It's Thursday March 17th.

Welcome to Market Fullry.

I'm Chris Hill.

We are wrapping up South by Southwest week here in Austin, Texas.

We have moved several blocks away from the Austin Convention Center and we are in the cozy confines of the

capital factory with the man running the capital factory Josh Bear. Thank you so much

for taking time to talk to me today.

No problem.

I can only guess at how busy a week like this is for someone like you who runs a start.

Well, when people ask you, what is the Capital Factory?

What is your 32nd response?

Capital Factory is the center of gravity

for entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas.

Last year, more than 50,000 programmers and entrepreneurs

came here day and night for meetups and events and hackathons.

About a thousand members work here on a daily basis

where they can be around other entrepreneurs and investors and

people that can mentors that can help them out. And then we have a fund

designed to help invest in those companies and help them grow and all of this is

designed to help them meet their first investors, their first

customers, and their first employees, all three things that just make an incredible

difference for an early stage company.

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