There's something about being a solo act. I tell people like I'm Bob Dylan. I don't play well in a band and now I'm forced to be in a band with you all in podcast.

I can tell you it is not my natural state of being like.

You know I am the obvious of the front guy. I'm the lead singer. I just want to play the songs and I want to play the songs the way I want to play them. I want to play them correctly.

And then when you know somebody wants to do it some a different and then they want to be the lead singer. It's like the kid be two lead singers, you know, like you can sing a verse but like the dark player you're the bass player.

You're the drummer like do your job like and I agree with you. Like I think we're certain people.

You got to be the solo founder and you can go faster. But it's very rare. And then at the early stage having multiple ones. You know why actually this whole thing started with co-founders.

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And we all want to live longer, right? Life extension has been the dream of technologists, alchemists, religious people and humans since we existed. We all want to get a couple of extra years. And

remember Alta slabs raising three billion from Jeff Bezos, Sherry Milner, a bunch of folks. Startups are starting to use biotech solutions, AI, big data to look at diseases and try to fight agent.

Well, today on the program, we got a slightly different take on life extension. They're working a bit backwards. Planets to start with my favorite creatures on planet earth, dogs.

And eventually use the learnings there to develop life extension treatments for humans. And I think this makes the most sense to me because dogs are so much better than humans. So why the strategy well FDA approval for life extension drugs.

In dogs about 50 times less expensive than for humans. And you can tell if it works much faster because dogs have such a shorter lifespan than humans do.

So Selene Hollywood is the founder and CEO of loyal. Selene, I love dogs. Thanks for starting this company.

Absolutely. I'm why they're not a cat person.

Cat people are the worst. I think we all agree on that. And once you get to two or more cats, specifically three, you know, something's going very, very wrong in your life.

Now owning multiple dogs, like I do too, that's completely permissible. And when I retire, my wife and I plan to start a bulldog rescue. That is our retirement plan. So in 20 years old, so sweet.

Yeah. Dogs, almost by definition, if you get one, you're signing that contract that they're going to you're going to bury them. And they're not going to bury you.

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