It's Thursday, February 25th.

Welcome to Market.

I'm Cressil joining me in studio today, the one and only Morgan Housall.

Thanks for being here.

How you doing?

I'm doing all right.

I'm fully caffeinated, I've got more coffee in front of me.

I'm excited that I see actually a mug of coffee rather than a purchased cup of coffee.

The amount of coffee that you purchase worries me sometimes.

We brought this up before.

We have free coffee in the office and you choose to walk across the street and pay for

it after waiting in line, which I consider almost a mental illness.

I was with you right up until a mental illness part.

I'm getting some exercise when I go for a walk

and I'm I feel like I'm getting value for the money I'm paying because the

coffee we have in the office it's free but I think that's probably the best thing I would say about the coffee in our office

okay is that it's free and just to further deflate you the coffee that's in my mug

right now is coffee that I purchased at Starbucks and then poured in my mug

so I can put that in the microwave and heat it up.

Can't win. Let's talk about private companies because we don't talk about private companies all that much and you actually co-authored something for Fast Company

magazine that I want to get to that ties into that.

And this is a piece entitled, The Case Against Startups Raising as much money as humanly possible.

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