. All right.
8:46 You: Take care.
8:46 Caller: All right. Let me know if you need anything.
8:48 You: Absolutely.
8:49 You: You too.
8:50 Caller: All right. Have a good one.
8:51 You: You too.
8:52 You: Bye.
8:53 You: Thank you.
8:53 Caller: Bye.