Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home, another portfolio profile

episode.

It's been months since we've done one of these. I feel like at

least since the fourth. We're going to talk to a portfolio company from earlier

this year.

I think we got in touch in January, Dan,

and made the investment around then.

We're gonna talk about play.

We're talking to Dan La Cervita. Hi Dan. Hey, good to see you.

Yeah.

So to find out more about play, you can go right now as we're in your ears to create with

play.com. But as people are hopefully doing that Dan, give me the elevator pitch.

What is play and who's it for and why is it absolutely amazing?

Sure.

So play as a design tool for teams building mobile apps. If you're designing a mobile app, we're building play for you. I think what makes play special is it lets you design apps with the power of iOS and Swift UI.

So you could design directly on your phone,

as well as now on your desktop.

So Play combines a familiar design canvas, so similar to what you may be using in Figma, with the power of Apple's native iOS elements, access to device hardware like the camera and accelerometer, advanced interactions and prototyping capabilities

that are built on Apple's core animation and Swift UI code that's generated in real time

based on your designs.

So with the caveats that obviously I'm not a designer, developer,

the advantage here is one convenience because, hey, designed for mobile on your phone, but is there also an advantage

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