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Sam Gardner

Aug 11, 2026

4:00
Yeah,
4:00
absolutely.
4:01
Happily.
4:01
So I had a four-year-old son.
4:04
It's 2021.
4:06
One, he has lived through a pandemic with us as parents.
4:11
We're stressed out.

14 MINS LATER

18:25
was,
2:43
How would you describe that coalition, that correlation, that synergy you guys have been able to create?
2:48
It's been great.
2:48
You know, we're really fortunate across our two bowl games.
2:51
You know, we have a Pop-Tarts Bowl.
2:52
We also have the Citrus Bowl that we are working with all four of the Power Four conferences.
2:57
So we get to kind of highlight the best of each of them.
3:00
And you've essentially got, you know, in all four cases, basically the best non-CFP team from each conference that's coming to Orlando for a game.

6 MINS LATER

8:54
You guys put together a pretty awesome experience, right? So what is it that the coaches and players and the staff are ultimately experiencing when they come to the Pop-Tarts Bowl, right? They're going to SeaWorld, right? Give me the sequencing and the smorgasbord of awesomeness.
36:41
How would you describe that coalition, that correlation, that synergy you guys have been able to create?
36:46
It's been great.
36:46
You know, we're really fortunate across our two bowl games.
36:49
You know, we have a Pop-Tarts Bowl.
36:50
We also have the Citrus Bowl that we are working with all four of the Power 4 conferences.
36:55
So we get to kind of highlight the best of each of them.
36:58
And you've essentially got, you know, in all four cases, basically the best non-CFP team from each conference that's coming to Orlando for a game.

6 MINS LATER

42:52
You guys put together a pretty awesome experience, right? So what is it that the coaches and players and the staff are ultimately experiencing when they come to the Pop-Tarts Bowl, right? They're going to SeaWorld, right? Give me the sequencing and the smorgasbord of awesomeness.
6:21
What is a specific big goal that you tried to take on with AI? Because I do feel like a lot of people are still thinking too small and, like, what types of tasks you can give it.
6:30
Yeah.
6:30
So I think that, like, the way I'm starting to think about using AI is, like, it's getting really good at these, like, long-running tasks.
6:39
Um, if you ha- if AI has access to, like, tools, um, and some, like, background information with, like, a system prompt or a user prompt, and then you give it access to, like, tools and looping, um, that's where it can, like, really go off on its own and just, like, iterate on itself and, like, think through, like, a very hard and complex problem.
7:01
Um, that's where, like, I've started to, like, really do the most with it.
7:07
I'm trying to think of, like, specific problems or a tasklet where, like, that has happened.
7:14
It's very much true in, like, in the go-to-market space, like, we use, like, Salesforce, for example.

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33:19
I'm just curious like your take on it.
8:29
Oh
8:29
... um, my parents were amazing people, actually.
8:33
I've got a lot of compassion for both of them.
8:35
They've both passed away.
8:36
Uh, my dad, my, my dad when I was 16, my mum when I was 25.
8:39
But amazing people, and it's taken me a, a while to get to this conclusion, um, to understand this.
8:45
But there's no doubt about it that I was deeply loved.

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30:16
So can you just tell us a little bit about what it is to not have an anchor, not have a base, and what it is to leave the care system?

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