So glad you're listening to TechVive Radio tonight.

This is John the Kirsten.

And this is Audrey Russo. And Audrey, you know what? I feel like I haven't been on the air a while. I know. It's been weird. And the fall has gone by so quickly. And like you were traveling everywhere. You were in Croatia. You were like, you were in Portland. And then the last time you took this really cool flight with British Airways, along with

a number of our Pittsburgh startups for a really cool business mission over to the UK.

I was so excited when you guys did this.

I will admit, I was a little jealous.

It was the one time I really wanted to fly internationally.

Whoa.

Yes.

You know how you always pushed me. You've done a great job pushing me to expand my horizons.

I was like, I don't want, I didn't want to have to say that out loud.

No, I'm just saying.

But I can tell you one of the things just looking backwards.

Right.

Looking backwards.

Obviously, I was blown away that you hadn't been anywhere. Right. Because I've been lucky in my life to travel almost all around the world. I was going to say, you've been everywhere around the world. Not everywhere. No. Pretty close. I haven't been to Africa. Really? No. Well, then. No. you've been like to Australia? Yeah. You've hit the major times. But there's a whole lot of world out there. There's a whole lot of world out there. There's a whole lot of world out there. Absolutely. And one thing that I love about Pittsburgh is we have a lot of bragging rights. And what we have built here and continue to build is absolutely incredible. But if the whole

world doesn't know about it and you're not connected to the world. Good point. What does it matter?

It's, it's tough. We're in a world of, as you know, everyone knows, you can reach anyone anywhere,

any time, whether or not they respond back to you. But the point is where our interconnectedness

is important. And on top of that, you can't really build a company in Pittsburgh when the

customers are all around the world. Exactly. Well, that's one thing at perspective you've always

brought to the tech council is you are trying to make those international connections. And you literally,

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