Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Sales Podcast.

So this is our first interview of something we're trying out, which is a founders podcast episode.

And so many people ask us about what companies we've invested in, why we invested in them,

can we invest in their company, lots of questions. We wanted to do a few episodes where we

share companies that we are working with with our partner who's here with us, Phil Schwartz.

Hi, everyone. Phil is our fund Zadi. He is, he's not wearing glasses for this.

And can you say fund Zadi? I don't know. I just did. I did. What does Zadi mean?

I think it's like an older man that like finances your life. Oh, okay. All right, I'll have to

contemplate that. I'm basically your sugar baby. So this is news to me. So we really,

people have so many questions about it. And we thought it would actually be really exciting

to talk to you too. Allison and Lauren, I want you to introduce yourselves because you are our

most recent investment from our fund. And you're also still really early in the process of

launching your business. So it's all very fresh to you because there's a lot of people who

listen to our podcast that want to start a business and have a lot of questions. And so.

And as helpful as it is for them to listen to episodes with founders who have been, you know,

bootstrapping for 15 years. And they, you know, the struggles are a little bit more in the past.

And we love talking to, we're excited to talk to founders where to your point, it's fresh.

You're in it. This is a startup. Like it's, so this is just a, it's a new sort of lane for us.

And our audience was so excited when we, when we asked the audience, what do you want to ask

these people? They couldn't get enough of it. There's so many people in their lives who are

contemplating becoming entrepreneurs who are pivoting from being in the job that they're

into wanting to overcome their fear to start their own business. So this is really exciting.

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