from the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to a special presentation of CUBE Conversation here from our Boston area studio. Happy to welcome back to the program from ClearSkyData, Ellen Rubin is the CEO and Las Vecueritas, who is the CTO. Las and Ellen, thanks so much for joining us. Hi Stu, nice to meet you back. All right, thanks for having us. Always good to talk to a local company. When we talk about technology, I was actually in the Seaport District earlier recently and there's a lot happening in the space. As we know, it doesn't all happen in Seattle for the cloud and Silicon Valley for all the VCs. So Ellen, I've been speaking with your company since it was the early days in stealth mode. First time I met you in person was at the Amazon re-invent show. So still one of the focal points of the cloud and everything happening there. But give us the update. You've got some new funding, some new partnerships. Tell us what's happening with Thursday. Absolutely, and I'm really happy to be back. So yeah, we've been, Las and I have been building this company together. We started in 2013 with the, sitting in a room with a whiteboard, but the company has really been actively funded and kind of building customers and our service offering since 2014. And we've just seen a tremendous amount of growth, especially in the last year. So we're excited to be able to share that we are raising a 20 million funding round. And it includes some new investors, a strategic investor, as well as some of our existing investors from General Catalyst in Highland and Polaris. So it's very important for us, but it's also great for our customers because it gives us a chance to now be in more places and have more people on our team to really grow and add to the support and the operations of what we're doing. So that's kind of part A. And we're really looking forward to doing that. We've added a head of our sales organization, our Chief Revenue Officer, Roger Cummings. And so we've really kind of filled out our team and are growing as a company overall. So that's kind of part A. So yeah, congratulations on the numbers. The other piece, I think back to the first discussions we had when you talk about living in lots of environments and how do you help customers? There was somebody that you're partnering with now that I believe came up in that first discussion because they've got one of the largest global footprints on the planet that I'm aware of. Indeed. So yeah, also today we're announcing our partnership with Equinix and we've actually been working, we've been talking with Equinix since we were in stealth mode and we've been working with them over the past several years already in a couple of locations. And we can talk in a lot of detail about sort of where the great alignment and fit is, but the news for us is that we're now gonna be able to really expand the reach of our service across the rest of the United States. So we're gonna triple the number of locations and we're gonna be basically anywhere our customers need us to be. As you know, we are a Metro based service. So it's very important from a latency and an access that we be in more locations. And we see it as basically a great jumping off for filling out the initial vision of being across the United States and now starting to expand outside. That's great. Let's pull you in here because if we look at the data piece of it, we understand that latency is clearly important. That's the conversation we've had, back in the storage world for a long time. Data has gravity, it's tough to move it. And having some locality is super important. So why don't we first, for people that aren't as familiar with the company, just give us the thumbnail architecturally and tell us what you've been seeing update-wise from a technology standpoint. Sure. So our technology is really a Metro based network. So we deliver caching services on the edge to make all of the resources, the specifically data management resources that are far away appear as if they're nearby. Now, one of the problems, as you know with the clouds is that they're only in certain locations. So unless you're in Ashram, Virginia, or you happen to be in the Pacific Northwest, you have a latency problem. And so as a result, some certain types of applications aren't gonna work well. What we've built is really an edge-based data management network. We provide high performance file and block services to systems at the edge that leverage the cloud for their backends. And so as a result, you get all of the economics of the cloud and the flexibility that you get with those types of services, but you get the experience of enterprise class, functionality and capabilities and it's nearby. So you don't miss any of the things that you are kind of used to. All right, Lars, I want you to help explain something. When you say edge, what does that mean to you and your customers? Because there are service provider edges, there are kind of the IoT end devices edges, there's some things in between there. So what specifically are you helping with? This is true. It's actually, you know, it's really interesting. So we have a very specific definition of edge. We call it the data center edge. And hence our alignment with Equinex, they are, you know, in these metro facilities, when you look at our architecture, we're either putting an edge appliance either in an Equinex facility or in a customer facility and then tethering it to the Equinex facility. And so that last hundred or so miles around an Equinex facility is our edge. And that is going to be our definition. Now that can change over time, just like everything else in the cloud changes, because we basically have built software that can run in any type of a Linux environment with some amount of connectivity. But, you know, in our current market push, our edge is really the data center edge. Yeah, Alan, I love that that really fits into the discussions I've been having a lot over the last year or so. When people talk about hybrid cloud, when they talk about multi-cloud, it's that, you know, they're using lots of SaaS. They're usually using more than one public cloud provider. And then they have their own resources. And their data center oftentimes is a, you know, rack and Equinex and leveraging things like the Direct Connect from Amazon, the equivalent for Google and Microsoft, or, you know, expanding those definitions. Bring us inside, what are you hearing from customers? I'd love to hear what you can share about, you know, specific customers or in general, you know, what's the need that they have and where you will fit into all of it? Yeah, no, you're totally on point for what we see every day, which is, you know, we deal with medium and large enterprises. So our customers are in healthcare, they're in financial services, they're in the legal services and also in managed service providers now as a newer market for us. So we have customers that include companies like Partners Healthcare, Mesh General Hospital, Nuance Communications. We've just added Unitas Global as a managed service provider. Special Olympics is a customer and then some regional hedge firms and law services like Miles and Stockbridge. So what you can kind of see is that we have this really nice set of experiences that are not just, you know, what is, you know, Facebook doing or what is State Street doing, but we kind of have a broad range of what CIOs and heads of IT are really struggling with. And it's exactly what you're saying, which is the edge to a customer, very much depends on how they're thinking about where their applications are gonna run. And our philosophy is, don't worry about it, we've got you covered. Your data is gonna be, you know, high performance, low latency, totally protected and you can access it from wherever you need to. But for a lot of customers, honestly, we've seen everything and I won't embarrass anybody specifically, but you know, there are still some kind of scary old data centers out there. There are server closets that are acting like data centers. People still have things in their buildings. And then you've got everything to like the world-class Equinix, Colo that is an Ashburn or whatever. And then people are obviously trying to adopt multiple shades and flavors of public cloud. And I just was out at a customer yesterday where the CIO was talking to us about the fact that they had grown through a tremendous amount of acquisition. So they've got one of everything.  