Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal, and today Michael and I are doing an interview with Alex Rampel, who's our newest GP.

And among the things he'll be focusing on is FinTech. And it's about time we had a FinTech pod, so we've been excited to get him on the podcast to talk about this. Welcome, Alex.

Good to be here.

So, Alex, let's actually just start by talking about your background.

I think you break the record among all our GPs for being a serial entrepreneur in terms of how many companies you've started.

Well, more is not better.

It's quality and not quantity.

So it's actually kind of funny.

I mean, I fell into all of this by accident.

And the way that I started was I got a Mac as a computer.

I got the Mac 2, which was the first color Macintosh. Everything up until that point had been

black and white. And I was a very ungrateful child. So because all my friends had PCs, all the

games were written for PC. So I, hey, dad, you know what? Why did you get me this Mac?

I'm so angry.

Like, you got me this, like, massively expensive.

Actually, it was my grandmother who bought it for me.

But my dad helped her pick it up.

There's no games for this.

I can't do this because you literally, you go to, like, some computer store, and 99% of all titles were for PC.

And there'd be like this little anemic Mac section, which just made you feel bad about yourself if you owned a Mac in the 80s.

And Apple, of course, learned from that mistake many years later, and now they really prioritize developers.

So my dad said, well, why don't you learn how to make your own program?

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