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Brandon Brown

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“We do this just to help founders, like everything we do. It's just to support founders and inspire innovation. It's not a complicated formula here. Thank you so much, Alex. It's great to have you back. Thank you, producer Maddie Hort and Chris and the sales team. Matt, Hannah, and Jamie. And, of course, our co-host here, Alex Wilhelm. We'll see you all next time.”
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“All right, we're going to do a city competition. We did this in the early days of the show. Basically, if you're part of Founder Fridays, go to FounderFridays.tch, which is meetups for founders. We're going to have each city do their own little competition. So you do a pitch competition between your eight to 16 members in your community. You tell us which one won your community. So San Diego will battle, Seoul will battle. Sydney will battle San Paulo will battle Saughese New York. End, and we'll make a lot of fun about it. It'll be here on the program. So your city will get some promotion and that startup will get some promotion. Go to founder Fridays.tech to start your own chapter.”
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“And want to hang out with me and Mike in New York. It's a lot of fun. We do it once a year. Join us if you want to learn from each other and us.”
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“Really? This is a great course we do. I think we'll have 200 seats. We're going to do it at a dim someplace or peaking duck place. We teach people how to angel invest. We do some live pitches and all the money goes to charity, or I should say any of the proceeds go to charity because, you know, we do a little marketing on this and we spend a little bit on the dim sum. But we have donated large amounts to charity. I'm very proud of this. And we do our workshop. We try to teach people how to invest in private companies more intelligently. We put you into a private Slack community. We give you some models and you can question us and tell us what you've learned in terms of the areas. You come to it, you meet another 200 people who are accredited investors. Angel. University to sign up. I think we charging $1,000 and it includes lunch and we'll probably have like a little after party. But a fun thing to come to if you're independently wealthy accredited investor.”
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“We need to have an over, that's what I would. If I was running the program, I would have 10 cars with 10 operators remote. In Austin, maybe in a small area, and then I would have a thousand Uber drivers and just give them the Model Y with the 4.0 package. And I think actually my feedback on FSD is now outdated because I have the hardware three package and Elon said the hardware three package is probably going to have to be replaced. And he's kind of been warming up the shareholders to that. So my prediction right now is Uber Waymo, number one, Tesla number two in the short term, then maybe tied and then maybe Tesla wins the number one spot because of their production ability.”
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“So, I think they're going to have this is a prediction. I don't have inside information. I think they're going to have a constrained route like they did for the cyber taxi launch in a constrained area, like they picked downtown area of Austin. Could very well make that work very easily. So if they pick a two mile by two mile area and they just really nail that, yeah, maybe they don't need to have the in-car safety driver. They could do that with remote drivers and just have one person watching it. Like people say Waymo has one, what do they call them? Not remote drivers. They had another word for them, operators or something. They had some.”
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“I think that's the big win. I think immediately Tesla should partner with Lyft and Uber and put Teslas with safety drivers in them for a year or two in each market with their hands off the steering wheel and prove, like Waymo did, nothing to worry about folks. And then you just can record for people, hey, look, we did a thousand rides today and we had two interventions per thousand. So it's like 500 rides before we have an intervention. And of course, they have some of these statistics from me driving my car, but I'm not a safety driver. Safety drivers are clearly the first step. Now, he did say Elon that in June there would be people in cyber taxis without drivers.”
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“Going to happen But it's going to take 10 years to get to 20% ride sharing. And that means the market grows 20x. And I think there's three or four players, just like in e-commerce or commerce generally, it's not a winner take-all market because it's the real world, folks. There's not one airline. It's not a network effect digital business. It's a network effect real world business. That's a very distinctly different XY matrix. And if we were to make a four quadrant, is it a network effect business? Yes or no? Clearly, ride sharing is a network business. Is it atoms or bits? It's Adams. And you can just look at that to understand the real world.”
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“One million cars. We're going to need like a hundred million cars. This is trillions of dollars worth of cars, folks, and batteries. So I think one of the other issues is, you know, in Travis brought this up, the founder of Uber, co-founder. You pointed out, like, there might not be enough electricity in California right now to charge all the cars to do all the rides. So we got to upgrade that and how many batteries can be produced. This is not to say it's not going to happen.”
