Autodesk

“To your point, it'll change everything, like we're working with Autodesk on Maya so you can imagine architecture, industrial design pretty much any field you can have a co-pilot for everything.”

“I've been a radical independent most of my life. I lean left, obviously.”

“In the world of hyper automation that we were heading into, Just being a design software company, which is what we were back then, wasn't gonna be enough. We had to be a design and make software company. We had to extend ourselves across the process.”

“We're very passionate about killing our own businesses, killing our own products, which we are very passionate. I think that's a cultural norm in the company”

“You learn a set of skills that you, is really hard to learn in a larger company, because everybody's being so careful in a larger company, or they're being so political, or all these things. All of that's stripped away in a startup. You're just trying to survi…”

“And you can't believe how many people I've had in my office that try to convince me impulsiveness is a virtue. And they're confusing impulsiveness with boldness or decisiveness. Impulsiveness is actually without thought.”

“For six months, no major strategic decisions were made at the company.”

“We built our own custom AI models off of data that we have from our customers.”

“I go home every night thinking I do something that's useful to the world. I don't go home thinking I screwed up teenagers' minds. I don't go home thinking I screwed up the whole publishing industry. I don't go home with any of those feelings. I go home feeling…”

“The further something is away from your business, the harder it is for you to get to it over a period of time and build it. Cause usually what you wanna do is do, do hops and hops, but if you take a big leap, sometimes you leap too far and it's really hard to …”

“We actually coined the phrase generative design 10 years ago.”

“Carl, on the other hand, would create hundreds of these. He'd let them pop up everywhere. To the point that it would stress the company's ability to execute. Carl's style was much more let a thousand flowers bloom and maybe never prune a single flower.”

“It works much better at smaller companies than it would ever work at a large company, right?”

“Everything that you see in the world, the cars that you see on the roads, the bridges they drive over, the machines that you see, the phone, The buildings, it's built and designed using our software.”

“I think three quarters of the leadership team was either, either, you know, left on their own or were asked to leave.”