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Hey, everyone. So my name is Derek Steer.

I was the founder and CEO of Mode.

I'm going to be talking about really one thing, which is the thing I think you need to focus on above all of the problems that you may see out there in your businesses. But, you know, I had the Beatty title, so you're all here.

My background really fast, so I started my career in economic consulting.

I studied economics in school.

I went on to work in tech at Facebook first and then at Yammer,

both before and after the acquisition.

And in those jobs, you know, I was doing analytical jobs with those companies.

And I noticed something, which is that both of them were building internal tools.

They kind of were fed up with the stuff that was, like, available out on the mass market,

wanted to work in a different way, and so they built stuff on their own.

And if you looked around like all the other companies, Google, LinkedIn, the ones that

were really good in the way that they work with data, they were doing the same thing.

They were building their own tools.

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