Ryan Hogan

Embrace The Suck

CEO Hunt A Killer.

Navy Reservist.

 

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Update: No Update

April 10, 2020 By Ryan Hogan Leave a Comment

Screenshot from the week three all-company update video.

Last week I went for a socially-distanced bike ride with our Director of Customer Acquisition, Ryan Sandrew. He’s great about candid feedback, so I asked how informed he felt about our overall response to COVID-19 and our subsequent plans. Sandrew explained that while he felt informed, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s Stay-at-Home announcement earlier in the week left him and his team with many questions. And while he assumed the impact to our Baltimore supply-chain was minimal-to-none, he didn’t really know. Sandrew remarked that, “even updates where you say there is no update would be helpful.” 

He’s right.

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Hurry Up And Wait

March 26, 2020 By Ryan Hogan Leave a Comment

AWS2 Hogan in front of an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter in Thailand (2008)

Much of our team’s effort over the last five days will never see the light of day. The actions we are taking will fade without any immediate quantitative results—and I’m OK with that. We are working diligently on planning for unexpected scenarios and preparing for events that may never come to pass.

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