Inspired with Alexa von Tobel
00:47:33 · Max Shaw, Alexa von Tobel
[00:47:33] S3: For me, it's... I think this is the thing I realized pretty early on, and I don't think it's a yext thing. But I... The thing that I constantly remind people is that no one really knows what they're doing. I think there's a lot of impostor syndrome. There's a lot of... I remember I got, like, some big assignment at Yext early on. I'm like, who do I talk to about this? Who's the expert? And it's like, there is no expert. You just gotta figure it And I think the... I guess the fancy way of saying that is, like, thinking from first principles. But no one really knows what to do. And everything's different, and everyone's trying to... And especially in a startup, you're trying to invent something that's never happened before, and there's not a playbook we can follow. There's not a book we can read that's gonna tell us what to do. We need to figure it out. And the people on our team, the people on your team are the most qualified people in the world to do it, and you're fully capable of it. I think it's it's easy to think, hey. I don't know what I'm doing. Everyone feels that way. You're figuring out something for the first time. It is hard, but that... That's where all the fun is. [00:48:30] S2: I love it. I'm gonna end on a fun one that I love to ask people, which is... And I'll I'll give you the ten second heads up of, like, your most contrarian thought right now. Sort of your most original belief that I... Maybe it's nuts and crazy and very wrong. What would it be?
00:48:30 · Alexa von Tobel, Brian Distelburger, Max Shaw
[00:48:30] S2: I love it. I'm gonna end on a fun one that I love to ask people, which is... And I'll I'll give you the ten second heads up of, like, your most contrarian thought right now. Sort of your most original belief that I... Maybe it's nuts and crazy and very wrong. What would it be? [00:48:50] S0: I'm very... Man, this might be a hot take now. I'm I'm very optimistic about New York City, generally. I think there's a lot of angst around the political climate in the city and what is going on. I think we're gonna work through it as a city and be be stronger, and New York is gonna be very, very successful. I don't know if that totally qualifies as a hot take. [00:49:20] S3: But [00:49:20] S2: Listen. That... It's a it's a hot take that I double plus agree on, so I like it. Max?
00:49:20 · Alexa von Tobel, Max Shaw, Brian Distelburger
[00:49:20] S2: Listen. That... It's a it's a hot take that I double plus agree on, so I like it. Max? [00:49:27] S3: My head's constantly thinking about AI, so that's where it's going right now. But I I I think the hot take is that things are gonna be a lot better after... Kind of this next five years, I would say, is gonna be very hard from a transition perspective. But on the other side, I actually think we'll end up in a better equilibrium than where we are today. I think there are a few... A lot of kind of, like, the graphs and stuff will show, like, whether it's like a takeoff or the doomer graph where everything's gonna fall apart or everything's gonna be perfect utopia. I think it's gonna be somewhere in the middle, but I actually think it's gonna be a healthier equilibrium. And I think potentially this moment of social media and then AI, in hindsight, will look more disruptive as one of the most disruptive periods to, like, human psychology and civilization. And on the other side, things might actually end up feeling a lot simpler, and this applies to politics and a lot of other areas, but I'm very optimistic about the future. I think it's gonna be a lot of challenging next few years, five years, but contrarily, I think on the other side, things could look pretty good. [00:50:35] S0: I'll give you one more. [00:50:37] S2: Yay, Brian. Love an extra.
00:50:37 · Alexa von Tobel, Brian Distelburger, Max Shaw
[00:50:37] S2: Yay, Brian. Love an extra. [00:50:39] S0: Apple is gonna be a leader in AI within the year... Within a year. I think Siri is gonna be awesome, and the experience using your iPhone or all those different devices is gonna be better than any experience we have today using any of the different models. [00:50:59] S2: That's... I I... First of I love it. Guys, what a pleasure. I absolutely clearly am rooting for you. I... It's such a privilege that we get to work together. I I I know we made the promise that one day we will ring the bell together, but I am excited for when Windmill is a wildly successful company elevating people, which is really what you guys are doing. And as somebody who is deeply inspired, I really care about that. And I'm so grateful that this is your mission, and can't wait to see what you guys build. So thank you. You're the best. [00:51:33] S3: Thank you. Thanks, Alexa. [00:51:36] S2: Thank you all so much for tuning in today. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate, review, subscribe. We'll be back again with another episode of Inspired with Alexa von Tobel. Thank you.