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I'm an instinct founder. so every decision i make i have to bounce it against how do i really feel about this. if someone rubs me the wrong way, if they're not a right partner for me, they have to make a decision. staoeufpls it is is a tough decision. >> blythe, congratulations on all the success stella and dot has had. it is truly amazing. you have seen this from the very early stages to being where you are. what's one piece of advice you have? >> so my top piece of advice is to really cultivate creativity. it's so easy to just get focused on execution when you're in a really high-growth envi...

And our design team came up with this amazing mural that made our office so much nicer. and someone came up with a fund birthday hat you would hang over people when it was their birthday, which helped with culture. i think that is a good way to do it. what do you think, blythe? >> yeah. i think you're touching on two really key things that you can do to cultivate creativity. one is around time management. so it's really important to just carve out some white space like a hack-a-thon so your team has the ability to sort of switch out of their executive functioning brain into their real imaginat...

To find out that the 120 days didn't get the job done because we were waiting to figure out how the order could be properly enforced. and so, i'd be very interested in that. on the cyber front, director cardillo, i know among other things, your organization has conducted what you've called hack-a-thons, or at least been called hack-a-thons. what does that do in terms of bringing others into the discussion of how we protect ourselves better from these cyber attacks? >> sure. thank you, senator. so, we're quite proud at nga of our history of support to the community and to you, but through predo...

Within the science community. what exactly are they doing? >> it's not just a movement. it's a frenzied movement happening across the country. even in canada. we are talking about scientists and researchers at several universities there organizing hack a-thons to pull publicly available data from databases and transferring huge amounts of information to secure websites. the fear, the incoming administration's denial of climate change may mean data will disappear from government websites. >> we are going to end the epa intrusion into your lives. i will also cancel all wasteful climate change sp...

Is providing aid, but is it more useful than a college education? >> why not major in computer science at mit? >> if you talk to most employers, they feel there's a skills gap between what universities are teaching and what software engineers need to know day today. >> they focus on theory without giving the practical skills they need to build real projects. >> the trend you can watch is the collegiate hack-a-thon where you have 1,000 students giving up weekend and sleep and it feels broken for them to do this on the weekend. here we're saying here's two weeks of a hack-a-thon. build cool thin...