The world needs people and machines as partners
Today the work runs one way. A person asks. The machine answers. The person checks the answer. Then the person asks again.
In the sea it is different. Coral and algae are two species that live as one. The algae feed the coral. The coral shelters the algae. Neither lives well alone.
That is the model. We are building a new inter-species context. The two species are humans and machines.
Machines are learning from our work. We need to see what they are doing. When humans and machines can see each other’s work, we do better together.
Picture a Tuesday. The night’s work is done before anyone wakes. Nobody copies numbers from one screen to another. The first meeting starts with a decision.
Machines don’t sleep. People know what matters.
The moment is now
AI is reaching every job in every company. Nobody opts out.
Electricity reached every factory. The phone reached every pocket. This will reach every desk faster than either.
The question is not whether people and machines will work together. It is how. Most companies bolt AI onto the old way of working. One more tool. One more tab. One more thing to check. That locks the old way in.
What can be imagined, can be achieved
We know where this is going. We mean to get the world there faster. So we question every assumption and every timeline, and we build from first principles. We are not building a slightly better yesterday.
Beat the timeline
In October I went to the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team’s Parachute School. At the Army’s parachute school, the five qualifying jumps take five days. Storms grounded us for most of the week. We made four jumps in one day.
What is possible is what you believe is possible.
Raise the bar
Many companies talk about high standards. Few walk them. High standards cost something. Weak leaders won’t pay.
The school walked them every day. They pushed us, they pushed us hard. And we? We pushed ourselves harder.
Five jumps. No one hesitated at the door.
If you lead people, your bar becomes their ceiling.
Time to wear the jump boots
We are hiring the first team. In person, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I have built four companies. I never gave in, and I never will.
Give it your all. That’s the job.
What would you hand a machine tomorrow if you could see what it did with it?