Okay, everybody. It's a big show today. We're doing episode 10, the final show of the startup

checklist. You can see the entire startup checklist at this week and startups.com slash checklist.

But first, I'm going to cover the news, Brian Armstrong and Tether skipped the crypto hearings

this week. They got called out by a senator and Adele has a new residency at Caesars Palace in

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off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. Okay, in our first story today, Brian Armstrong

and Tether called out by Senator for skipping the crypto hearings on Wednesday. Here's a little

background. The House Financial Services Committee hosted a number of crypto executives,

Circle CEO Jerry Miller, who's been on the program FTX CEO Sam,

Bank and Freed on the was there. Coinbase, the CFO was there, but not the CEO, Paxo,

CEO Charles was there and some other lesser known crypto executives. Of course, when people talk

about crypto, a lot of okay boomer moments, a lot of stuff trending on TikTok and Twitter.

But you do see from I didn't get to watch the whole thing, but from the clips I did see,

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