Shawn Wang: evaluation

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…Remember our hat trick. This one was more like the money one which you know it's funny because I think developers are like quite uninterested in money. Isn't it weird? Yeah I mean I think like I don't know if this is just the nature of our company like you know I think there's something you said like there's all like the San Francisco AI companies and like everyone's like hyping each other like on the tech and everything which is like great the tech's really important. We're here in Mountain View beautiful office we just really care about like actually driving value and making money which is kind of like a core part of the company. I think maybe the selfish way of saying that or like a little more of the selfless way is like yeah we can be kind of like this VC funded company forever but ultimately speaking you know if we actually want to transform the way software happens we need this part of the business that's cash regenerative that enables us to actually invest tremendously in the software and that needs to be durable cash be cash that like churns the next year and we want to set ourselves up to be a company that is durable and can actually solve these problems.…

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