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Hello, everyone, my guest today is Adam Tall.

He was set on solving a big problem for video gamer, specifically internet

lag. He invented his company, Haste, with his co-founder, which uses next generation network

software to reduce lag and improve overall network stability. He was also the first Haste investor

and previously co-founder and CEO of Big Champagne. All right, Adam, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yeah, let's do it.

Okay, so for people who are not gamers,

maybe try and describe Haste so that the world can understand it.

Yeah, so Haste is software that optimizes the internet for real-time experiences, right?

And so as a platform and as a technology, what we're really solving for is any type of

real-time application.

We're actually using one right now in the form of Slack, right?

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