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Brad Rothenberg testimonial transcript
Exact caption transcript for the approved 2:24 video. Timestamps identify each spoken cue; the contextual disclosures below are editorial and are not part of Brad's recorded words.
Spoken transcript
43 caption cues · timestamps preserved
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Well, my confidence level is extremely high because you've
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enabled me to feel comfortable in my communication with
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Codex, teaching me to talk in a different way—ask
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questions as opposed to give directives.
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And even after we finished our session, I spent a lot of time
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doing more work because I felt comfortable enough to dig deeper.
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And let me tell you, for somebody with my generation to have confidence
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going into, uh, an AI system is remarkable.
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It's nothing I would have ever expected.
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For somebody like me, the frustration of not knowing how to
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dig deeper to get the information is an inhibitor at work.
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And that inhibitor has gone away entirely.
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I suddenly feel like I have a facility that I never
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imagined having.
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I'm currently operating on a $500,000 budget annually.
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And I can confidently say that I'll raise $2 million
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based on the work that we've done together, because you've radically
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increased my donor lists, my potential donor list.
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And I think that without any effort, I could
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20× that $500,000.
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The challenge would be for me to figure out how to deploy that.
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So it would take me some time to put the pieces together to deploy the
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$10 million. But I could get there based on the amount of the
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way we've aggregated information and made it easier for me to do the job
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of fundraising.
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These five lists generated by Codex and
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working with you took less than an
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hour in total,
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While if I had to do this myself, even with
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a staff member helping me, we would have taken up a full week's
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work—a 40-hour workweek of time—to create these
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lists. And I'm also certain that some of these lists would have fallen
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by the wayside because we would have had to prioritize which ones
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mattered because this isn't our day job.
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The easiest part about working with Seth is while he
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is incredibly capable and knowledgeable about the products that he's
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sharing, he speaks and communicates with me in
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a way that is
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easy to understand. He's not lost in language
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that would be off-putting.
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He understands that my
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ability and confidence in working with Codex was very, very limited.
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And he quickly got me up to speed by speaking, quote, my language.