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Hey everybody,

hey everybody welcome to another episode of this week in

startups really excited to have today's guest on us because

uh... he's had a really interesting couple of years he's been through the

fire and unlike most founders who don't talk about the struggle and the absolute pain and suffering that

startups can be and often I think are most often painful he would agree.

He wrote, there's about 40 tweets about his experience.

He wrote a medium post and he shared,

most notably an email to a former board member and I'm going to briefly just outline why that was important as part of doing this. I told Ryan we talk about the big

picture and not obsess over the board member in question who has responded? Craig Shapiro from CoLab Fund did respond not to me but just

publicly on Twitter and the email to this board member was pretty brutal. It was incredibly candid and it outlined a board member who was insecure,

a board member who was disrespectful, a board member who didn't take the work seriously, who was

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