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Hey everybody, hey everybody, welcome to another episode of this week in startups.

My name is Jason Callicanis.

I am an angel investor in the Silicon Valley.

I've run a firm called Launch.

You can visit that firm, Launch.o. We don't have the M.

We just have launch.

And this podcast is something I started to meet founders

and talk to them about their businesses

because I'm passionate about startups,

passionate about entrepreneurship and

investing in these great companies. And during the pandemic, we had a concern that we're hearing from our portfolio

companies, hey it's getting harder to raise money.

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