The founders started a company with Bill to tackle something complex. As it grew to four programs, they created a bi-weekly "Octave" meeting where teams sync and coordinate, borrowing musical language to keep everyone aligned.
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I mean, Bill and I started this company because we thought it was so challenging and so complex, it would take everything we had ever learned, but it would be worth it if we are able to do what we say we're going to do. So this is not, you know, a walk in the park. This is not going to be a walk in the park for me. The major thing in this company is we have, as I said, these four very different programs. And how are we going to keep people talking together? Actually Maurice and Mike were great about talking about how do we do this and Julia and Mike came up with this, we're called Octave, which is a musical term, they call it orchestra. So every other week we have an orchestra meeting where we see how we can work in concert and we talk about what everybody is doing. So we're trying to— so for us that's the biggest challenge right now. How do, as we scale, how do we keep connected?