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Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of this week in Startups. We've got a very special crossover collab, collaboration, whatever the Gen Z kids are saying today.

They love when you put two things together, peanut butter and chocolate, Nike and whoever...

We're going to get a house in LA, start doing ticktocks.

We're going to do a ticktock house. It's going to be a start-up. It's going to be a venture house.

We're launching today a ticktock venture house, and it's going to be the most boring place on the planet.

With us again today, the boys are back from acquired FM, Ben Gilbert. He's Gilbert on the Twitter, G-I-L-B-E-R-T.

He is the cohost of acquired.fm, an amazing podcast that does very deep dives into startups and investing.

He and he's also Ben is also the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs and PSL Ventures.

A start-up studio and VC fund in Seattle, David Rosenfall is DJ Rosen T.

And he is the cohost of course of acquired FM independent angel investor and start-up advisor. Welcome back boys.

It's a great to be back.

Great to be here.

A house life bin. You guys are getting ready for the end of the pandemic. Ready to move on.

Get back to the real world. Me too.

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