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I will say that Menlo is, it's some part
for me a personally selfish journey.

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I wanted to create a place first and

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foremost that I wanted
to come to every day.

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And so a lot of what you see at
Menlo today, the big wide open room,

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the flexible workspace,

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the people working in pairs all day long,
the noise and the energy,

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the space, the focus on keeping human
energy up as high as we can possibly go on

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a consistent and regular basis throughout
the day, first and foremost, energizes me.

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And I find that when people see an
energized leader, especially one who can

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clearly communicate a vision for where
we are heading as a company, it becomes

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an infectious kind of enthusiasm that
permeates the entire organization.

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Now, you have to communicate that vision,
you have to let people know

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where are we headed, why are we going
in this direction, what's its purpose?

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And by me as a leader,
continually communicating that

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message to our team and reinforcing it,
not just through words, but

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through every practice inside the company,
everything we do that

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speaks both verbally and physically
to what we're trying to accomplish.

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And what's neat for
me is when visitors come in to see us,

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and we'll have over 4000 people this year
alone just walk in our doors to come and

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see what it is we've created.

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I will often walk in the door with them to
Menlo, and I can hear it on their lips.

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They open the door, and they say wow,

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because they can feel
the palpable energy in the room.

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And quite frankly, I get that feeling
every day I walk in the door, and

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I think everybody who walks in to
work at Menlo gets that same feeling.