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Tony Jamous

Tony Jamous

Aug 18, 2026

10:54
Mm-hmm.
10:54
And that c- has a compounding effect.
10:57
So, first they ha- you have to, you have to get them to that point in order for them to change.
11:00
Secondly, is you have to train them, uh, or give them the, the, the, the method of how do you do that.
11:09
And for me, what I learned was, A, you have to default to assuming best intent.
11:16
When you're getting a thought that this employee might not have the best intent, might not be working as hard as I want them to work, might not be in front of their computer and using their keyboard, and, uh, uh, y-you have to let go of that thought.
11:35
You have to let go of that thought, and you have to come back to assuming best intent.

17 MINS LATER

28:11
What are y'all-- I wanna get off the topic just a second, but what's, what are y'all doing? What's the company up to these days?
0:22
Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about Oyster?
0:25
Hey, Josh, thank you for having me today.
0:28
And let me first start introducing myself.
0:31
So as you said, I'm now the executive chairman and founder of Oyster.
0:37
But my story started, the Oyster story started actually when I left my home country, Lebanon.
0:42
I was born in Lebanon.
0:44
I had to leave when I was in my teenage years to France, to study computer science.

5 MINS LATER

5:54
This new idea of really becoming a strategic workforce platform, strategic workforce partner.

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