Welcome to this week in startups everybody. We have an awesome show for you today. We're going to be doing this in front of a live YouTube audience.

I am going to hear four pitches and these are two minute pitches and I'll ask some questions after those two minute pitches.

From founders who have attended founder university, you can find some information about founder university at founder dot university.

It's a 12 week program and we invest twenty five thousand dollars in five to ten of the companies.

We'd order to be interesting to take four of the top companies from our fourth cohort of founder university and invest twenty five thousand dollars in one of them live on the air.

And we'll do that at the end of the show. So let's get started.

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I have with me two of my favorite people on planet earth who work with me at launch. That's our investment firm. That produces found a diversity, Presh and Kelly.

Welcome to this week in startups.

That's what you're having me. There you go.

Alright, so Presh, let's start with you. Introduce yourself to the audience. You can explain how long you've been working at launch and our history together briefly.

But then maybe talk about what occurs in the 12 week program, Kelly, then I'll have you introduce yourself and how long we've been working together briefly.

And then maybe you could go through what are the qualities we look for in this twenty five thousand dollar investment we've been doing first money in.

The essential friends and family around you can talk about what we're looking for and then things that are maybe signals that we will wait on investing will you know wait for some things to change. Okay, Presh, you have the floor.

Cool. Thanks, Jason. Yeah, I'm fresh. I've worked for launch and Jason for just over five years started to last name.

Presh to the Schumacher. I worked at launch and Jason for Jason for the past five years started on the media side doing marketing and growth.

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