Hey, everybody. One of the great joys of my life is the friendships I've built during my career

in technology and startups and entrepreneurship. And one of my great friends, Mark Pesci, is down

in Australia. He moved from the United States and he's been down there for decades. And in 2014,

he started doing this week in startups, Australia. We are now in season nine, and it's about to

hit its hundredth episode. So congrats to my good friend, Mark Pesci. This season's theme is the

sweet smell of success. And it focuses on the rapid acceleration of tech adoption in 2020 and

continuing that trend in the post pandemic world. We decided we would cross post this first episode.

Maybe we'll make that a tradition in the future into the normal twist feed because the guests that

Mark are getting are just amazing. And in his first episode, it's me. So you get to hear me a

mark, chop it up to the fat and talk about life after the pandemic. So go ahead and search if you

want to hear more from Mark and this week in startups, Australia. Just go and search for Twista,

T-W-I-S-T-A, or this week in startups, Australia on all the major podcasting platforms. And you can go

to the website, T-W-I Startups, A-U-S dot com. That's T-W-I Startups, A-U-S dot com. That's their

website for this week in startups, Australia. And please follow my friend, Mark Pesci, on Twitter.

He's M-P-E-S-C-E, one of the most thoughtful, interesting, and intelligent. Good people have

ever met in my life. Love you, Mark. And thanks for doing the show. And I want to take a moment to

thank the sponsors of season nine of this week in startups, Australia. Oh, do square space and

user testing, going down under and getting all those startups and founders supported in Australia.

I do really appreciate that. And who knows? Maybe we'll have it this week in startups. I don't know,

Japan or maybe in the EU or the Nordics. Maybe there's somebody out there who wants to do it in

Africa or South America. If you're a technologist, you've been at it for a decade or something.

You've got some level of credibility and ability to host a decent discussion. Maybe we'll have

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