Will Bryk: preference

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…What's the, yeah. So like just generally, I think, uh, EXA has a very interesting company building vibe. Like you, you have a meme Lord CTO, um, I guess, I don't know. Like, and, and you, you have, you just generally, um, are counter consensus in a bunch of things. What is the culture at EXA? Like, yeah, I, me and Jeff are, I mean, we've been best friends. It's like, like we met, like met like first day of college. I've been best friends ever since. And we have a really good vibe. I think that's like intense, but also really fun. And like, like funny, honestly, we have a ton of like, we just laugh a lot, a ton at EXA. And I think that's just like, you see that in every part of our culture. We don't really care about how the world sees anything. Like me and Jeff are just like that. Like, we're just thinking really just like, like, what should we do here? Like, what do we need? And so in the nap pod case, it was like, people get tired a lot when they're coding or doing anything really. And like, why can't we just sleep here or, or like nap? And, uh, okay, if we need a nap, then we should get a nap pod. It's crazy to me that there aren't nap pods in lots of companies because like I get tired all the time. I take a nap like every other day, probably for like 20 minutes. I'm actually never actually napping. I'm just thinking about a problem, but closing my eyes really like, um, first of all, it makes me come up with more creative solutions. And then also actually it gives me some rest. So, which is awesome. Google was the original company that had the nap pods at work, right? Oh, okay.…

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