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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
31 Aug 2025 Lenny's Podcast How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“I don't know if forcing's the right word, but encouraging people to play with the latest stuff and giving them a chance to take days off or block out calendars, cancel meetings, just stay on top of this stuff to play as you talked about it.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 31 Aug 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I hadn't heard that before, but that completely resonates. Okay, let me try to reflect back some of the advice I've been hearing about how to shift a company to be successful in this new world, and let me see if I'm missing anything that you think is really important. So, one is there's this sense of just reset the expectations on pace and urgency and help people understand in AI things move incredibly fast, this is how we need to operate. Then there's also a piece of get stuff out so that you can learn how people use it and what it's capable of versus polishing it endlessly. Forcing people almost ... I don't know if forcing's the right word, but encouraging people to play with the latest stuff and giving them a chance to take days off or block out calendars, cancel meetings, just stay on top of this stuff to play as you talked about it. Then sharing things they've learned, get the vibes of what's possible. Yeah.…
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