Welcome to this special half episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling.

This is going to be a short episode. I just wanted to get in your earbuds because we've just made

what I considered to literally be the biggest announcement in microcom's history since we launched it.

Back in 2011, we're approaching a decade now. And we announced it via a video announcement today. It's about a six

minute, six and a half minute video. And I don't want to spoil it for you, but let's just say it's

about expanding microcomf. It's about trying to help more founders for basically less expense,

especially to the early stage founders. It's about a lot of stuff we're up to in 2020 and even in 2021.

So I'm going to have my editor just cut in the audio of that announcement right after this.

If you want to see the video, I'd encourage you to go to YouTube and search for our username. We're MicroConf. And we have several

videos there. Subscribe to that YouTube channel because we are going to be pushing more live on our

YouTube channel. We really have never used it. We have a couple curated playlists already.

The top five highest rated microcomf talks ever and another one, another top five list. And then you'll see, you know, this, this microconve 2020, 2021 update there.

And you can watch the full video, including See Me on the new camera rig I bought about

three or four months ago.

I implemented the wistia soapbox station.

And it's really nice.

It has a built-in LED light and a nice camera and everything.

So it's kind of fun that while the audio is good, the video is really cool and has a lot of

animations and slide-ins and stuff that I think make it a pretty dynamic presentation.

So without further ado, let's hear about the future of microconf.

Hi, I'm Rob Walling, the co-founder of Microcom. Thanks so much for taking the time today to tune into our biggest announcement since we started

microconf almost a decade ago.

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