⭐ We Tried GLP-1. Here's What Actually Happened. | Meg & Amy

I was reflecting a bit about the community and there's a lot of people in the influencer list that are from our PeopleSoft days, right? And we kind of talked a little bit about the concept of the PeopleSoft mafia versus the PayPal mafia.

And to extend that even just to the entire HR tech community, there's really just such a big contrast for me, especially when I think about a recent book I read, Meg, which you've read as well, which is How to Rule the World by a recent Stanford grad, kind of unpacking what's going on with the Stanford inside Stanford.

And it's a little bit dystopian, to be quite honest, and a little scary just in terms of the money that's pouring into teenagers, building companies, the underlying corruption that comes about.

And anyway, I was really thinking about how the HR tech group is so contrasting to that.

William Tincup had a really nice piece about how everyone who's talking about the list is appreciating each other and the community and the broader power of the group rather than any sort of individual ego.

Yeah, I even felt that a little

bit.

We were both at the Acadian Summit in San Diego recently, which was also a great community of people in the HR tech space.

And it was very clear to me that there's just an above-average group of intellect there, but in addition, above-average heart-centered focus.

The thing that... is so inspiring to me.

I have always been of the belief that our mission, our reason, is to improve the world of work.

And if you believe that that's your purpose in being part of the HR technology community, then you approach...

the community differently, especially people that you might see as natural competitors.

Because at the end of the day, it's really about serving customers.

And sure, every one of these businesses is trying to do the best to grow their business.

But I believe that the addressable problem is bigger than the individual competitors companies.

And therefore, I think it is great to have a network and a community that spans multiple of these companies, even ones that are natural competitors.

And so it was really fun at that Acadian Summit to also be in a room where people that are typically competing with each other on the product side are also coming together to ask the question of what does work need to be in the future and where is technology going to be able to help? And so I think, you know, Amy, like it's a big part of why we do this show is to really imagine how work should exist in the future and to do that in a way that creates opportunity and creates ability for flourishing for the humans in our care.

When you contrast that to the Stanford exposé, I worry a little bit that we used to have a whole lot of innovation talking about making the world a better place.

And we've somehow seem to have shifted to innovation to make founders wealthy.

That doesn't work for me.

So I'm not against people becoming wealthy, obviously, but I do believe that our missions need to be grounded in something that is a little more purposeful.

So I hope that this is an example that shines past just the HR tech community.