George Kailas

This is a trick question. Kobayashi Maru this one. No conflict is unreasonable, swallow your pride and take full responsibility for whatever is at the root of the conflict. Even if you are 0% responsible. Be thoughtful and genuine in your apology. Harmony is more important than “being right.” Always.

Operators obsessing about their perceived value and not enough about the value of the whole are not great operators. So the questions actually well explains the core problem. Early in my career I was so focused on making my work the best it could be I didn’t care enough about others. Operations are more about maximizing the value of the whole team. If you are obsessing about being “undervalued”no matter the work you are doing independently, it is unlikely you are being the best teammate. I think if you take a step back and find out how to be more harmonious with your surroundings you will be appreciated as an operator more.

Resiliency is the most important thing in business and life. Anything that can be classified as a failure can also be framed as a learning experience. Take the lessons and move forward. Embodying resilience the most would be learning a new skill and saying to yourself you will emerge better. Find the confidence in that and visualize it effectively and it will become a new reality where you’ve built yourself better and stronger. After all it didn’t kill you or you wouldn’t be reading this :)

Respectfully as well, I think customers are evolving and they will continue to demand more. If you are not in position to satisfy those demands you aren’t in position to provide a good return to investors. I believe the ethical responsibility to my shareholders is maximizing their return while minimizing their risk. In my estimation you aren’t properly weighing some risks that I find to be paramount.

I’ve been in AI for 13 years and strategy is just about the last thing I could imagine using AI for. As humans helping AI’s understand strategy is what makes predictive pipelines effective. The primary tenant of the best AI’s are nonlinear “thinking” that definitionally we cannot comprehend. And a strategy built without fully understanding all the components is a bad strategy.

As a founder prioritizing building a business with a double bottom line, I do not care much about traditional competitive structures. I keyed on this because ethics is paramount as long as genuine best efforts were made I would not mind business or product overlap. In my estimation investors, ourselves and the other entity would all win in the more important game of brand identity. By showing we are all willing to prioritize the customer and behave ethically on a larger scale you prove the most important thing to potential users. The Bezos model of putting the customer first and making them feel valued wins in today's world more than ever.