Caldwell

"I graduated and did what every mechanical engineer reasonably would do and immediately left the field and went straight into startups?"

"you're involved in a lot of conversations"

"60 to 70% of my day just actually managing execution...writing product documentation, converting it into Jira, checking it with the engineers."

"You got to be able and willing to learn basically anything."

"You get to span work across the company from very high-level strategy pieces to very detailed work, like reviewing code with engineers."

"It's it's it takes a lot of effort to stay focused. You know across the organization."

"I got to do something that I thought was actually good and that's really fun."

"You have to be a little bit of an optimist. You're taking a high-risk, high-reward thing, and there are tons of challenges."

"Protecting the operational team is is something that's really valuable not just to achieve a staff but really anyone who's not directly managed."

"It's the their inherently a little chaotic. So what I did was just kind of start. Working for companies that I thought were interesting in any way"

"Working 80 hour weeks for a year straight is not a good recipe for a good second year."

"It's really hard to accomplish something on your own and so understanding how to set up a team...is really important"

"I think it's...give me the opportunity to sort of use that pleasure privilege to help Focus that aren't in the same position."