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The best career advice I’ve received was from Jeff Holden who told me to “never fail silently.” This has stuck with me because it speaks to being ambitious and taking risks, but also working proactively and transparently to minimize risk, two of our core values at Hungryroot. At times we will fail, and that’s okay. We are pursuing an ambitious mission — to lead the grocery industry in using AI to help people live better, healthier lives. But failing silently is not okay. It means not recognizing or clearly communicating when something is not going well. We will face challenges, and as long as we are proactive and transparent, we can work as a team to solve them. We recently recognized this ethos — as well as their extraordinary contributions — in several key promotions at Hungryroot: Dwayne Searwar to SVP Operations, Phil Jeffs to SVP Product, Antoine Atallah to SVP Data Science, Benjamin Zhang to Director Engineering, Wally Chang to Director Engineering, Mayank Gupta to Sr Software Engineer, Sergio Lopez Lazzarini to QA Automation Engineer, Jingchen Cao to Sr Operations Research Engineer, Xiaowei Bao to Principle Operations Research Engineer, Kevin Huang to Sr Data Engineer, Sanat Malhotra to Mgr Food Analytics, Katie Tully to Creative Director, Nicholas Faiello to Sr Photographer, Allison St. Rock to Marketing Mgr, Erin Carroll to Marketing Mgr, Isaac Mccracken to Sr Mgr Transportation, Laura Kershaw to Sr Packaging Engineer, Beth Goodman to Inventory Associate, Jesse Lankford to Lead Product Designer, and Morgan Jenswold to Employee Experience Lead. Congratulations to all of you. I’m fortunate to work with each of you, and grateful that you ambitiously drive our mission forward each day while ensuring that we never fail silently.