“However there is a widespread downside. There is a villain within the room, and the villain is straightforward. It is the outdated guard. It is what you permit inside your self. It is all of the work that you simply’re not doing.”
Along with diversifying revenue sources, Perez famous that the brand new guard would be capable of deliver each a youthful perspective, in addition to the perspective of individuals with totally different backgrounds.
“I bear in mind my first board assembly,” he stated. “There have been two folks of their 40s within the room. I occurred to be one in all them. And so they stated to me, ‘Eddy, have you learnt why you are right here?’ I imply, you guys voted and put me on right here, however you realize, I did not know. And he stated, ‘Once we speak in regards to the outdated guard and what wants to alter, this business is just too pale, male, stale and frail, and also you’re solely male.’”
He stated the idea of the outdated guard has much less to do with a particular age and extra to do with a mindset that isn’t prepared to alter with the occasions.
“That mindset hangs on, that stays on, that holds folks again,” Perez stated. “I’ll see at sure occasions how persons are actually, actually down or they received’t come out on the final second. That’s the villain. The outdated guard aren’t dangerous folks. It’s only a mindset. It has nothing to do with age. It has to do with, did you evolve?
