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Will Hammond

Will Hammond

American American football player

Aug 21, 2026

9:34
Yeah, the execution part for me.
9:36
That's often a thing in businesses.
9:39
People...
9:41
I was thinking about a post the other day and I was, the idea of it is basically like efficiency is the enemy of, of great because you have a, there's a problem or whatever you, you train to solve it as quickly as possible, as opposed to, I call them advantage ideas.
9:59
So you're not to solve the problem, but that turn that into a business advantage.
10:02
Like you think about, um, Amazon web services, right.
10:06
Started as prime day.

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And
2:18
Here's Red Raider quarterback Will Hammond.
2:20
Fully recovered at this point.
2:22
Got cleared by the surgeon about three weeks ago, um, so great to have that, uh, verbal approval from him.
2:29
And, um, I would give it a high chance, um, that I'm out there, um, playing week one.
2:34
Obviously at this point it's still up to our training staff here.
2:38
Uh, they've got the last say.
2:40
Um, but physically I feel ready to go for week one, and I'm just excited to get back out there with the guys and get rolling.
5:46
Like, he, he, he wasn't, you know, he, uh, he had-
1:59
I can be ready to go and I can be what I was before or even better earlier than people think"?
2:06
Yeah.
2:06
I'll- I remember back in March during spring ball on the off days between practices, me and our trainer, we were doing our acceleration days, and I remember hitting 20.7 miles an hour, and that was like I think four months post-surgery.
2:21
I just remember thinking like, "If I can hit a new top speed faster than I'd ever hit before surgery throughout rehab, I can, I can come out of this stronger." So that was definitely a big realization for me.
2:35
And then I think the trend throughout rehab, it felt like every two weeks I would hit a big jump in rehab.
2:43
It felt like there was always some kind of plateau and then a big jump where like jumping felt easier or cutting felt easier or a new running drill felt, felt easier.
2:52
So, um, those, those little bits of gratification that you get throughout keep you going.

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... that people are missing when it comes to the Red Raiders?
40:10
Can you share a little bit about why you think that was smart and what that does?
40:16
So years ago, my mentor who taught me how to think, I asked him, I said, "What is advertising? What is marketing?" And he said, "Solving business problems with creativity." Right? Creativity, it's not about drawing and pictures.
40:30
It can be an idea, right? That is creativity or solu- problem-solving.
40:34
So great agency, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
40:38
Client when I was there, Emerald Nuts, they were a smaller player in the nut business, and the retail team was having difficulty getting, you know, shelf space and all those things, which is many a growing brand's challenge.
40:51
Um, you know, wouldn't take the calls, didn't take them seriously because they, you know, they didn't really know who they were.
40:56
It's, you know, Planters phones.

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You know, for the leaders that you work with and advise, what are the things that are most important for them to be thinking about in this AI-enabled world that we all are a part of and will continue to evolve and adapt through? What, what should they be thinking about most keenly?

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