All right, everybody, welcome back to this weekend startups. I do a little thing here on the show

called Startup Basic. Why do I do this? And I do it every year. Well, the basic things that startups have to get

right are critically important. And if they don't get them right, everything can blow up. It's kind of like

not checking your air tire pressure or changing the brakes on your car, changing the oil.

You know, somebody gets pulled over to the side of the road, their car blows up, and they're like, what happened?

It's like, did you see the engine light was on the whole time? And they're like, yeah, I wondered what that meant. It means you have low oil. You had to get the engine checked. You didn't do it. You blew up the engine. Now, the whole startup needs to be

repaired, et cetera. And what are the areas in which I find constant frustration? Legal, accounting,

human resources, human capital. These are probably the top three things that can throw a startup

into a tailspin.

Well, one of my great pit man, you know, in the pit with me, making sure that the car stays on the track is my guy, Scott Warren.

He's from Cruise Consulting.

They're a CPA.

They're dedicated only to VC back startups.

They're awesome. They've got a bunch

of launch clients, including podcast AI. And welcome back to the program, Scott. You've even had some of

our early stage customers, our portfolio companies like superhuman income who eventually graduate

because you like to focus on the early stage like me, yeah? Totally. We call it going off the

college, actually.

And you know what?

It's always a sad day when you drop your kids off of college.

I'll find that out in about 10 years.

But for the startups, it's pretty exciting, and we're happy to, we're happy to do it.

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