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“Well, that's other than people are you got to really think about that. So let's take one million cars. How many rides they could do? They could do 20 rides a day, you know, 20 million rides a day. Okay, that's incredible. Okay, that's Waymo's doing right now with their 200,000 cars. Oh, no, I don't know how many cars they have, but that's what they're doing with their 200,000 rides. Long story short, if you put a million cars on the road, which Tesla's capable of doing and BYD is capable of doing Toyota is capable of doing, that's $30 billion. It's $30 billion.”
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“Elon's been pretty clear it's going to cost him $30,000, $40,000 per car. Maybe they get it down to $25. They did $1.8 million two years ago, $1.75, I think, last year. So let's give them the benefit of the doubt. They do 2 million cars. And I don't know, 10% of them go to the self-driving effort.”
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“Number of cars that will be necessary when we did the calculation is somewhere in the range of tens of millions of cars per percentage point. I'll give you an idea. You know, as big as Uber is and the ridesharing business is and to the delivery businesses, it's less than 1% of rides. Ridesharing is less than 1% of rides. It might be like 0.8, 1.2. It depends on the country, obviously, and the density. So the pie is getting bigger, the percentage is tiny. It's going to take, I think, just in the United States, millions of cars being produced every year to just get just to get that to 2%, let's say. So, what will the cars cost? I think.”
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“And at the same time, I think people will take more rides because it'll get cheaper. You'll be able to drink when you ride. You'll be able to sleep when you ride. So the idea, like flight, you know, airplane rides used to be for the rich and they were a bit dangerous in the early days. And then eventually they became safe and cheap and ubiquitous and routes were everywhere. And so just common folk, anybody could afford a $49 to $149 anytime fair on Southwestern Jet Blue. And it became more common. So imagine that. And cars used to be something only for the rich and the elite. And then you can buy a car now for a couple of grand. So we're going to see a number of rides go up and we're going to see four or five players because”
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“Here's the thing it's going to take time, everybody wants to talk to me about this because I'm the early Uber investor, which is totally fine because I bring it on. And I'm not talking my book here, but I'll tell folks once again, you know, if you just build a model and you can ask Gemini to build a model. We did that here one time with their deep research product. It's a billion rides a day in the United States, around the world. It's a much larger number of us because the United States is but 5% of the global population. It's going to take a long time to get to 10% or 20% autonomous rides. I think in the next 10 years, we could see 20% of rides be autonomous.”
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“It's 200 a week, right? So that would be $20 a week. So, you divide that by seven, it'd be $30,000 a day to 33 million. It's, yeah.”
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“Sometimes the haters are right. Sure. Or as I call them, the jaders. Shout out to my guy, Parma Like. Stray bullets everywhere.”
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“Hater comments will be you're fat, you're ugly. You could do a better job on X, Y, and Z, remind you, you're a fat bastard. And you have to be able to parse through that feedback and find the actual kernel of truth. The haters will make you greater is what I always tell folks. And then in terms of praise, yeah, I like Austin's feedback, which is, hey, just send it to the team. Team uses praise. And somebody told me, you know, the job of leadership is to repeat the same things over and over again and make people feel 12 feet tall. And so that's an actual, you know, it's impossible. Be 12 feet tall, but you want to make them feel that way”
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“Perfect. This is just great leadership. These are two people I've worked with for a long time. Presch came to work with me. He dropped out of college to work for me here at lunch. And Austin worked with me on inside. And I'm an investor in his new company. Yeah, just two great entrepreneurs out there getting it done. Negative feedback, very important. The detractors in NPS world are people who give you a six or less on the question, how likely are you to recommend this product or service to one of your friends? And what we're speaking to here is the value of detractors, haters. The haters usually have, now there are drive-by haters and there are drive-by people praising you. And that's what they're sort of getting to here. I think the lesson at the end of the day is you have to not get too high on your own supply, as Brandon just said in our previous segment, you know, and not over-index on the lows. But inside of”
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“So, this is probably year three or four. And you can see I got 10 more pounds of fat on. And yeah, we did that in Santa Monica. And this is the early days of podcasting. That was probably in 20, I don't know, 14, 15 or something. Who knows? But that's Tyler Crowley, who was kind of my chief of staff, but was the original engineer, producer of the show, Lon Harris, who's now our editorial director here. He was the original newsreader and worked with me at Mahalo. And so that was the old school crew. Back in the early days of podcasting, I wanted to do a foundry lesson today. I think we can get one in. And then any other lightning you want to try to get to here as we wrap up the week.”
