The speaker says they needed to serve as CEO of AIE after it became a global conference organization, rather than split their time between part-time employment at Cognition and AIE.

“Worked there for six months, and then stepped back to be an advisor because AIE is now, you know, a global-”

“... conference, conference organization, and I, I had to be CEO. I couldn't be part-time employee, part-time here. Cognition is very big. Fireworks is very big. Modal is very big.”