Joseph Levin
Analyst · Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead with your question
Thanks, Eric. In terms of why me, and I guess I can weave in the answer to your second question in that. First, I've been involved in this business in one way or another for a very long time. I know the things we've done have worked. I know the things we've done that haven't worked. And so I have, I'd say, a significant working knowledge of the category, the product, the customers. Second, some of the fundamental things that we need to accomplish at Angi are very consistent with things we've accomplished at other businesses, how to handle search, how to handle monetization, things to optimize for in conversion. And I think that experience is going to be very relevant to Angi here that would be to other Internet businesses. Third, I believe in this business. I think it's important to have a leader who believes in the business. And I have believed in this business for a very long time, and I know that we can create enormous value here. We also have to move quickly. I think that we've made some recent mistake that we need to fix. And I don't want to say I'm the CEO of convenience, but I did happen to be available very quickly to do this. And I think that, that allows us to make the change that we want to make faster than a longer process. And the last thing is, and this gets to your second question, is I think the organization needs to be more disciplined. And disciplined means balancing the short term and the long term. Any leader, I think, can optimize for the short term. And any leader, I think, can optimize for the long term. I think the right manager, the best managers and the right operating philosophy is to be balancing the short term and the long term. I think we have to deliver for 2023, and I think we have to deliver more profit for 2023, and I think we're totally capable of doing that. But I also think we have to focus on the long term and make sure that what we're doing for our customers, our homeowners and our service professionals is something that's going to keep them around working with us for a very long time, and we have to balance those things. I think that is totally possible to do. I think we perhaps drifted from some of that balance in short and long term. I think we drifted in some of that balance from profit and growth. And I think that we can run this business in a much more balanced way, which will be healthy for everybody in that Angi ecosystem.