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Avalon Smith

Sep 10, 2026

26:56
[laughs]
26:56
I think, um, I think, you know, I mean, I come across sort of like two, two fields of, of heads of, of sort of tech where, where I'm sitting.
27:03
One is the sort of person who's in the room when the strategy's set.
27:06
Uh, you know, they're not informed afterwards.
27:08
They're part of that decision-making process because they're, they're a more forward-thinking organization that sort of says, "Okay, well, you know, sort of what is it we need to do?" Et cetera.
27:16
But you still do have probably 50% of them that I speak to who, you know, technology still sits under a budget, and it's thought of as that way as, as, you know, sort of a fixer of problems rather than a sort of like a, a, somebody you can rely on to sort of like come up with the solutions to the things you wanna do next.
27:32
And they, they definitely sit in two, two camps under my, you know, from my experience of speaking to people.

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47:33
Yeah.

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