This is a special edition of Macrovoises with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

The premier financial podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family

offices, and other sophisticated investors.

Now for this special edition of Macrovoises, here's hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

Macrovoises Spotlight Episode number one was recorded on August 30, 2019.

I'm Eric Townsend.

Macrovoises Spotlight is a brand new podcast format we're introducing on Macrovoises.

When we began selling advertising spots to sponsors to fund our operating costs,

we were immediately inundated by people hoping to buy their way into a feature interview

on our flagship Thursday night podcast.

We said no way and we said it firmly.

We're not going to turn Macrovoises into an infomercial and we are absolutely dedicated

to never adopting a paid-a-play model.

We will always choose our interview guests based on what we believe you the listener want to hear most.

But this is presented something of a conundrum because frankly, some of our sponsors are actually

very interesting people whom I'd like to interview.

So to resolve this conundrum, we created Macrovoises Spotlight as a separate and distinct entity.

In the interest of full disclosure, Macrovoises Spotlight guests are sponsors who may have paid

a promotional fee to appear on Macrovoises Spotlight.

But that doesn't mean that we're getting into the infomercial business.

We're going to be very selective and only offer Macrovoises Spotlight interviews to guests who

in our judgment really have something to say that is likely to be of interest to our listeners

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