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“That's Tyler Crowley. Tyler Crowley was co hosting, and Lawn Harris was the newsreader, and that was the trio in the early days. That's in our Do we know what episode this was?”
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“It. I appreciate you. Talk to you soon. Just a great founder. You know, there's some people when you meet him, Alex. I tell people there's like a neon sign above their head. I see it. It just flashes winner. Winner. And so when I meet people, I'm always astounded when I see that neon sign. And with Brandon, I saw it. It was great. The clip from the, I think episode Twist 219. You're kidding me. This is now when I know we're doing great on our production ability. Yeah, this is good stuff”
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“You don't get there by accident, and I can tell you, because 99% of startups that are funded do not get past 10 million. And the one that does, like you did with Grant and other people have done, it really does take a tremendous amount of discipline effort, a little bit of luck on the margins, but generally I think building a great team, being obsessed with your customers, and then refining that product incessantly is a pretty good playbook. Team product customer Brandon, great job.”
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“You do have to have reps. You do have to see it yourself to really understand it. But it's also good to have mentors who can tell you because you will learn the lesson fasters. And you can learn these lessons faster, more efficiently and be aware of them and take them in if you do a little bit of research. Brandon, great job bringing the company. Thank you for your efforts and look forward to being the first check in your next company. You promised me and you'll promise me here again on the air that I am your first call when you have your next idea and I get to put the first check in. You agree? That's that arm a little more”
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“I mean, I agree with that. In order to really take the lessons in, you have to experience it. That's part of Alex, like playing cards. Like we talked about, if you see your pocket aces lose, you know, or you see your set lose to a bigger set or a set lose to quads or a set lose to a, you know, I don't know, a runner runner, flush or straight, this isn't park analogies here because you can feel invincible at one point in time and then, you know, you get wiped out. But statistically, when somebody like Nate on 538 said Nate Silver said, oh, listen, this person has a one in three chance of winning the election. People thought, well, that's not possible for them to win the election. And then the poker players were like, okay, so it's like, you know, you have, you know, an overpair and somebody has a lower pair, like, or you have a flush draw. And it was just obvious to people.”
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“And the covenants part of this, as far as I understand, venture debt terms is that you can borrow money when you raise money. Silicon Valley Bank would loan you another five if you raise $30. And as long as your ARR was growing at some percentage, they wouldn't take the money back, demand the money back immediately. Is that a fair explanation of covenants?”
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“And here's the truth. It did take out two or three of your contemporaries from that time period. And man, I was just like, why don't these people listen like Brandon did? And you had a little bit of intraday, but you didn't go spend it on an office or some cockamy third product before the first one actually had product market fit. It's a great thing to do, to say, you know what, somebody else has more energy. I put 10 years into this. I mentored them. I'll move up to the chairman position. Reid Hoffman did it. Many other folks have done it. And what you'll see is the company will do better and you'll come back even stronger. I want to ask what the venture debt thinks. A lot of founders are watching this. Brandon, you said that VentureDebt will take you out. Can you just explain to people why it's so risky for the founders out there?”
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“23. You're in college, right? So I had actually experienced those as an adult in the workforce. And so when you did things like, oh, we have a little bit of venture debt and, oh, people really want to push us to take more venture debt, to spend the venture debt. I just said, you know, I remember pulling you aside at one point. I was like, things don't grow to the moon. Sometimes things can get bad. Like, we should not be using this for runway. We had like a really thoughtful discussion of it. I could tell you some. Founders who I was working with, Alex at the time, Brandon, they were just like, whatever JCal, old guy. I'm maxing out the venture debt and I'm spending the venture debt.”
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“Couple of years experience on you, and maybe one. I basically saw probably one extra cycle than you did from the dot-com era in the Great Recession. How old were you in 1999, 2000?”
