Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm your host Brian McCullough as always.

I'm joined by your usual co-host Chris Messina.

Hello, hello. And you know folks you've heard me do what three or four segments

about Blue Sky over the last two weeks on the show.

So, hey, why not go right to the source?

Our guest today is the CEO of Blue Sky.

Jay Graybird Jay.

Thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for having me.

So you guys got rid of the wait list,

opened up the platform to the world last week. What have you

seen so far in terms of, you know, uptick people coming on? How's it going?

Yeah, we've got we almost doubled our user count. I think we're at 3.3 million when we opened up last Tuesday now we're at 4.8. So almost 5 million. Pretty good. Things are going well.

That did the decision to finally open up, was it based on, you know, obviously this was something that has a project that's been developing for I think three years, maybe more than that.

Was it a question of you felt like you were I think three years, maybe more than that.

Was it a question of you felt like you were

feature complete enough that it was time

to open up to everyone?

Yeah, I think something actually people don't understand about our timelines is we were first sort of just an idea within Twitter and didn't actually become a thing until I took it over mid-21 and then we weren't really a company until we spun out in 2022. So it's been out two years and for the first part of that we were

building a protocol for Twitter to run on and then we didn't start building an app until it looked clear

that Twitter was never going to adopt this protocol. So then we went ahead and built an

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