“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

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    “All the engineers said my “screen door on a submarine” was “stupid” and would “sink the ship”, so I fired them and hired new engineers!”

    • CEO of now defunct “Screen Door Subs Inc.”
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      speaking of submarines, this is the exact line of thinking that turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean

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      I told AI to build me a submarine out of titanium carbon fiber.

      • Stockton Rush (if he were alive today)
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          Damnit, I knew that too. I stopped skimming too early in the Wiki paragraph.

          The entire pressure vessel for the crew used five major components: two hemispherical titanium end caps, two matching titanium interface rings, and the 142 cm (56 in) internal diameter, 2.4-meter-long (7.9 ft) carbon fiber-wound cylindrical hull.[15] The forward hemispherical end cap could be detached from its interface ring, becoming a hatch that allowed crew members to enter the crew compartment before a mission, and exit at its conclusion.[3]