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Jeremy, thanks for joining us today. Not thanks for having me. Excited to be here.

Yeah, it is our pleasure. So how would you get it started by telling us a little bit about

yourself and what you do? Yeah, so I'm Jeremy Delke. I'm. I'm a small town kid from a town called Bargetown,

Kentucky, which is probably most notable, we're the bourbon capital of the world. So grew up in

a small town, probably 20-something thousand people, 25,000 people. It's grown quite a bit since.

And probably growing up there, I always had this ever-earning kind of feeling to want to do more, be more, and see more. And that led me on a pretty wild and twisty-turning ride. That's why I wrote a book called Without a Plan because that's kind of how I lived my life, knowing kind of where I wanted to go, but no clue on how to get there. So you've heard that adage, some Sinatra, right? You can make it here.

You can make anywhere. So New York was that kind of thing for me that I wanted to end up. And I

ended up on Wall Street through a quite interesting path. But went to school in Providence.

It was a day trader early on, made a bunch of money, lost a bunch of money as a kid.

And found myself in New York

on Wall Street. And then I ventured out about 23, 24 years ago and started Delc Enterprises, which

is my family office, venture capital firm. And we've been in, you know, I like to say we're

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