Welcome everybody to the Tech Mem Ride Home experience. Today is January 20th.

We have a bunch of things as usual to talk about and Brian has a little service announcement

for those of you who have been listening to the show on a daily basis.

Yeah, the announcement is that we had a guest lined up and they were unable to get clearance from their employer to actually come on the show, which sometimes

happens, but we were trying literally up until about 15 minutes ago to make sure that they could come on and if they do somehow show up

we will of course bring them right on but this is to say that the guest that I hinted at today on the show.

Yes, it is currently not coming on.

We're gonna still talk about the topic that we had

planned but also anyone listening now if you have topics eventually to talk about, we'll do a sort of open book episode after

we get through some things.

And I will also pin my tweet that people want to reply and you know send us questions or comments that way

Awesome. Okay so what we wanted to talk about was the state of investing and VC and sort of the

startup ecosystem in 2022 because I don't know that we've kind of

really talked about it on the show but it's sort of becoming interesting a

little bit.

Let me back up and try to bring a little energy to this.

Because first of all, well obviously none of this should be taken as investment and device, do your and research, etc.

But barring that, one, this is an area that actually I would never have really felt that comfortable talking about even a couple

years ago and yet it's it's sort of become so well one everywhere two I think it's a

little bit bonkers.

3. It's kind of like, we tend to like over fit, over things or patterns or moments that we've seen in the past.

And so there's, you know, there was there was if you remember a moment where VC was going to go into like a

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