I thought I would try a new concept, basically a little live recording, and I thought I would

recap the week for you. I wanted to try doing some live streams here on some live streams using

my YouTube channel, since there's a lot of people who follow the YouTube channel and just thought

about what I worked on this week and I'll share it with you. First off, it was a big week for the

podcast. Obviously, this week in startups is just growing like investors. I just found this Canada

I love ginger ale dye ginger ale and I got this like giant two liter one. I think we had a party

or something and I was like I kind of drink this before it goes bad. So you guys get to experience me

drinking. What is my favorite beverage of the moment, which is Canada dry, but I like the Canada

dry zero sugar. I think that one's better. So what happened this week? What investments am I doing?

This is great. It's so nice to see a bunch of you here. So the last five twists today we have

an episode we can win from Republic, and that was a great episode. Obviously Republic is

growing like gangbusters. Republic for those of you who don't know is equity crowdfunding.

Slightly different than what angel list or I do on the syndicate.com, which is accredited investors.

What's an accredited investor? Credit investor is basically in the United States or rich person.

The top 5% of the country, people who make over $200,000 a year and they're allowed to invest in venture

capital firms and private companies. But civilians, non accredited investors, what people would say is

non sophisticated. It's really kind of demeaning language. You could make $3,000 a year and be smarter

than somebody who makes $500,000 obviously. But we have this rule that rich people don't need to be

protected, poor people need to be protected. I get it. It's with good intent. But the result is

people who are coming up in their careers like I was in my 20s can invest in companies that they

know are going to do great or they suspect will be do great. You can go bat on sports, but you can't

go bat on a company that you love. So Republic does equity crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding,

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