Then they decided to standardize on Azure. They don't really know why they standardize on Azure. Then they realized that that was not actually the answer for all their problems. And then they started to think about how Google might actually be a much better fit because of some of the analytics work they're trying to do. And by the way, they've got data centers all over the world. That is a very typical scenario that we see every day. And for the customers, hedging their bets and not being locked into anything is really, really important to them because the applications keep evolving and new things are getting in some ways built for the cloud. But sometimes the edge actually still is critical, right? In terms of where the actual physical source systems are. Yeah, so I would say the elephant in the room is that kind of, how do I get my arms around this multi-cloud environment? And there's not one company that's gonna solve all of these issues I've had. And even if they did, would you really put everything in one cloud? Probably you wouldn't. Well, right, but it's the, okay. I've got all of these clouds out there and all of these things. I have licensing issues I have to worry about. I have identity management I have to worry about. There's the overall management of it. And it seems primarily it's the networking piece that you're helping with. Maybe explain a little bit more in the last part of what comes to you as to, that elephant there, it's clear sky data. We solve your networking challenge for multi-cloud and it's more than just that. Right, so it's sometimes embarrassingly. I actually started my career in the networking space. And so, you know, a lot of- It's okay, I did too. So when Ellen and I started talking about what we wanted to do, we were really focused on networking. Maybe I had enough of storage. And so, you know, a lot of what we discovered was that the network is an extremely sort of, undersold part of the overall cloud strategy of any company. If you really want to go to the cloud, this is really about moving huge amounts of data back and forth from these locations. And so we've built a very, very high performance, one hop network from our pops, right to all of the various regions of the public clouds. So what this basically means for our customers is that they don't have to worry about the internet. They don't have to worry about the security that they need to set up in order to get into the cloud. And the amount of throughput that we can get through is really astonishing. So we've really built a system that can maximize this network pipe. So, you know, just even our smallest customers can move in excess of 20 terabytes a day back and forth from the cloud. So this becomes a really, really interesting, you know, solution if you have a lot of source systems or you have a lot of data to move, we can outrun that Amazon truck. So I want you to, you know, I think back five years ago, I heard Equinix, some of the other large data centers, they were like, oh, well, we're just going to give you a cloud marketplace and there'll be all these services. And if you need to access something, you know, we'll just be able to throw a 10 gig wire between some of these connections. It sounded really good, but it sounds like you're helping to fill a gap. Maybe explain what that is. Well, so most of the networking pieces are actually very expensive, very complicated to set up, first of all. So you also have core charges and all sorts of high availability issues that you need to resolve with each one of the clouds. Additionally, although they are sort of on demand, you know, you're not using all this bandwidth all the time and you don't know when you're going to need it. What we've done on the network is to make it possible for you to utilize, you know, 40 gigabits of throughput, our 40 gigabits of throughput into the cloud and pretty much whenever you need it. So for example, latency from Boston to Amazon East, for us, 11 milliseconds. For most people, if they don't have direct connects at some exuberant price, they're going to end up experiencing in the hundreds of milliseconds if they're going over the internet. So that and the bandwidth guarantee is, you know, you think you have a one gigabit internet connection, but that's not really what all the elements along your path are going to provide you. So there's a lot of variability and we make that all go away. We make the management go away. We make the security issues go away and it's so totally seamless. You just need to connect into our network with our edge. You know, just it's as if the cloud really isn't there and if you need to access the resources in the cloud, we can bring your data to EC2 and you can connect instances to it. So it's the whole process of moving things back and forth is so seamless and transparent. You just don't manage it. It's all sort of a byproduct of the architecture. I was just going to add, you know, equinex invested early and better early on becoming a cloud hub and, you know, this idea of having the cloud exchange and a lot of the other services that are plugged in is a tremendous value to customers. But what we do see is that, you know, there are still a lot of customers out there and I'm sure this will persist for a while where there's still even yet further distributed last mile issues and customers are moving into, you know, equinex and co-location sites for all the benefits that they bring and we take, you know, full advantage of that and help drive that from our side. But we also see that there are things that are just not moving and need to stay put and it's either because of legacy reasons, compliance reasons, they don't want to invest to re-platform things. There are a lot of reasons that are out there and because we both come from the enterprise infrastructure world that does not scare us. So we understand that what you have to do is you have to meet the customer where they live, right? And you have to make it easy and accessible and as Laz is describing kind of a turnkey situation where however your application wants to run and be best, you know, situated, we're gonna make sure that your data is available to you. Yeah, you bring up some great points there. A line I've used it many times recently is there was the promise that, you know, cloud was going to be simple and cheap and it turns out to be neither of those. What do you see as some of the biggest challenges, Ellen, that if we start with you maybe, is that, you know, what are your customers facing? What are you excited about that's actually made progress the last few years and what do we still need to do as an industry as a whole? Well, I always have to say this and of course it makes me just feel completely so old but, you know, I've been in the cloud since 2008, right?  It happens to be Amazon, but there'll be other clouds too. So you have to say, fast forwarding 10 years, a lot of really good progress has been made and it is for sure the case that now when you talk to enterprise customers and to the CIOs, they're in the cloud, they've adopted the cloud.  They've accepted the fact that developer groups are already in the cloud and have been for a very long time and that it's there, it's part of their portfolio now to make sure it's protected and highly available and compliant. So I think that is progress. I also, the best thing that ever happened was I don't have to convince people that the cloud is more secure than what they're doing on-prem because everybody kind of knows that. So that's good news. We don't have to have that conversation 20 times again, et cetera. But what I do see that's surprising to me is that still some of the fundamental problems are still problems. So getting my data into the cloud. You'd think, come on, we've got lots of solutions, tools and toolkits and stuff like that but it's still a very major problem, networking of course being a key issue for customers. I don't wanna have to roll out a bunch of new lines. I don't wanna have to hire a snowmobile. I don't wanna have to rebuild everything from scratch. So that is still, I think shows up more than I would have guessed. Right now what we see is there's a lot of focus on operational things in terms of how to optimize what turned out to be the high costs of the cloud. Every one of our customers knows that if you pull data back from the cloud, that's not good. So they learned that, they found that out and then they were kind of a little surprised probably the first time the bill came in and it was really high. So this idea of having tools that allow optimization of using the cloud more cost effectively and figuring out which cloud is gonna be more cost effective based on the access patterns. There's more awareness of it but there's still a lot of struggling with that. Last but not your comment on that. Well, the whole notion of cost optimization is deeply embedded in our technology. And every time we have a conversation with a customer the first thing they ask about egress fees is it really just the same price no matter how much I use it. And they think about all of these different like things about IOPS for example because the cloud providers have sort of indoctrinated the market to think about what their IOPS needs are in order to get them into the appropriate price point. So there's a lot of optimization there that I still don't think that the customers really grok. How many people really understand how many IOPS a particular application really needs and how many should I buy?  