I could walk away from all of this.

And in fact, at certain times in my career, I have evaluated, what if I didn't podcast anymore?

What if I didn't do events?

What if we didn't do, you know, microcomps or whatever?

This was years ago.

And there have been turning points in my career where I've doubled down on it.

And I'm at the point now where this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life.

I have made that decision.

It's another episode of Startup for the Rest of Us.

I'm your host Rob Walling. I'm fired up to be here today. Thanks for joining me.

A lot of interesting listener emails that I've received over the past couple weeks, couple months that that will be walking through. Some of these are questions. There's some feedback. There's

a critique of my episode 581 on inflation for founders that I think is really well written and

well reasoned. Some feedback on just some statements I made about certain things being an

inflation hedge or not. Thoughts on renaming a podcast. A funny story about a listener, Matt Paulson, who we've

heard from before. He heard me on my first million where we talked about potentially renaming

podcasts. And there's a funny story there. And then we do have a couple listener questions that I

will dive into. But before we dive in a couple listener questions that I will dive into.

But before we dive in to that tasty goodness, I wanted to let you know that as of yesterday,

applications for two new tiny seed batches are once again open. We have our Americas batch,

and this will be a spring 22 batch that will start in just a few months.

And then we have our Emilia, or Europe, Middle East, and Africa time zones batch.

So as you may have heard on this podcast, we raised a $10 million fund to invest in companies in Europe,

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