Good morning, everybody. Yesterday I jumped on and talked with you guys about why I had made the decision to shut down the show. And it was really a combination of many things. You know, we've put out almost a thousand episodes. They take a lot of time to produce to get the guest, interview the guest, post production, the video plus the audio,

combing through every second to make sure the audio is as high quality as it can,

you know, working with and figuring out show notes, getting blog posts up,

making changes that the CEOs want.

It's a lot, a lot of work.

And in addition, like I told you guys, we were getting sued so frequently

because boards would hear

the interviews that their CEOs did, email me, and ask me to take the episode down because it was,

quote, too transparent, which is ludicrous because that's my job.

That's why I created the show, is to create transparency around these metrics.

So I told you that basically I was shutting the show down

in less in 24 hours you guys decide to donate 500 bucks. And a lot of you guys, well, I got some

interesting feedback. Some of you said, Nathan, this is a ridiculous way to make money. Why are

you doing this? You're not going to shut the show down. That is exactly accurate in terms of,

in terms of you thinking about it in terms of money. The reason I did it is because people always say

in the startup world, you know, customers are not real customers unless they put their money where

their mouth is. You know, all those people who say, Nathan, I have a great idea. It's pre-revenue, but I asked all my friends and they said they'd pay.

Then they'd build the product and the friends never pay.

That's dangerous.

So anytime you want to do that, if you want to let people vote with their money, which is

the most powerful way to vote, it can't be rebel.

You have to actually let them vote with their money.

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