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Jo Thomas

Jo Thomas

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Jul 21, 2026

26:44
What is the most important thing that that experience has given you that has changed the way that you think?
26:52
I, I think, I think that building a startup focuses your mind on what matters in a way that in a mature organization can actually be very difficult, and you have such resource constraints that you just have to do the things that will move the needle.
27:22
And so, you know, I'd thought there would be this almost infinite freedom in building a startup, but it...
27:30
And there is, but actually you end up having to say no a thousand times more often because there's just not the money or the person or the time, um, to do it.
27:42
And I think that the flip side is you end up having to be unbelievably flexible.
27:50
So my CTO is extraordinary.
27:53
So she is a software engineer.
31:48
Like, what's your perspective on what's working well in terms of our kind of local startup market, and also maybe where the opportunities are that are kind of untapped at the moment?

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