Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am

joined today by my dear friend and colleague, it's Techfront Senior

reporter on the FinTech Beat Mary Ann Asvedo.

Mary Ann, hi.

Hi, Alex, I'm so excited to see you next week.

I know. Disrupt us next week. I'm very excited excited but I feel like because I haven't actually traveled to

S.F yet I'm still in the like the stress mode you know so I fly tomorrow I'm gonna go on the

plate and get out of here and get settled and I'll feel better.

But right now, it's a little bit distracting.

And to assuage my inability to stay on topic and on track today, we have brought along

it's Kirsten Korsak, our other friend from the Tech Run's team on the transit desk.

Kirsten, hi, what are you going to disrupt?

Well if anyone can keep you on track, I'm sure it's me who has no organizational problems at all and doesn't jump around at all.

None. No. Disrupt, yeah, I'm ready. I'm also flying out early. I'm just a ball of energy,

haven't packed, haven't done anything. I'm ready though. I'm ready. I did laundry. I'm really proud of myself.

I'm proud of you too. To be clear, I often do laundry. That's not to be proud of me point.

It's the fact that I like did laundry before the last possible minute because usually it's me at like midnight taking clothes out of the dryer like where's that sock? So the fact that I've done it early means that I'm not going to panic and I'm

I'm very happy about that. Yeah I'm impressed pretty good. Thank you Mary Dan.

Alex did you pack your tech brain hat? I have not. I'm actually I'm not I don't have any

hats.

It was my attempt at a terrible joke. It's okay. You know you put like your reporter

hat on or you're you know your oh. It was poorly delivered. I see.

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