And so the ability to solve those types of problems for people in a way where it becomes a non-issue is still, certainly we're doing it for storage but there are all sorts of issues just like that for compute. There are all sorts of issues like that for networking as well. And so anyone who's trying to build an application on top of this platform really needs to think about those things. And so thankfully our customers don't have to worry about a whole slew of things because we've actually arbitraged out all of the unusual aspects of the tariffs of network providers versus cloud providers access fees and transaction fees, et cetera. But anyone who's doing this needs to think about this in a very analytical way which I don't think IT has been used to up until now. They overbuy as you know and they continue to overbuy and as long as there's no complaints about performance and there are no complaints about excesses in cost everything is fine. That's not how the cloud works. And I think we're getting to the point now where any serious move to the cloud is going to require a lot more thinking and a lot more analysis. And because there's still a mentality that the cloud is cheaper and then when people try it they quickly realize like, oh my God, look at this bill. And it's forever.  It's every month.  And so it's a difficult problem and I don't think IT's prepared in general. I think one of the things that we've seen at Clear Sky over the past several years is the willingness that customers have to use the cloud for data protection. I think when we started it was sort of, everything's going to the cloud. The whole thing, damn the torpedo is full speed ahead, right? And I think a lot of what people are actually doing is archival, backup DR. Those are comfortable state of the industry is sort of that there should be a connection between the on wherever bottom premium is for the customer and then out to the cloud for the things that are the longer tail kinds of things. The problem is, what if you have to pull the data back? So these are things we think about every day. All right, Ellen, what I want to give you the final word, $20 million raised the strategic partnership with Equinex that's going to increase availability. What does this mean to your customers and to the company Clear Sky as we look forward? Well, I think one of the things that's true about the fact that we are a network-centric kind of a company is that the power of the network is in how many access points you have. So what this means is that customers who are national and then global have more opportunity now to be able to access things with Clear Sky and to grow and expand with us, which is great. We've seen tremendous expansion business this year. Really, like a huge percentage of our business has already expanded at least once, if not multiple times with us. And that begs a lot of questions, well, okay, that's great, you're here with us in this metro, how do we get across the rest of our locations? So I think that's very valuable. And also obviously from our side, making sure that we can handle the care and support that our customers are expecting, we're fully managed 24 by seven. So the bar is high, right? And this is not the, here's a toolkit in the cloud, go figure it out. This is, we take care of everything, we're an SLA to you and that's it. And obviously the customer wants to see that scale. Well, Ellen West, congratulations on all the progress that you made and always great to catch up with you on all the updates. Great to see you. All right, and thank you so much for watching. Be sure to check out theCUBE.net for all of our coverage, including, we're at all the cloud shows of the huge show at Amazon re-invent at the end of November. Be sure to tune into that and everything else. Feel free to reach out if you've got questions for our team or teams that you'd like us to cover other events we should be at. I'm Stu Miniman, thank you for watching theCUBE.


Cymru newyddol sy'n cei, ond bod ystod ni'n cy braking ar gael y rôl?配rwy'n gweithio, neu hwn ar hyn sy'n rôl. Rym ni'n cael ei fath am wieithio wahanol shineid. Felly mae'r holl, mae'r holl yn amlifio, y gallwn gwneud byddiol. Meddwl y gallwn gwneud os y pwysig, reall yn ei wahanol ffyrdd. Mae'n amlifio fel y moradd a'i'n rôl. Mae rôl yn gweithio'n chyfer gyda o'r rôl, a'i dim wnaeth o'r fath. o ran i compete o'r ddrae. Ond yn y Remiliaidon, mae'n amser nodd i'u newid am ymddangos a'n achos o'r ddysgu'n cerddwyr gyda'n gynghle, ond mae'n defnyddio'r dddoniau a'r ddod o'r ddod o'r ddod o'r ddod o'r stryb. Rydw i'n meddwl glywed o'r ddod o'r bydlen a fyddwch chi'n fwy'r gwlad fel'r newid o'r ddod o'r pwysig ac mae'n rhan i hynny gweld i'u ei ddod o'r fath. on Thursday we've got to have a good look over and see where the things we weren't wrong and things we can improve and you know, listen, we'll, as part of football and we'll recover and we'll go, we'll go again and we've got to improve as simple as that. Obviously a new manager in the dugout at MK don't sound, probably made it difficult for us didn't it in terms of knowing what to expect and I guess to an extent preparing for tonight's game. Yeah, again they're a good team and they've got some lovely patterns of play and they cut us open numerous times to be honest with you. Obviously the hard part to take is because there was numerous times they cut through us and as I said if that was maybe like we're kind of caught in between times you know and we've kind of went to press and they've kind of played through us and listen there's going to need to be a time where we recover in shape and at times we were a bit a little over the place and that's not what we've been because what we've been is we've been compact as a team in and out of possession and when you are that's a team you are able to win the ball back, you know it'll play forward quick and tonight it wouldn't seem to be that way but yeah credit to them because they played some nice stuff and it was a tough evening for everyone. In terms of positives to take obviously it's a lovely strife from Gilly to draw his level Harris Chapman back on the pitch and we had spells in the game didn't we, is there enough for you to step forward into Saturday anything? Of course there is, listen we've been beating a game of football, we've done well these last few games and that's that like you won't see me going too deep into it and looking into this and that like it's one of the things we've been beating on in the evening we know ourselves we came well away from what we've been in the last few games and that's that's it like we had spells in the game of course we did we knew we would do we knew we pressed right at the right times and there'd be joy and the goal was the absolute way off it but you know maybe there's a time when they do pop through us which they did numerous times also then we need to come back into shape as a group and maybe the recovery's got to be faster and maybe we've got to look more into the stuff we kind of walked on but again there's plenty of positives as much as a as much as the 401 plus and look at positives and it's positive to think so when we've done the things right we've done them and we got we got a couple of chances we played some audit football at times but not good enough on the evening that's that. On Saturday I guess this case of putting it behind us to a certain extent going again and knowing doing what we know we can do what we have been doing these past few games. Yeah like again as I say it's a game of football we've been beating like there'll be there'll be other ones to come like that's that's that's how it is like that's how football works but listen we've set a standard and we fell below that standard we expect better the fans expect better, the fans deserve better, the people who have came down tonight we know it's not good enough and we look to rectify that on Saturday and it's good that we get a game come sticking fast because listen we're going to go there and we need to go there and dominate it's a completely different style of football that we're going to be against on Saturday unless we need to pick ourselves up and we need to be ready to go and listen let me tell you one thing we will be ready to go because we want we don't want performance that we want to accept it as a player as a coach whatever it may be.


