Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runches Podcast all about the business of

startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is

Alex. I'm here with a bonus episode today, something a little bit special. I am

putting on my Wednesday hat and I'm going to be talking to a couple

people that I know about a topic that is near and dear to my current thinking.

What's going on? Well, I'm curious about the world of corporate communications, because as you may have heard Elon Musk bought a

company called Twitter kind of a big deal and one thing that he did according to Axios

was Ax the entire communication staff apart from one person therefore kind of putting it all into his hands, much like he's done with Tesla and Space X.

And I sat down and went, how crazy is that? And I didn't have an answer. So I decided to learn more about corporate combs, and to help me do that I have a couple of guests.

Friends of mine, people that I've talked to for ages and ages and ages.

They're both smart as a whip and they're both very funny they've promised so this should be a good time first up we have

Kiana Corliss former head of Combs at Tablo through its IPO and

formerly head of global communications at PR at Databrics kiana say hi hi and then we also

have Kelly Landander's Boynton

Gustavo Senior Director of Communications and a former VP at Access Communications

where she was for some time Kelly say hi.

Hi thanks for having me.

Can I just say how weird this is to be having you guys on the show as guests?

Because usually I talked to you like five minutes before I talked to a CEO about something

and we're like, you know, figuring out a detail. It's strange to be like interviewing you

while we're recording.

I can't quite get my head around it.

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