Lightspeed

We're talking about the From Ketchup to Kimchi survey that was carried out.

It was Lightspeed.

They're a kind of a hospitality payments leader and they've been surveying about 2,000 people you know about this about the kind of the traditional things that make up the sunday roast and one of the findings they discovered was that it's the younger generation that are switching things up by by adding the likes of the kimchi and the and the hot sauce to the traditional lunch and mayonnaise as was mentioned as well dean diplock is the executive chef of the brafey house resort in county mayo is the sunday roast still an attractive option there dean

Absolutely.

We're moving into an artificial intelligence age.

I'm on the board of a company called Lightspeed.

We're going to be building houses with robots.

So people are rightly concerned about what that's going to mean for their jobs let's say if you're in the construction industry etc and you know one of the things that may very well happen my friends in the ai industry are saying maybe we'll be moving to a four-day work week you know it used to be people worked six days a week for 60 hours and then it was it was 50 and that was 45 and 44 40 right now it's about 36. so you know on the one hand you know working less and having more leisure is a good thing but Sometimes I worry too much leisure may not be such a good thing.

David Fung spent 23 years in tech, most recently as a senior director at Salesforce, where he led sales engineering teams through hypergrowth, reorganizations, and sudden market shifts, picking up three President Club awards along the way.

Today, he's an executive coach and the founder of Coachful Coaching, working with leaders at organizations like Amazon, EA Games, Globant, and Lightspeed Commerce.

He has spoken at tech leadership conferences and hosts the Coachful Coaching Leadership Podcast.

His focus is the gap most leaders never look at, the distance between the clarity they think they're projecting and the confusion their team is actually living in.

120? Yeah.

Whether that's Toast, whether that's Square, whether that's Lightspeed, Zonal, etc.

Whether it's Seven Shifts, whether it's like Harry, you name it, Market Man, Suppy.

Restaurant 365.

A new report shows Kiwi retail spending is being reshaped, not reduced, but pet spending surged over 50%, even as shoppers cut back elsewhere.

Joining us now, Nicole Buisson, Managing Director International at Lightspeed.

Nicole, obviously you can't tell us why we're spending all this money on pets, but you've brought the data forward, you've taken a good look at it.

at what light speeds customers are seeing through the tills, right? So why pets?

More options for customers.

Nicole Burson there from

Lightspeed, Managing Director, International, with some

really interesting data there about what we're spending on.

Every single American fund is already here.

Nowadays, a founder doesn't have to go to the Bay Area to raise money from Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Sequoia, Iconic.

Obviously, Accel's been here for 25 years.

Index has been here for 25 years.