This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. woke up, wake you up. Wake that ass up. Program your alarm to power 105.1 on IHartRadio. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just-Hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Lerloz is here. And we got a special guest in the building. We have Isaac Hayes III. Good morning, brother. What's up, guys? How are you doing? Bless the Black and highly favorite. How are you, my brother? I am excellent. I am highly favored and blessed as well. So what are we doing today, Isaac? What are we doing? What are you doing? What do you mean when we're doing? We're closing this round for fan base. We're closing this equity crowd for fan base. It closes today. I feel like this is a great opportunity for everybody to give an investment as a gift for people. You know, I've been here before, talked about the importance of investing, but especially with social media,

I think we really need to galvanize right now at this time because the world is shifting.

And so I'm telling everybody go to start engine.com slash fanbase and invest to own equity in the company.

$3.99 is the minimum of investment.

But it's a bigger story than just investing in fanbase.

So when people ask the question, they say, okay, you know, you've raised millions of dollars for fan base.

You know, they may want to invest.

Walk us through line by line how that capital gets deployed.

So, number one, infrastructure.

So we just built a brand new algorithm.

You know, we spent almost half the year working on that.

We have some new key hires.

All of this capital gets deployed in hiring better people, like really people that used to work at meta, they used to work at TikTok, they used to work at Snapchat,

and those salaries aren't cheap. We also have to hire engineers to build what we're building and develop those products, and it takes time. Honestly, the amount of capital that I've raised

over a five-year period, some people get deployed five times that capital in one year, and they burn it all, and they go out of business.

And so we've had to really stretch.

You know how they say, you know, my mom would say you make the money stretch, make the food stretch.

Yeah.

We've had to really make this capital stretch with this company, but it's a testament to our ability to spend wisely, hire effectively, and continue to build the best product.

Now, I agree with you because, you know, we see these tech companies.

They get, you know, crazy donations all the time, raise a lot of capital, a lot more capital than you have.

How much of you raised over the last, what, five years?

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