Robert Ta demos AI tools to 1,000 staff and admits what he doesn't know, sparking a shift where over 50% of the company starts using AI within two months. His openness about learning as he goes makes people feel permission to experiment.
I invited the whole D-list of product and engineering and I was like, hey guys, I'm going to show you how to use AI and that's it. And anybody else that wants to show the other people how to use AI, it's going to be raw, messy demos. That's all. And when I kicked it off, I literally said, I'm like in this position and nerd out about this stuff, but I don't think I know everything. And I think I feel kind of dumb about this. I literally said that in front of like 1,000 people or so. I was like, yeah, I don't think I know everything. And I want to be a student because the tools are changing every day. You have a new tweet or a new GitHub going viral and it's like suddenly the world's changed, right? So there is no way that one person will know everything. And so we all need to just put on our student hats. And guess what? Like 2 months later, everybody just started using it. And that then over 50% of the org just started using it simply because one of the most influential leaders at the company who's expected to know just admitted they don't know everything, but here is what I do know.
