Hello and welcome to the Readback podcast. I'm your host, Punchball News reporter Max Cohen,

and I'm very excited to be joined by our tech reporter Ben Brody for an exciting discussion

on the launch of the Punch Bowl News Tech quarterly product. It's the first quarterly edition of the standalone tech newsletter.

Ben, it was an awesome launch.

Thank you.

How you doing?

I am good. I am tired. I'm excited.

People really seem to be excited about this.

Got a lot of emails, got a lot of text, got a lot of DMs.

People want to subscribe. People who liked the first edition that we worked really, really hard on. So I'm

feeling really good. That's great. And I hear we had an awesome turnout earlier this week at the

social event. And we just have to say thank you to our engaged community who really showed out.

And there's just tons of interest in tech coverage. Let's get right to it. Okay, let's talk about the first

edition. We had that launch interview with a leader of not the big tech, but what movement, Ben?

Gary Tan, he's the CEO of Y Combinator.

It's the startup accelerator in Silicon Valley.

And he has kind of styled himself as the leader of Little Tech.

And Little Tech includes Little Tech, includes startups and small companies.

It also includes some medium-sized companies and, frankly some actually lowercase B big tech companies. But he kind of has this vision. Some of it

is competition, right? They don't want to be suffocated by big tech companies anymore. But some of it

is just kind of this AI forward VC VC allied or VC venture capital inspired tech of the future.

And increasingly, they're coming here to DC to make their voices heard as well.

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