Hey podcast listeners, it's Samir. This week on the Colin and Samir show, we have part two of our

interview with Arak. And in this part of the interview, Arak actually started asking us questions.

So it's almost like he's interviewing us. But it was a really interesting conversation about

everything that comes with the career of being a creator. Of course, we like to talk about the strategies that

go into becoming a successful creator, but everything around it is equally as important,

how it takes a toll on your overall well-being, how you deal with questions of purpose, how you

deal with just everything that comes with the career of being a creator. Now, before we get into this episode, I did want to

ask all of you who listen to this podcast about what type of listening experience you would like

to hear on this show. Now, that might be a pretty open-ended question, but Colin and I have been

brainstorming around potential ideas for how to bring more audio to you. We've been talking about

testing out a daily news show about the creator economy. We've also talked about doing an audio

version of our newsletter, The Publish Press, which if you aren't subscribed to that, make sure to go

to the publishpress.com. Subscribe. If you're interested in the creator economy, I definitely think

you'll like our

newsletter, the publish press. So really curious to hear from all of you. You can email us,

Colin and Samir at gmail.com. You can tweet at us. You can DM us. We just really want to hear

from you what you would want to hear on this audio feed. Or maybe we make another show.

All right. Now for part two of our interview with

Eric. I recently read an article from Bloomberg and it was this guy. He basically said that

after working at Facebook and Google and all these companies, most of those companies,

their entire revenue model is based around ads, right? And he said that because of that,

the greatest minds of our generation, smartest people of our generation are focused on how to get

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