Casey Zeman and a co-speaker discuss starting over after major setbacks. Life will hit you, they say. What matters is how you respond. They pivoted their business toward AI when the market forced them to, and they emphasize that resilience and quick adaptation are what separate people who survive disruption from those who don't.
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When I say like starting over, it's literally I had to start over on multiple areas of my life. Oh man.
People don't take stock in the fact that life can change so dramatically. It's not necessarily about that, that we're gonna have a, a cruised life, you know, we, we're gonna go through life without any bruises, but it's really about that, you know, what you do after you've gotten hit. You were hit hard. And, and in fact, I think a lot of people can relate to the fact that, that AI and changes in business, it happens. Happened so very fast, you know, we also dealt with our own same things happening in our, in our business, you know, because, you know, AI changed. So we, we had to pivot a lot of ways to build more AI into our platform and to go more AI-centric. So I feel this happened to everyone and it happened to you at the absolute wrong time. It seems like, like it happened at a really hard time, you know. Now, as I said, though, I think it's, it's about Once you get knocked down, what do you do after that?