It was look guys Just woke up Around 6 30 right now Leaving out of town today Literally woke up just through through a shirt on there's some pants. I'm not taking shower yet I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the gym try to get a workout in pretty tired I don't I don't think it's gonna be a bad workout though pretty early in the morning should be too many people at the gym, so Let's see how it goes That's why I'm going so early. I mean I got a load I got a pretty good bit of sleep last night or pretty good bit of sleep for like this summer What's been going on cuz like my average like hours of sleep a day this summer has been like Probably three hours just due to tournaments and stuff like going to bed 12 waking up at 3 o'clock But I went to bed like at 1 1 30 last night. It was kind of late because like oh I was editing videos and stuff Yeah, I went to bed like around 1 1 30 ish 6 o'clock right now going to the gym, so I Guess I'll catch you guys after relieving out of town later today We're not we're not in a rush or anything, so I mean we're gonna be in Kentucky for like 12 days We're in a rush Catch you guys after Pretty tired right now. There's no hypering now, so I know if you guys are bored because there's no hype You know what I mean, just give me a little bit. I'll get up there. I give my energy levels flowing. Just wait till after All right, I'll catch you guys in the video. Yo, what up? Just came back Pretty good workout. Not gonna lie. I didn't think it was gonna be bad. So I just woke up That had the fire in my belly, you know Um Actually just some cardio for once I did like 10 minutes of cardio before I weight during And that's that's rare for me Really rare, but it wasn't packed so that was good Like yesterday I went around five o'clock and that was freaking horrible. So I got a good workout. So Making sure I got into a nip so the action going on So I'm gonna go home Eat, I'm probably not yeah, I'm not some breakfast. It's only eight o'clock I'm gonna eat take a shower and get my day started off. Right guys. This is this feels really good to do this I haven't been able to do this this summer because of fishing Fishing just takes over like I haven't worked out in like two months. I'm finally getting back into it I won't really start like truly into working out until like August because I'm about to leave for nationals today, so Gotta do what I gotta do. So I'll catch you guys in a little bit We home people it's time for me to get I'm gonna go eat a meal take a shower and then I'll catch back up with you guys I don't want to bore you too much I lied I'm back with breakfast. I'm gonna fog up right here. Whoa It's pretty good Ready to knock this away You best to know I ate it all About to leave the house got a shower and everything now starting off I think I'm gonna go to extreme first. Give that stuff done Here's some stuff I'm taking out of town in nationals. Got some hoorags. Got some t-shirts Some flat bills also have some regular hats like that, but they're They're um They're already in the boat and everything or in the back of the truck. So Also have to package that up to ship up Let's get out of here Get the stage started I'll wait on the monster for right now All right, it's cool. So going to extreme first Then I gotta go pick up some baits that were just some wobble heads.  So I'm getting those made so they're all they're all ready For everyone. Let's head to extreme and get a few things over with we didn't finish everything yesterday So I just gotta do a few things grab a few um separate baits and then throw all the drinks in the boat. So Let go All right, we're here people We're at extreme Just go ahead and get these little quick errands done Back ups The water's high. You never know what's gonna happen.  It's everything we need Got the kick in their bass tv stuff um shirts hats who rags Everything you need I think we're good to go. I'm gonna pick up the boat later once my dad gets here. All right. Just got out of the extreme Got everything that was pretty quick not too long. Now. I'm gonna run the kruger or not kruger. There's a public's Right over here. So I'm just gonna run the public's real quick Take a few seconds Just need to grab a few things and you grab some ice Need to grab some lettuce and some green beans We asked about it So I'm gonna go there do that and then go pick up those wobble heads And also I have some business cards being made that should be done before I leave. So I'm leaving here. It's 11 20 right now I'm leaving around three So Should be good Should be good If we get those business cards on time that'd be perfect I believe he just has to print them off and or actually I believe he already has them pretty He just has to cut them. So it should be pretty good And I can't wait to get those so I can start handing them out to you guys and stuff, especially new fans Yo, yo, yo here I public's the party house Hey, dude Usually just go to kruger. He's just not awkward because I'm sure I don't know that many people here Stuck a grape in my mouth and he was like you're munching man.  You know when I'm like hugging by myself Like you gotta like check the corners and stuff Make sure nobody's watching He gets really awkward, you know, I mean, isn't there just watching you like talk to a camera like Yo, I'm not weird, you know what I mean You don't know what I mean. So you actually do it and then it's really Really annoying.  That was a freaking lady Oh my god public's They're like always so nice. So there's So, dude Watching them talk to a camera. Yeah Yo, we're in publics. They're always like so nice.  They're like, sir, would you like this out?  I saw somebody in there from fourth grade.    He's the one eating in this car, you know what I mean You know what I mean Didn't that mom right there in the Jeep? It don't matter.  I'm feeling it. That guy just watched me do that You know, this is one of the most awkwardest things ever because at this very moment me and this dude are just staring at each other It looks like he's eating Chipotle already got my seat belt on looks like he's eating Chipotle. I'm just drinking a white monster over here Awkward yo shout out these people representing Look at this People got fishing poles in their car I don't know if you can see that in the van this person representing Right there Boss man Shout out to that Camaro right there. I see that thing everywhere The speed limit's only 30 man. Come on now You can get over 10 get it. Come on man. You got this I don't know what this dude's doing, but we're we're just driving. All right. We're just driving straight. Everything's all right Green light and everything and they just stomps on his brakes. Like I mean he stomped on him I don't know what he was thinking. I mean he had a green light. It wasn't like Man paranoid. Please don't take a ride. Always take a left Turn Oh, yes You know the funniest thing about that guy turning left is that was a dead end They've been working on that rim for a while. He literally just turned I thought he's gonna turn in that subdivision. He didn't even turn in the subdivision. He's just going straight and do a dead end Oh great He's lost. That's what that's what was going on. I understand Forgot to go pick up the baits got turned around Got turned around We're good. We're good. We're good You know a funny story Man why'd you have to turn funny story About going to this place this mysterious place that I'm picking up the baits from Is that was when I got pulled over you remember when like I know you guys saw that post on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter Where I got pulled over in the Jeep And everyone was like you better be vlogging I wasn't vlogging, but I gotta be careful Be careful Feel this race Let's go.  I don't know if you understand how big I'm freaking crazy I'm gonna need those. I currently don't sell those right now the one-ouncers But if you guys want me to I can't Um, leave a comment below what you think Start commenting guys. I know you guys are watching the videos start commenting Yo, I made it out safe. That would have been the funniest thing if I looked in my mirror and there was a cop behind me I don't know at least Made it safe though, and I have never seen that building before That that is the most awkwardest thing ever. I don't know when they built that but they must have put How long have I been gone for fishing trips?  