Focused, Reputation, and AI with Austin Vance

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Bill Kennedy

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In this conversation, Bill Kennedy and Austin Vance discuss the critical role of relationships in business, the balance between AI and human interaction, and the importance of cultivating client trust. They explore how AI can enhance efficiency without replacing the human touch in consulting. The discussion also delves into pricing strategies in a changing economic landscape, the significance of legacy code, and the need for developers to maintain empathy towards existing systems. Ultimately,...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the R Labs podcast.
0:19.2	Our special guest today is Austin Vance.
0:23.6	Austin, man, thanks for hanging out with us today.
0:26.5	Thank you.
0:27.1	I'm super happy to be here.
0:28.2	It's going to be fun.
0:29.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:30.4	The time's going to fly by.
0:32.3	It happens to everybody.
0:33.3	So we're ready.
0:36.0	So, Austin, give everybody the two-minute spiel on what you're doing today.
0:41.5	Yeah, I'm the CEO founder of a company called Focused.
0:45.0	We are a software development agency with offices in Denver and Chicago.
0:51.6	Our specialization has always been in helping enable companies while we
0:56.2	build products for them. And so a lot of AI work right now, kind of doing both enabling how
1:02.6	to use and build with AI, but then also use AI as a developer to build better, faster,
1:08.9	stronger, if you will. That's been a lot of what we're up to.
1:12.9	How long have you been in business? I started the company, December of 2018. So I always say
1:21.1	2019, because that's really when the customers showed up. And if I say 2018, it adds a whole year
1:24.9	to our age. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. That's
1:28.7	fair. We'll get back to all that. This is really a show about you and sort of your journey on
1:34.7	sort of how you got here today with focus. So I got a couple of questions that I asked right out of the
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