Hello everyone and welcome to this audio only episode of the Colin and Samir show. Audio only, but it's a Monday, Colin, what's a deal?

The reason we're doing that is because our episode this week on YouTube is extremely visual. So we felt like it wouldn't make sense for the audio feed.

Our episode on YouTube is us reviewing creator merch. It's part of a larger series that we do where we take merch that creators make

and deem some of them winners and some of them losers. So that should be up on the channel.

If it's not up today, it'll be up this week. But check it out. Let us know what you think,

but we want us to try this format on audio this week. The format is three to one. So we will

start with three stories from the creator economy, two

questions that we got from creators that will answer and then end with one creator to watch.

All right. If you're new here, I'm Samir. I'm Colin. And we are Colin and Samir.

Collectively. We've been on YouTube for the past 10 years, and today we talk about the world of creators

and how people are building businesses online.

All right.

Three, two, one.

Let's get into it.

The first of our three stories is that the DeMilios are launching a VC fund. They're planning on raising

up to $25 million. So their fund is called For For For Capital. And this is kind of part of a

larger trend right now where we're seeing creators become investors. Creators like Cody Coe,

who has dumb money capital. I mean, ourselves, we've been investing. We've been doing

some angel investing. This happens a lot in the celebrity world, right? Like Ashton Coucher has become a big

investor. And I think it's really interesting to start to look at the world of creators picking

companies that they want to invest in. Here's what I like. I think creators

as curators is a big trend we're going to see. People who know about what works on the internet,

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