That's the that's awkward I thought that was my old Jeep for a second I was like, no I don't want to see them Well This don't look too good All right, you guys got to go back to extreme side here at a mill Went upstairs kind of downloaded some footage on the computer. Um, kind of over over viewed it I want my package to be here As you guys saw in yesterday's vlog or the vlog before this one I told you I was gonna have a secret pass package delivered But it hasn't been here yet and I really wanted to be here before I leave out town It's one o'clock and we're leaving around three and I really want that package And I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you what it is. It's under armor. I got a bunch of I got like four new pairs of under armor or three new pairs of under armor shoes and a pair of slides and also um Some clothes like shoes and shirts and I really wanted before I got out of town I know my mom can bring it next week like once the tournament starts Like who wants that man? I want to wear it now. You know what I mean? Girl, I never stops guys. Girl. I never stops. Oh Man, I thought I saw the package there for a second. I was a little excited Fellow kicking the bass tv fans We are going to extreme to pick up the bolt Let's go I'm gonna grab the new business cards. It's just right around the corner We'll grab them. We got them ready in time. Hopefully the under armor man She got the new business cards. You're looking good. I got everything on them The reason I'm covering that up is because of my number. I don't want any like trolls on the internet These are my sponsors on the bag They look pretty solid. It's got like the swish that's on the boat. I like them. Look good. Look mean Good Yes, sir. Thank you Perfect timing right before we left Dave shout out the under armor Right on time There's three right there.  Even with the shirt.  We both looked at each other and we're just like, oh Look at this gum Swedish fish gum Pretty good We fished FLW Nationals there. We're going to Antarctica Africa Canada Just like 14 streets, California all at the same time We always stop at like the same exits crazy Shout out to under armor, man. I'm digging them. I'm digging them Gotta go to the bathroom bad Nice, good Gotta give me a beer Might make me a little more smarter, you know what I mean? God it's difficult you can't explain it Totally going to ham on these a but it is what it is when you're on the road I could tell you tournament days. It's gonna be like two to three a day What would you find in the in the woman's restroom?  We're still an hour away And we're we're settling on nine o'clock. We're actually Actually, it is 750 it's eight o'clock. So we're an hour back.  I want to All right freaking 11 o'clock ed Taking a schmedly You pulling a chris taking a schmedster first fortune to Investigate new possibilities with friends now is the time I got two more to open before the tournament. So You'd be waiting. All right guys sign out the vlog for today. Just got here. It's really late Um, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Um, give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it Leave a comment below If you have something to say And I'll catch you guys tomorrow, but not tomorrow on youtube world But I'll catch you guys in the next vlog starting tomorrow pre-fishing day number uno Peace guys


I am so pleased to accept your endorsement. For whatever reason, media does not talk a lot about one of the most serious crises facing this country. And that is the plight of millions of seniors, disabled vets, and folks with disability. We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We have seen in recent years a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. But at the same time, millions of seniors, disabled veterans, and people with disabilities are struggling to try to survive on $11,000, $12,000, $13,000 a year. And you know what? You cannot survive on $11,000, $12,000, $13,000 a year. Can't be done. You can't pay for the healthcare that you need. You can't pay for the prescription drugs you need. You can't heat your home in the winter. You can't buy the food you need if you are living on $11,000 or $12,000 a year. Now in the midst of that, many of my Republican colleagues have a brilliant idea. They think that while millions of seniors are struggling to survive on inadequate social security funding and benefits, they think we should either privatize social security or make massive cuts to social security. Now can you imagine somebody talking about cutting social security on people who are trying to get by on $11,000 or $12,000 a year? That is crazy. That is unconscionable and that is wrong. We will not allow that to happen. So this is what I say to my Republican colleagues in the Senate and the House. No, you're not going to cut social security. You are going to expand social security benefits. A great nation is judged not by how many millionaires and billionaires it has. It is judged by how we treat the weakest and most vulnerable amongst us. Our parents and our grandparents raised us. They built this country. We are not going to turn our backs on them. Now the simplest and most straightforward way to deal with social security today is a very, very simple principle. And that is to understand that right now we have somebody making $5 million a year. Somebody making $118,000 a year. They are both contributing the same amount into the Social Security Trust Fund. If you lift that cap, and you don't have to start at $118,000, you can start at $250,000 and go up from there and have people, $250,000 or more, paying the same percentage of their incomes in social security tax as somebody making $40,000 a year, you can extend the life of social security from 19 years to 58 years. Number two, you can significantly raise benefits for seniors and disabled vets who are earning less than $16,000 a year. We expand benefits by $1,300 every year. No small thing. Second of all, there has been this absurd idea called a chain CPI. You don't know what a chain CPI is. What it is is an effort to cut social security by claiming that the cost of living adjustments that seniors receive are too high. Anybody here know what the cola that seniors receive this year is? Zero. Now, when you get a zero cola increase, how is that too high? How do you cut it? It's an absurd idea. So what we are going to do is have a segregated index for seniors really looking at what seniors expenditures are which are disproportionately higher for healthcare and prescription drugs, meaning they need more than general inflation accounts for. So, furthermore, let me say this, we are not going to strangle social security administration. We are not going to continue to close down field offices, cut back on workers. Seniors and disabled vets deserve to have the highest quality service. When they have a problem, when they have a question, they deserve a timely answer. And that means we need to have a well-staffed, well-trained workforce in social security. First point that I want to make, which is a parallel issue, many of our seniors are struggling with the high cost of prescription drugs. And I have a long history of taking on the pharmaceutical industry, and together we are going to end the rip-off of the American people by the drug companies who are charging us outrageously high prices. And lastly, I want to acknowledge the presence of my dear friend, somebody who I have known from the day that I was elected to Congress, Marcy Captor of Ohio, one of the great members of the United States Congress. Thank you all, thank you all very, very much. And let me just thank all of you who are working for the Social Security Administration. I know that these are hard times. And I know that you are aware that every day there are people in Congress who want to make your life more difficult in terms of your ability to provide quality services to the people that we represent. So I thank you so much for hanging in there, and I very much appreciate your support today.


