Nick Persico

@MichaelKudrna You either don’t know the definition of vertical integration or you don’t know what Sysco does

Exclusive | Sysco, the biggest U.S. food distributor to restaurants, hospitals and schools, is nearing a deal to buy family-owned Restaurant Depot for roughly $29 billion on.wsj.com/47q5s84

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We've raised our $38M Series B, led by @BessemerVP, with HubSpot Ventures and @SalesforceVC joining. Over 2,000 companies (including @HubSpot, @clickup, @useapolloio) build on @recallai, the API for meeting recording.

For the last couple weeks I've been on an "Management Sabbatical" – a term I dubbed for where I'm working full-time, but on none of my typical leadership/management type work. Instead, I'm getting to just explore ideas and reconnect with some IC work. Almost no calls/meetings, just Maker Time – for nearly the whole summer. Couldn't be more excited about it! I decided to do this since the timing seemed perfect: - We split our big Product/Eng team into 6 smaller teams at EOY (I'll write more about this re-org later), and those teams are now fully up-and-running - We recently got back from our Paris all-company retreat where the whole company got increased clarity/alignment around product vision & roadmap - Some key leadership hires on my team were hired and fully onboarding recently, and doing great. - With AI, there's never been a more exciting time to just build! What exactly am I up to? - Deeper exploration of AI Coding Agents - Getting re-acquainted with some more modern coding practices and actually shipping code on @Close again - Exploring other creative ideas that may be impactful to the business - Whatever else seems interesting :) I expect this time of being less-busy will be refreshing, give me better perspective, and ultimately help me come back as a better Leader. Very grateful for the full support from @Steli & @anemitz and other EPD leadership coworkers to give me space to do this!