Hey everyone, Alex Cantorwood's here. Big Technology has hit five years old. I can't believe it,

five years since we started. So I just wanted to do a quick solo episode here with you today,

very brief just to say thank you to talk a little bit about where the show is going and what

it's going to sound like moving forward, to share a bit of the editorial philosophy I have here and then a little bit about

how you can help the show if you'd like and then we're going to wrap so let's begin with gratitude

i need to say thank you we're five years in and this show is sustainable and with podcasts and with

most of the media the audience size is going to correlate directly to your ability to produce the show.

And I'm happy to say that we have crossed the threshold where this show works.

We're consistently in the top 10 for tech news on Apple Podcasts.

We're often in the top five.

I'd like to be at number one, but I would say so far, so good. So what's going to happen

next? I think as our audience grows, we're going to end up getting more prominent guests, and I

think you've started to see that already with Demis Saba's coming on twice this year, the CEO of

Google Deep Mind, and then Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, deciding to show up to that interview at Google I.O.

I don't think we're going to stop here.

I think that we'll see more heads of AI research houses coming on.

Just to cue you in, I'm pitching their PR operations all the time.

And I think that there's a new openness because of the fact that this show has grown,

and I think that they will. My prediction is we will see a leader of another AI research house

coming on in the next couple of months and hopefully a former U.S. Secretary of State.

These are informed predictions, and I think the show will build and it's just

going to get better. And again, because you tune in, be it once a week or twice a week or wherever

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