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley with another MVP Buzz Chat, and I'm talking today with Abou. Hello. Hi. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your late evening. I know it's a slight time difference here. It's in the middle of the night for you. For folks that don't know you, who are you, where are you, and what do you do? Oh, thank you so much. My name is Abou Conde from Ghana, but currently I'm based in France. I'm working here. I just came in France one year ago, and I was the first MVP in Ghana, so that was... Congratulations. That's a big deal. Yeah, thank you so much. But now, since then, we have more MVP coming up, and we are doing a lot of things online in Ghana. So that's actually what I'm doing. I'm now focused on cybersecurity. Recently, I just got a job at Avanade. That's where I am now currently. Which I just saw today, there's a social post, something like 80 MVPs or something like, I don't know what the number is, 70 or 80 MVPs at Avanade, which I'm pretty confident is the most of any company in the world. That's true. That's very cool. And so again, what your MVP is in the Azure, but where specifically, it's such a broad category. So what are your areas of focus? Yeah, my focus is on identity, network security. So those areas, yeah. There's a lot that's happening with the Intra release and all that. That's not my space at all. In fact, I had a conversation with somebody on my product team today, where I worked for an ISV. It's like, do you know anybody that's working on Intra? And I'm like going to LinkedIn, I've got second degree connections with a couple dozen people in that space. But I'm like, I don't know anybody first connection. And so we're trying to make inroads in a Microsoft now, just to learn more about it and to talk with the product team. Okay, I see. We are trying to learn every day. I started with on-prem Windows server virtualization and joined Azure. We're gone. Now we are doing network server and government in Azure and then security. That's what I do most of the time. Networking. I see you're working with a lot of companies that are still on-prem or hybrid. Are you helping with those transitions? Yes, a lot of migration. The hybrid scenario, there is identity, Windows Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. At the same time, network and site-to-site VPN and express route configuration and security. Most of the time, that's what we do. I know a lot about migrations on the data side and the system. I spent many years working within that space and I know enough to always then go and work with an identity specialist to answer a lot of the harder questions of how it should be configured, especially in a hybrid world. I know that a lot of organizations that I've worked with over the years made so many investments into their on-premises systems. They can't afford to walk away from that, but they want to also leverage the cloud. In Ghana, in Africa, we are really, really moving slowly because most of the time they don't trust cloud. We don't have a lot of data centers in Africa. In Ghana, no data center like South Africa. They are always concerned about, where are you going to keep my data? It was a big deal to get the data centers for South Africa. Are there plans for Microsoft to open up any other data centers in Africa? No, I don't know. I really don't know, but we've been talking about it to Microsoft. I don't know when it's coming, because that's the serious business there and customer with where my data is going to reside. Europe, South Africa, Europe even closer to us than South Africa, even though we are on the same continent. A lot of people don't know that too. A lot of, I think the African subcontinent was all out of, was it out of the UK? Where was the data center before South Africa? Was it UK? Primarily? No, Netherlands. Netherlands. Okay. Yeah. So that's something that, and I'm surprised that we've not heard anything. I mean, if I'm correct, was it, hasn't Nigeria also gone back and forth to South Africa as biggest economy in Africa a couple times? Yes. And you'd think that there'd be a data center there, you know, and Ghana? Of course. Yeah. That's what we want. At least West Africa, because South Africa is very, very far from us, but West Africa, Nigeria is a big place. It's a big country. The economy is doing well. I think we should have one data center at least in Nigeria, so that we will use in West Africa. Yeah. Well, maybe we can pressure Microsoft into that. I have to believe with so much that the business is growing so quickly that Microsoft must have plans for other data centers there that just maybe aren't announced yet, but I'm not on top of what they're doing there. But again, I was trying to, with the opening in South Africa, and I had hoped to be in country when the grand opening there and planning, doing an event, and it just, it didn't work out schedule-wise. It got delayed. Yes. Yes. I remember that time around 2018. Right. We were talking about it here. Yep. Well, very cool. So tell me, what was your journey to become an MVP? Was it something that you tried to do for a while, or what was your path? Oh, even a long journey. Before, that was before 2015, I started learning Asia aggressively, and then the thing was, I can see that I was the only person who was interested in the cloud computing. It was new to all of us, and I wanted to have a way to get people to discuss about it and learn together. So I decided to create a community with my friends, my colleague, and I used to teach in Ghana as a certified trainer at the IPMC. So I informed some of my students, hey, why can't we form a community so that we start learning together and share ideas and prepare ourselves and pass a different exam. So we had a study group, and people saw it, it was interesting, and we contacted Microsoft Ghana, asked them that if you can use the conference room, they accepted. So we started having regular meetings there. That's when I started to see other MVPs to go to know about them, start to reach out to them, to say, hey, this is what we are doing. But that was before COVID. So they couldn't come to Ghana and attend and come and speak at events. It was very, very complicated because no sponsorship and nobody believed in what we were seeing, what we were doing. So I was just doing that one with some of the friends. And later, because we saw that, okay, Microsoft Office in Ghana is nice, but they say we have an event in Microsoft Office, people want to come. They have to come, meet, discuss, and that's what I was doing until I met one MVP from South Africa. And he said, hey, Abu, what you are doing is good. I think you can become an MVP. How do I become MVP? So I had to go through with him, some coaching about how I can become MVP. Yeah. Who was that MVP? Who was? Lawrence. Lawrence already. He was in Ghana some time ago. So we had a discussion and really that opened my eyes how to go about it and organize the first bootcamp, Agia Bootcamp, Global Bootcamp. So I got some other MVPs from India and France. And there's Patrick Kimone. I don't know if you know him. I know Patrick Well. Yeah, in France. Yeah. So Patrick, even the one nominated me to become MVP. Well, that's in this something, I think it's a great example of, so I've started you user groups where I've looked around and said, hey, there's a user group that's doing this, but there is a couple hours drive. They're not, rarely people from my area were going over to this. And so I said, I want to start something up. This is when I was in Northern California. So for those that know the East Bay, all the meetings were happening down in San Jose, which with the traffic was like a two hour drive away from where I was living. And I said, well, why can't we do something over here? And so went and talked with people said, hey, let's together, let's start something up. And so we just started meeting together. And it wasn't a Microsoft related user group, but Microsoft, a lot of the local community colleges and universities are happy to if you're doing something that's free and open. And, you know, they're you're sometimes happy to host community activities, they make space for that and can host you. So there's, you know, finding facilities isn't typically the hardest part. It's getting the word out. Yeah, yes. That was the difficult aspect of it. But because we've been working with the Microsoft, the company I used to work with, I had a former colleague called named Diane. So she was