Hey everybody and welcome back to Equity. This is Alex and I am in Boston at Tech

Crunch Early Stage. So far the event has been if I can be so bold something of a

bop but we're not actually going to have a regular show for you. We had planned on that, but Natasha, who is in town as well for the Confab is actually out sick. So instead of our usual rundown of all the news topics and all the themes that we kind of do, it's just me today. So we'll run down of all the news topics and all the themes that we kind of do.

It's just me today so we'll keep it brief but I do have a number of pretty neat things for you.

Now we're going to be back to full strength next week but in the meantime we're going to roll

as a pair.

All right, so first up Boston and what it's like here.

So COVID obviously arrived.

Tech Ranch did mostly digital events for a couple of years and this is the first time

that we are back on the ground with our events crew, a bunch of the edit team, and we're in Boston and it's great. The vibes, I think as they say these days, are immaculate. There's a lot of people here, sessions are packed, lots of people

are networking and hanging out, there's really good coffee. I'm just overall pretty

fricking stoked. And you know, I'm a little bit late to all this because I've been talking

to a lot of folks I got to run

into Ishaun from Desians and Kyle Openview and a lot of other founders but you know even

though I'm late to the fact Boston really did turn up and I think Boston needs to get

a little bit of the chip off of its

shoulder. Last night we had a kind of a pre-event mixer with some speakers and some

VCs and some founders. Anyways people from the Boston crew were like hey you know

great that you're here but why

is tech much hosting this event in Boston and I think the real response to that is

why not Boston is probably the third largest startup scene in the US after the Bay Area and New York.

And we did early stage at SF last year and New York is impossible to host events in.

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