Hey everybody Brian here quick note that Chris's microphone is a little low at the beginning

but about five minutes in I discover that and fix it so just bear with me you can still hear

him just a little low and it gets better quickly. Welcome everybody to do Tech Meme Ride Home Experience for Saturday, March 5th. I'm actually here live in New York with Brian and we have a

special guest today. Charlie? How you doing? Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Venture.

That's me.

We're sitting here, we should also say that we're sitting here in my kitchen again like we did a few months ago and

The the listeners said that this was one of their favorite episodes when we did this the last time.

Yeah, with Alex. Yes, with Alex, Kantruitz.

This is the shortest walk I've ever had to go for a podcast.

I appreciate that. Anybody else who has a podcast?

I'm willing to come on.

Exactly.

It's, you know, it's good to be in actual physical meat space with people because it's useful to understand people's

moods and things like that.

Especially this week, there's no way we can do this

without talking about the Ukraine situation and I'm going to kick it to you Charlie in a second

but I'm going to tell you the way that I framed the conversation about the Ukraine stuff this week which was this.

I feel I'm concerned that the tech industry in general is still in the 90s in the sense that if you

have a social media platform what you want to do is because of scale just run one

platform for the whole world in the same way in the late 90s or early 2000s if you're a hardware company or whatever you

The US is the dominant power. We don't have to worry about pirates so much like we can we can

can source our goods from anywhere around the world.

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