I was realizing as I was trying to make predictions, I'm like, anything that is not in my very small universe of media, I'm like, I'm like, I can't look at myself seriously making these predictions, so high conviction is generally stuff like that I spend time in the first one of my signs of like a mature, self-aware entrepreneur is when like a person says to me like, I know this really well so I'm gonna, but these things like I have no clue and someone like has the same level of knowledge on everything, I immediately don't believe anything that they say,

what's up everyone, I'm Alex Lieberman, and I'm Sophia Amaruso, you know, this is Jesse Pooji, and this is the Crazy Wands, what's up misfits, welcome back to the Crazy Wands, the best startup show on planet earth, I am so excited for an amazing 2023, so let's do this damn thing, few housekeeping items before we get into the episode number one, this year is gonna be the year of experimentation, you're gonna see us trying a lot of stuff as it relates to the

type of content we're talking about, the format of content, so you may see the regular 45 minute round table style episode we do, but you also may see old school founders journal,

Esca episodes where we do diary entries of lessons we're learning, we may also incorporate interviews with some of the best entrepreneurs in the world, so stay tuned for some of these things, and as always, we wanna hear your feedback, so shoot an email to the Crazy Wands at MorningBrew.com, and let us know what you think.

Second, I wanna share that our co-host Sophia Amaruso is not going to be a regular host on the pod moving forward, Sophia has an amazing

amount of really exciting things going on this year for her as it relates to her investing career, her entrepreneurial career, and it's simply just taking up too much time, and we're super excited for her, she's a friend of the pod, she's for sure,

gonna be on this show in the future as she sees really cool things happening with her investing, with her businesses like business class, but moving forward, it's gonna be Jesse and I co-pilating the show, and we're gonna miss Sophia, but we're excited for all that is ahead for her.

Missy Sophia, we are definitely gonna miss you, and by the way, I already thanked her in private, but I need to thank Sophia for the really thoughtful gifts she sent me, she got me a jacket, like a collegiate style jacket, which I've never heard, because I wasn't on a football team, so I didn't have one of those cool patch jackets.

She sent me one of those and it says misfits on it, so shout out Sophia for getting the awesome jacket, once I figure out my light situation, gonna have that shining the background.

Okay, with that out of the way, let's talk about today's episode.

First, Jesse and I are gonna be talking about the big things that are on our minds as we head into 2023, from the latest developments in AI, to business stories that have captured our attention, and also what specific predictions we have for the year ahead.

I'm typically not a prediction person, but my view is the start of conversation, it pushes us to form points of view, and that's the goal for that section.

The second is a complete 180. I've been working on a side business in the background, it's called the plunge, it involves throwing plungers at a dartboard, it's a backyard game.

I'm gonna take you all through the story and the genesis of this game, and then Jesse is gonna do a good old business crossfit asking questions, poking holes in the business.

And finally, we're gonna wrap up with startup AMA, where we're gonna be answering a question about recurring meetings and Shopify's, I would say very contrarian change that they made as it relates to their recurring meetings.

So let's hop into this thing.

Here we go.

Let's do it.

2023.

Where do you wanna start? Do you wanna talk about the things that you're most excited about or thinking about? Do you wanna talk about predictions?

I think maybe one place to start for me is predictions, I think people are polarizing.

My favorite quote around planning for your business or predictions is plans are useless, what planning is invaluable.

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