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Now, this is an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time.

I sit down with Cyrus Gazenvar.

He's a really cool entrepreneur who talks through his experience starting a company called Pilotah.

This was started in 2019.

They go through 500 startups, the startup accelerator that I'm very familiar with, spent a lot of time at 500 in San Francisco.

And we talk about the startup Pilotah that him and his friends started when they were in college and they got some early traction.

And this was a piece of technology that would help almost like an insurance for flights.

So when something got canceled, a flight could get covered by this insurance policy that would get you rescheduled and re-booked on a different flight in the event that something happened.

So really cool product, really great idea.

And what happened was the pandemic.

And this is something that I really wanted to do an episode on because this walks through just the raw, really deep story behind an aquahire acquisition from a larger company during the midst of the pandemic.

I know hundreds of entrepreneurs that I've talked to over the years since the pandemic that similar stories have happened.

And I wanted to do this episode really to highlight that, you know, a true, a true founder and a true entrepreneur is going to continue regardless of what happens.

And what we go through the story with Pilotah flights really just completely freezing during the pandemic really just shows the ambition and the drive that entrepreneurs like Cyrus have.

So he started a new company called Beagle that helps people, you know, solve the inefficiencies of 401Ks.

And he's working on that currently, but digging into Pilotah is a really special story. And I know it's going to resonate with dozens, if not hundreds of people that listen to this episode that really got to experience the pandemic full force when they're operating a startup in the midst of just this meltdown globally.

So this isn't really one of those big shiny exits per se, but this is a true real story here on the exit, because I want to highlight these types of stories as well for entrepreneurs everywhere that experiences.

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