my former colleague. She joined Microsoft. And I say, hey, now my colleague is working at Microsoft. I explained to her that Diane, can we come in and listen? Okay, no problem. So since then we started having the bootcamp and we really, really got supported from like everybody was supporting the idea. So people keep coming. It comes to a time that we could even host the event there because a lot of people was coming always. And Microsoft 365 team to really help me used to stand as a goodies t-shirt. And so we shared that one and people see that they really, really want to come and join us. A lot of people was, I mean, I was a really surprised because the way it started and how people took it was really serious. Yeah, that's great. And I know that are you leveraging the Microsoft community tenant for your user group stuff? Or do you? Yes. Okay. That's what Microsoft is. When COVID came. So I think we were one of the first community, because I reached out to the community program manager. She's in France. I reached out to her. They say, can we have a free tenant? But that time there was no free tenant. Right. I don't know if that's what motivated them to build a free tenant for people and share. Yeah, I think that there were so many requests, similar requests coming in right at the start. And I mean, it had been discussed for a while inside Microsoft. I know because a lot of the people that own and drive that community tenant and people don't know what we're talking about. There is a Microsoft Teams community tenant. It's like MSFT community is the name of the tenant. And it's set up for free for user groups and other events. So even if you're doing like an annual event, like the Azure Bootcamp, if you want to host the Azure Bootcamp, you can go and create a site, have all the assets, collaborate and use that so that you have the same place to go back to all the members that were there. They're already added in.  They're already in there. You can use that for user groups and other stuff. So yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, that's when that was 2020. So because there was no Microsoft closed the office and we were there two months and people was asking me, can't we do online events? I say, I don't have a platform where we can do online events. But luckily for us, we got a Microsoft to accept that to give us there. Yeah, that's great. It's a, yeah, that's something, again, there are resources that are out there. There's an entirely, I don't know if you're aware of this too, there's an, they're even upgrading that entire community tenant experience. So they're, like over in the collaboration space, there were for years, the SharePoint Saturday events all over the world. And of course, now that it's not just about SharePoints, about teams, and it's about Azure and Power Platform and kind of all these different areas all in one. So they've kind of rebranded it as the Microsoft or M365 community days. And any regions like, you know, you can go and reach out to Microsoft and say, hey, I'd like to schedule an annual event, a community day event. And there's resources, they, Microsoft, you know, there's some funding that's even available where needed, but just tremendous resources, as well as it allows you to then tap into, if you're going to do a hybrid event, so have some people in person as well as online, it actually will give you access to potentially sponsors and speakers and more Microsoft contacts for your region. So they're making it easier to do what you and I have both done painfully on our own without the resources. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. It's really, really true. That's true. And I can say like, because when I was in Ghana, the first challenge I was fixing about the community was to get a speaker. It was very difficult for me to get some speakers because really the Microsoft specialists, there are no many in Ghana. Okay, so the first year we got all the people to speak, so we wanted the new people to speak. We had to record the same people again to come and do it, but COVID online, so I got to reach out to everywhere, people from everywhere. So a lot of people are from everywhere in the world coming to speak online to our events and I'm happy about that. And some people even, they were not MVPs and they reached out to me, they want to speak to my events and that was their first time and today they are even MVPs. That's fantastic.  Yes, so people start to do in person now, gradually they are doing it in person. Last week I was in London for an event, it was my first time overseas since December of 2019. So I actually had in 2020, I had three or four international trips scheduled and which obviously was all canceled, which was unfortunate, but it's good to see that they're happening again. Yes, so we can wait, everybody wants to now do in person events because it's been a while, we haven't seen each other so we want to do in person. I hope we will go to summit next year, right? I hope so too and as I was saying before we started recording, I often say this, it's the best perk about being an MVP is the annual MVP summit because no matter how much, I mean it's great to have, we've done the last couple of years online and a lot of great content. It's very difficult to do the level of relationship building, to meet new people, have those sit down, eat meals together, get in depth on things. Last week at this event in London, I saw two people who I've interacted for the last couple of years online have never met in person and so it's great to have the tools and have the meetings. I feel like I know them to some level, but it's different, it's better to meet people in person. I really, really noticed that when I went to South Africa, all the MVPs and the Microsoft staff I met in person, the relationship is different. I felt that we spent like two days in South Africa, Johannesburg for the Ignite Deter. We took some pictures together and I really, really got to see a lot of people from South Africa all over the world. We had a friendship up to now and most of them too, I invited them that if they get time to come to Ghana one day for our summit in Ghana. How meaningful those things are. There's the SharePoint Conference 2009, which was down in Las Vegas. I made friends that week that are still people that I'm talking to and working with now. It's been 12 plus years. Having those face-to-face interactions is so powerful. It's the best, really is the best. We were not lucky. The time we became MVP, we can't travel. Hopefully stuff is opening up and I hope to get out to your part of the world. In fact, I'll be over and I will be going to France before the end of the year. We've got a number of events that we're trying to pull together. I will definitely reach out to all of my MVP contacts, people that I know that I've interviewed. If I come through town, I will let you know. I would love to meet you in person. If nothing more, I will be there the entire week when we do summit. If it all possible, come and stay for a couple extra days before or after so that you can get acclimated to the time zone, spend your time and not feel like in a rush to get back out of there because it's great experience. That's true. That's so, so true. Well, I really appreciate you taking the time and your late night to dial in for this. For folks that want to get in touch with you or follow you, what are the best ways to reach you? Everywhere on social media, like LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook and everywhere, Abu Kondi. Just type my name, Abu Kondi on social media. I'm very, very creative. Anytime you reach out to me, if I'm free, I can talk to you. That's awesome. Well, that's why I always tell people, don't be afraid to reach out and contact an MVP. We all love people connecting, reaching out. If you've got questions, come to us and if we don't know the answer, we probably know somebody who does know the answer. Definitely. Definitely. It's the biggest community. It's very interesting. I'm so, so happy to be part of it. Anytime I think, hey, I'm lucky to be part of this great community. I can talk to anyone who doesn't know me. You see that, yeah, MVP just start talking to you. You can see that's the magic. Definitely. And congratulations to all the MVP who just joined and do the renew. And it's not easy. And congrats on your renewal as well. Well, it's great to connect, to get to know you and thanks for participating in the interview. Okay, thank you so much and bye-bye.


