Welcome to the first bonus episode in a while, from the tech meme ride home experience.

This is Brian and Chris. Chris is here too. Hi Chris.

Hey, hey. So essentially we told you or I told you about what we were going to discuss today on the show yesterday.

We're going to tee up a podcast episode on As-Cantrances Pod, where we sort of announced the Ride Home AI Fund.

But I also wanted, you know, Chris's, as I said yesterday, 50-50 with me on this new AI fund and Chris is 50-50 on the Right Home

Experience episodes which haven't happened because we've been busy with this

fund so I wanted to give Chris the opportunity to come on and you know tell why from his perspective

He's jumping over to this side of the VC table with me so Chris, Chris, this is your therapy session. Oh my God, yes. Well, you know, I guess I kind of think about the simulation that is the Silicon Valley game and I've played most of the roles so far.

I've been a product manager, I've been on developer platform teams, I've been a founder,

I've been a consultant, I've been a founder I've been a consultant I've been a designer so the last thing the

last boss I suppose that I thought I needed to play into it's funny that you say that I've used that term with my wife before where like

VC is sort of the boss level fight where it's like if I if I go into this space

then like there's really nothing else. I mean I'm sure there will be many

other things it's more a matter of having started my career in open source and

being all about building up the web as a platform to now come to a place

where I've kind of done enough tours of duty in different experiences and walks of the

founder journey to recognize and realize that in this moment in particular

it feels that both the allocation of capital to get founders to build into this space and then to provide them with coaching and

guidance and advice based on the experience that I've lived in and of course that

Brian you and I have talked to so many founders about is going to be necessary to stand out,

break out and succeed in this new space.

The other thing that's very important to me is that back in December I I

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