Speaking of abandoning things,

commentary around VCs abandoning later stage investing has opened the pathway for private equity to start eyeing off startups at those later stages.

Australian startups raise 1.5 billion across 99 deals in the three months to June 30,

making it the sector's strongest quarter in 18 months.

Mega VC deals are back, but new founders face a big problem.

It's not as easy to sell a business right now, so the likely acquirers that we may have predicted

for portfolios aren't there, so we have to go looking at other avenues.

Of the three top guys in the world on Wall Street, the blindfolded monkey beat two of them.

He beat two of them.

That's how ludicrous the idea is.

Don, how are you? Hey, buddy. I'm still here.

Thought we through it. It was just a disaster. Maggie started Saturday. And then it was Sunday night that she just, yeah.

Then Libby got sick, I guess Monday lunch and was in a little bit of a bad way.

And then we start the Chris Gillings podcast.

Libby's a trooper, right?

Like she's an absolute machine.

It would take a lot to bring her down.

And then Jack started going off.

At the same time, Maggie's going off.

And that's when in the middle of the Gilling's episode, I get thrown a baby and said,

I need you now.

And then about an hour later, Matilda goes down.

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