What was the most challenging part of that pivot, and what sort of drew you into being that translation layer for small businesses?

Well, I have to give a bit of background.

So after I got my doctorate, I didn't wanna stay in academia at all, but where does an astrophysicist go if they're not at a university? I just threw out a lot of resumes.

At the time it was a CV 'cause I didn't know what a resume was.

[laughs] And turns out, if you can do math and science, places will hire you, which is how I got into the DC area.

I got put in cyber security.

I was just looking for a job, and I thought, "Why would you guys do this?" [laughs] They put me in data science, but they put me in a cyber department, and they said, "Jen, can you learn this?" And I thought, "You know what? I'll give this a whirl.

What has been the most chaotic part of building Gen AI Group?