Odd Lots · Monday, June 29, 2026
BYD CFO Henry Hoo explained the company's strategy for attracting top AI talent, emphasizing autonomy, trust, and opportunities for growth. He noted that BYD encourages employees to operate as 'one-person teams' leveraging AI agents and aims to provide them with significant freedom to innovate, contrasting this with rigid, title-based token allocations.
“So I think we want to more open and more nimbo in a way that given enough token to the individuals to empower their internal RD efforts. But on the other end, we do have a lot of efforts to make sure the token costs become dramatic coming down. I think the cost is coming out very fast before you even think about getting a policy. Maybe the unit cost is coming down half in like a few weeks. So we need to think about the speed and the cost and output efficiency these three parameters as a package, not only on the number of tokens.”
“But more importantly, I think it is really about giving people more autonomy to work in a company, so more trust and more autonomy and give them more real work. And you know, there's a one concept called one person company, right, so we're very happy to working with one person company because they actually use our AI to very nicely and willing to pay a lot of revenue to our products given the quality. However, within the company, we'll also encourage people to be the one person team so they can actually use the agents to work on a lot of internal tasks.”