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Hi guys, how are we doing? Good to see you. My name is Andy Lowe. I'm the founder of eight app We're an early-stage seed investment fund a different approach to poverty And we're going to be talking about getting it done the four-hour due diligence process So eight app has two entities We have the capital fund which is a small early-stage seed fund with a million dollars and working with ten deals We've done ten deals in the last year, which is our first year We have a second entity which is the eight app advisory services LLC that provides intellectual capital to these early-stage Entrepreneurs, and we have an associate program that we run with that Two things about me firstly, I Love tacos. How many loves tacos? Yeah Secondly, how many you like getting stuff done? Yeah, few of you well, we're all about that I am sick and tired of the amount of time that has been wasted in early-stage deals Entrepreneurs time is being taken up going through the due diligence process for multiple investors Before investors are able to make a decision to invest in the early-stage entrepreneurs when I hear stories of investors spending 11 months to make a decision on a $25,000 investment It raises a lot of questions one of it is whether that's the most effective way to get stuff done There is bundles of money Waiting to be deployed in early-stage impact investing and there are a lot of deals waiting to receive that money But so many Investors spend so much time going through the pros and cons Dithering in being able to make a decision because their investment decision process is driven by fear rather than reality of getting stuff done And it becomes a cost-benefit analysis question when you're spending so much time of your time as an investor as well It's so much time of the entrepreneurs So I want to keep the entrepreneurs calm and I want to take up only four hours of their time for our due diligence process in my mind There's three things that I need to see before I can make an investment decision Firstly, do I trust the entrepreneur? Do I feel that we have a rapport that I can trust them and that we can get it done? Secondly, does their plan make sense and do I understand it if I can't understand the business plan Then it's not going to be a good relationship and the third one is me just being entirely honest I want it on my obituary if I don't care enough about what the entrepreneurs doing Then I'm not going to be motivated to be getting up in the morning They can be making as much money as they want they can having as much social impact as they want But if I don't care as an investor, then I'm not going to be able to get motivated to work with them And then the next step is action Now at eight app I manage other people's money So I have my first screen which we talked about the trust the plan and the obituary Then I have a second screen that takes up my time and my team's time rather than the entrepreneur's time And that is me to some extent reassuring myself of the investment decision I've made It's also making sure I fulfill my legal and my fiduciary obligations to making wise investment decisions The key thing is values. Are we aligned with the entrepreneurs on the values? Do we have a commonality of what we're trying to achieve that we can be able to work together? If we don't then it's a deal-breaker Pretty simple, huh? So I live in the one and only El Paso How many of you have had the privilege of ever being and going to El Paso? Quite a few of you represent. I like it El Paso was a very unique part of the United States of America on the border of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico And I've been living there for the last two years and every Tuesday I have the privilege of walking across the bridge and going and getting the best Mexican food you can which is in Mexico And having my taco Tuesday in Mexico It's awesome But it's an integral part of the due diligence process that we do at ADAP All of the entrepreneurs that I have invested in I have asked to come and stay at my home They have the opportunity to spend a concentrated amount of time with me Which may or may not be good for them, but I think it's helpful for the relationship They also get a chance to experience my cooking or more likely my wife's cooking and to read the bedtime story to the kids The key thing is it establishes a trust relationship and it's all part of my due diligence process after the deal is done After the deal is done when they don't need to be putting on a front they can be honest with me We can establish the trust relationship and so of the 10 deals that we've done seven of them have been to stay at my house They've been across the border with me to enjoy taco Tuesday as part of the experience They spent time working alongside us so we can build their companies together in a collaborative manner Before we do the duty before we make the deal. It's a very slow process So I deliberately reduced that down to only four hours of the entrepreneurs time after the deal is done We're ready to start moving and we're trying to get a lot done We've got to get the right balance between our head and the heart Which is why I asked them to come and stay with me so they can get to know me as a real person They can get to know me is what my investment decision has been and we can also be vulnerable with each other So many investors make a fear driven decision-making process I mentioned I want to be vulnerable with the entrepreneurs once we have already made the decision to be working together I've been told I'm insane. I've been told I'm irrational with this four-hour due diligence process That's my vulnerability, but I'm focused on getting it done And I want to challenge investors to be more vulnerable to be more honest to align your values with the entrepreneurs that you're working with Jump out of the pool or jump into the pool depending on which way you want to look at it So many investors swimming around looking at how nice it might be Looking around all that's a good deal We'll have a look we'll spend a bit of time and they're too scared to jump on in So I'm encouraging invest in the room to jump on in have fun. Enjoy the process enjoy working with the entrepreneurs It's a time for action These entrepreneurs have a very small window to make their businesses businesses a success and if my money is spent For the entrepreneurs spending more time trying to raise money from you going through your months and months of due diligence process Not really fair on me. Definitely not really fair on the entrepreneurs So let's try and think about how we can be getting action and how we can be driving towards the business building process rather than due diligence process So the last point taco Tuesday all comes back to the tacos. I Want to challenge the invest in the room you might not have the privilege of being in El Paso But I want to challenge you to think through what is your taco Tuesday? What are you doing to be able to spend time with your entrepreneurs to establish a trust relationship after you have made the investment decision and As part of your due diligence process and for the entrepreneurs in the room Have respect for yourself if an investor is messing you around taking up hours of your time have the courage to walk away There's other sources of capital that are available that will be more valuable for you So get your sunglasses on come and visit me in the sunniest city in America in El Paso If not get stuff done. Thank you all very much


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