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

I'm Brian McCullough.

Well, as often happens on the show,

you've been listening along with me as I've learned about something.

I was completely unfamiliar with Reliance and the Reliance Geo story so when every

a list pool of capital in the world suddenly lined up to invest in Reliance Geo,

I didn't know what the story was, but I knew that this was definitely one of the most important

stories of the moment in tech. So after a few weeks of

reading around the internet, this episode is sort of my debriefing for you on what I

think the Reliance Geo story actually is. And I've chosen to give you this data dump with the able

assistance of Bern Hobart because he was mainly able to read the book that I

have not yet been able to read about the whole

Reliance story. And so Byrne helps us tackle not just the Reliance Geo story

at the moment, but also the deeper Reliance story going back to the 1950s and

the whole Ambani clan writ large. But also I chose to do this

with Byrne because if you're unfamiliar with his work I encourage you to subscribe to

his excellent newsletter the The Diff. You can find it at Diff, DIF.

DIF.

dot substack.com. I've also got a link in the show notes.

I subscribe to upwards of 50 different newsletters, but as I say

toward the end of this episode somehow I end up reading the diff more than most because

darn it if Byrne doesn't find some new angle every week on something

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