It's my absolute favorite time of the week, Audrey.

Not just Friday, but it's Friday at 7 o'clock, which means the start of tech vibe radio

where we get to sit back, stretch out, and talk to great companies, great men, great women

who are just really kicking butt these days.

Yeah, they are. It's like an honor. It's like... It is an honor. I've, I said that after my

10-year anniversary. Exactly. I said, I really believe that it's an honor to do this work.

It is. It is. Even though you're a pain in my rear end. I'm a total pain in your end. I totally think this is an honor to do this work. I agree. You know, pain is part of the process, right? You are a pain. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I mean, it's like, the work is, it's so interesting. We're in our 35th year, right? I've had an incredible amount of time to meet still people

who were still founding just recently i met someone who was participated in the tech council at the

onset and it's so fascinating i think i know that guy what their vision was and what they really

thought the problems were and how they how they really had the right questions that were being asked and trying to form the right experiments.

Okay.

But the issues are the same.

And they're the same everywhere you go.

They are in many ways.

The question is, what's the trick and how do you balance all the

variables right let us know that we the more that we become more articulate about what it is

that's happening in a particular city or in a particular region, you know, the more there's

this proliferation of information that gets democratized.

So everyone's got an opinion.

And everyone can post it, they can tweet it, they can figure it out, they got an opinion.

You know, and sometimes we say, okay, that's interesting, that's fascinating, and people ride

the coattails.

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