Hi everyone, I'm Zoran Bassich, our crypto editor. On February 21st, our team kicked off its very first crypto startup school. We invited dozens of instructors and mentors and 45 students who applied and were selected from around the U.S. and three countries for a seven-week course to learn how to build crypto projects. But just two weeks in, community spread of the coronavirus in our area started happening.

And as much as we loved having everyone gathered together in one place, we decided to go remote,

not just for the health and safety of everyone involved, but for others, too, given the recommendations

around social distancing and the importance of flattening the curve. So I did a short hallway-style

chat, though in this case,

the hallways are all remote since A16C has gone remote with crypto marketing partner Kim

Milosevic and Jesse Walden, former founder of Media Chain, who's helping lead our crypto startup

school effort. We begin with Kim sharing her thoughts, since so many others are going through this

for their own events.

So the idea of moving a remote wasn't something I was excited about at first because the first week, you know, it was clear that the excitement in the room, like everybody was just so thrilled

to be there and you could feel the energy. You know, we kicked off the program and everybody

was applauding, you know, everybody was off the program and everybody was applauding.

You know, everybody was just so excited to be there with each other.

We had put a lot of emphasis on having these 45 students here in person for the benefit of really

learning from each other and being part of something.

And to then learn that this whole thing is going to go virtual, my first thought was just

how do we continue to have that sort of feeling and create that kind of atmosphere for people.

And then it just really became, it's very complicated, right?

We worked through it.

It took a lot of us coming together,

many phone calls and figuring out all of our resources. It's really just the minutia of the audio,

the video, how do we make that kind of a seamless experience? And then also make sure these

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