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So instead of prompting and hoping, you ask once and ship it. Check out HubSpot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. Let me give you a Jeff Bezos quote. I don't know if you saw this interview. Neil's about to fall asleep, but it's okay, guys. I got you. C&EC one? No, he, um, I forgot where it was. It was with Walter Isaacson who wrote the Elon Musk biography. So he said this. I thought this is really interesting. So Jeff Bezos said, never hire your friends if you're under 40, but after 40, always hire your friends. And so with Blue Origin right now, he has an executive that was sitting next to him that worked with him for 20 years or so. He's like, I could have chosen like a better partner to work with on this.

And Neil, let's think about this.

If we think about some of the people that we work with now, that we work, then we're both over 40 now, right? So do you think this rings true? because I tend to think that after 40,

you kind of know what you want and what you don't want,

and you know who you trust and who you don't trust.

So what do you think? because I tend to think that after 40, you kind of know what you want and what you don't want

and you know who you trust and who you don't trust. So what do you think?

So I would say for me particularly in my 20s, I made way too many mistakes with hiring as well.

In my 30s, I made less. But now that I'm in my 40s and I'm still young, I'm 41, I kind of know what's

a good fit, what's not a good fit, what works, who will work. And I still make mistakes,

but my chances of making mistakes are a lot less. And what I found is a lot of the people I've

worked with over the years that I've learned to trust

and I've enjoyed working with them. They're good at what they do and I would work again with them,

but they were first colleagues and now they're friends, right? But they started off as colleagues

and I would work with a lot of them all over again. You know what? I think about, for example, like, today you're sick, right? But we're supposed to record with Noah. So Noah, I've known for a while, right? And so, you know, it's like, it's tried and trusted. Like, I know how he's going to do. I know what to predict. And I know he's reliable, like he's going to show up on time. And so that's what it is.

And I know sometimes he might forget a thing or two when it comes to recording.

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