Digital & Dirt
01:55:37 · Ian Dallimore, Craig Brommers, Doug Zarkin
[01:55:37] S0: Yeah. Side note, I forgot to even mention this. My wife, before she opened her high end boutique years later, she was a manager at the local American Eagle store. And I just remember that moment, this is this is pretty cool. That's awesome. So last few questions. Oftentimes data is overthought. It's overthinked, but it feels like sometimes you guys just kind of make the decision that just says, like, we just need to go for this idea. [01:55:59] S7: Yeah. I always try to tell myself and my team, data informed, but not necessarily data led. And it is about the art and science. And I think that you wouldn't have necessarily created the phenomenon of Sydney's Sweeney Has Great Genes if it was just about data. You wouldn't have identified Ella Langley and taken a little bit of a bet on where country music is going if you just relied on data. So I would say to our listeners here today is be informed as much by heart and by gut as data. And obviously, there's moments to fact check yourself and in moments that we've lived through recently to validate that you actually are on the right path. But I think that the hard thing about if you only look at data, so many other people are looking at the same data. Sure. You're not [01:56:47] S10: going to stand out in a unique and differentiated way.
01:56:47 · Doug Zarkin, Ian Dallimore, David Sable, Raj Lala, Craig Brommers, Jim Norton
[01:56:47] S10: going to stand out in a unique and differentiated way. [01:56:49] S0: Yeah, the exact same that David ended the podcast where he talked about how AI and creativity can create complacency of things. Yeah. That's right. Absolutely. That's huge. Well, look, my friend, this was a pleasure. I'm blown about... Blown away by the work that you've done, and I know you got more to come. So I'm excited to see where where you continue to guide American Eagle. So... [01:57:06] S9: Thank you [01:57:06] S8: very much. [01:57:07] S7: Stay tuned. The thing that we try to tell ourselves inside now is the whole world [01:57:10] S9: is on the edge of their seat [01:57:11] S0: to [01:57:11] S6: see We we will try to do [01:57:14] S7: got to keep on talking to ourselves and that will be [01:57:16] S6: the game going forward. [01:57:17] S0: What an exciting job. [01:57:19] S10: Thanks, dude. Appreciate it. [01:57:20] S0: Thanks. Appreciate Thanks for listening to this episode of Digital & Dirt. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Follow us on social media for the latest updates, and stay tuned for our next episode.