Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of corporate infighting.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting on my back patio getting the grill ready

because it is July 4th weekend and that's just what you do. This is America,

it's July 4th, it's also my birthday on July 4th, and so we sit outside and we grill

even though it's very hot and there's mosquitoes everywhere and would I rather be inside in the air conditioning looking at my television?

Yes, but it's July 4th, so we're grill and stuff.

Anyway, we have an awesome episode coming up for you today.

We are gonna basically start a tech company together. Anyway, we have an awesome episode coming up for you today.

We are going to basically start a tech company together.

Neil I Patel, Alex Kranz, and I are going to,

as a group of CEOs, which couldn't possibly go poorly,

figure out how we would build a tech company

out of the tech industry as it exists now.

It sounds a little complicated,

but I'll explain the rules when we get into it.

It'll all make sense.

But basically, I wanted to see if you were to start from scratch and say,

okay, what are the best products in tech? What can I take? What can I put together? What could we build that would be cool and different

and that we could make awesome? How would we do that? We had a lot of fun putting this

together and figured this would be a fun time to do it. It's July, the news is a little bit slow,

we're about to get into crazy gadget season again, but it felt like a fun way to take a different kind of look at the tech industry.

I should also say some credit for this whole concept goes to a podcast I really like called The Big Picture.

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