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It is time for a very special 2025 recap episode with yours truly and Zach

Gronman, 2025, the year that was. It'sman 2025 the year that was it's almost over

the year that was buddy I'm all right so things but it went yes so on the serious

note and some of you saw my newsletter about this but the shooting at Brown really really

hurt me because I not only went

there, but I've spent a lot of time there. I don't know if you. A lot of me of faith time, right?

So, yeah, so I ran six training camps for venture for America that were based at Brown,

and they were based at Brown specifically because I had relationships there. I called my friend

Charlie Crowell who was working in the Entrepreneurs Department and then he called the provost and then we

managed to like get that. And so that was a real shot in the arm for a brand new nonprofit because

if you say, hey, you're, you know, training camps at Brown University. It seems very. Sounds legit. It sounds

legit. And Providence is one of our first cities. So we spent those six summers there. I spoke there earlier

this year. I actually met one of the victims who died, Ella Cook. Oh my goodness. Yeah, she was

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