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Thank you. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

Joining us today is one of my favorite voices and entrepreneurs in the tech world.

He's the founder of Meetup, a site that helps people meet online and then get together offline.

Now he's working on something new. Scott Hiferman, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Alex. Good to be here. It's great to have you. I always love our conversations.

I think the listeners are really in for a treat.

And I'm thrilled that you agreed to come on. So thanks for being here.

Of course.

So I or sent you this question in advance. So you have like maybe a little bit of a heads up on what's coming. But I think it's important to get in nonetheless. So you founded Meetup.

I think Meetup in its essence is an extremely optimistic site, the idea that you try to get people

who meet online around like interests and bring them together offline. The idea is that's probably

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