Hey everybody Brian here so this is the short announcement episode that I mentioned on Friday that I might do today as I've also mentioned in passing in the past I got way back into angel investing in a big way this year

almost a dozen investments in companies of all sorts and a hundred percent of those

investment opportunities came because of doing this podcast.

So I've been in discussion with Angelist and my friends in venture capital about starting a sort of ride home fund to do more targeted investments at scale and the opportunities

hosting this podcast provides.

And I want you to join me.

The idea is simple. Tens of thousands of people listen to the show every day.

How many of them work in startups at their early stages? How many of them are startup founders

themselves? We have access to dozens, if not hundreds, of companies at the

Angel through Series A and B stages who might like to have the Mutant Podcast Army

on their cap table. My guiding light for doing this is Packing McCormick who has leveraged his

newsletter which has about the exact same size audience as we do into a successful

early stage investment fund. So like him, I think we can help companies we invest

and tell their story through the podcast, find resources and solutions

through all of you, the audience, and like Packi I intend to share Carrie with anyone who leads us to an

investment gets us an allocation in a good deal. You don't even have to invest to share

Carrie, just give us a good lead, get us a good deal, and I'll share some of the

proceeds with you. Now number one, this is not something that's going to replace

the podcast or take over the podcast. This is a side hustle for me. The podcast is still number one

because the podcast makes everything possible but since I'm

going to be doing this investing anyway why not have some of you along with me for

the ride get it ride home fund and number two normally when funds like this are raised the GP which is me

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