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“Product line, okay, what's going to go first? Well, there's a retreat to what you know and what's the most effective. The experimental stuff you're figuring out. You're figuring out, do I give Kim Kardashian a million dollars or do I give 20 influencers 50 or do I give 200 influencers five? Or do I give 1,000 influencers 1,000 or 10,000, 100 to market my watch, my glasses, my sneakers? All that was being figured out. And of course, in a down market, that gets constricted. We saw that in the venture space. The number of venture firms went down a third. I had to look at reality and say, okay, is every venture fund going to be easy to raise and double the last one or quadruple the last one? This is what great leaders do. And I think you did a great job, Brandon. You were always very sober about things even when things got overheated. And, you know, I hope as a board member, you know, me having a”
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“Brandon was, you know, in our conversations, in your conversations with the team, is you accepted the reality. And the reality was you're not going to beat that valuation that we got. And the valuation was incredibly rich when we became a billion dollar company. And that the only thing we could do was not say, hey, there's another round coming. That's going to one up that. We can look at the amount of cash in the bank. Wow, that's a lot of money. We can look at the revenue. Okay. There are people who are customers who are cutting back. They're cutting back the number of seats they spend on Salesforce because their sales team went from 50 salespeople to 25. And so the whole industry was watching this SaaS contraction. And then, of course, if you're looking at marketing, and this is an experimental new”
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“On your life, so you know, if seven of his years were those dog years, that's 50 years at the helm. Or for any other employee, right? For the CEO, the founder, whoever's in that pilot seat, you're putting on that much mileage. And then you look at during a down market or headwinds like we saw with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the correction and peak zerp going to peak. It's the end of the world. That was a great swing. And I have to say Some founders are able to assess reality. And there was this guy, Warren Bennis, who was on the program that a friend of mine had put me in touch with many years ago. And he said to me, you know, I said, what's the nature of leadership? And he said, defining reality. And I think he had been in World War II or Korean War or something. He'd been of service. And other people had said this. And what you did really well were”
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“Actually, that comes from Bill Lee, our friend, West Coast Bill on Twitter, a good mutual friend of ours. You know, just from a board perspective since Brandon's being so honest here, I would say every startup year is like dog years, puts seven years on your”
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“Just walk us through that, I guess. We have some examples of influencers and then maybe just for background we'll talk about how the product works, then we'll talk about you transitioning out of the CEO slot, which is a bit controversial moment in any company, an intense moment. And we'll get all those great founder stories after we just sort of queue up what the product is and why it's important.”
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“For folks who don't know, Grin is a really special company. Went to our accelerator. I'm on the board. We invested in, I think we invest in the company three or four times, which is not normal. Usually we will do an accelerator investment, then maybe a seed investment, and then we're kind of done because there are Series A investors, B investors who are better at that. But we've been lucky enough to invest along the way. The company has done spectacular. gotten to A figures in revenue. They do a great job managing social media campaigns at scale. And the big question when I met Brandon was, is social media going to become a channel. Now, let's talk about that. You had this thesis that social media would become a marketing channel and an important one. How many years ago?”
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“I do understand it's not everybody's cup of tea. And you might not understand how powerful it is to shut off every credit card and then watch all the SAS subscriptions turn off and how good that is when you have fraud, waste, and corruption. Okay. But this is great. This is great. And Doge needs to do more of this. Tell more stories like this. And I think Doge is getting the message. I kind of know they're getting the message. We'll leave it at that. You did see them say they're going to give raises and promotions to people who are doing a great job in addition to the layoffs they're doing. Every company does a stand up. Anyway, we got a guest. So let's welcome our guests to the broker.”
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“Everybody knows I'm a Never Trumper who is rooting always for the president to succeed. I've been very clear about my positions on all this. I was a double hater this election. Not that I'm the main character here, but I mean, on the show, I guess I am because it's my show. But I'm not the main character. But just to put it all in perspective, I understand how people can be absolutely like shocked by how aggressive Doge is being. I happen to agree with it because I got to see it during the Twitter reorg and I happened to believe in it.”
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“Yeah, and more of this. So to the Doge team, again, I'm just going to call balls and strikes. Everybody knows some of these people are my friends and yada yada and associates.”
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“I mean, it's not like a full on bromance, I'll be honest. I would like it to be. I think it's a cool dude. I would like to maybe have extended to a bromance, but it's not on bromance level yet.”
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“He came on the pot, and I met him in circles. He lives here in the same town as me in Austin. And yeah, we've seen a basketball game together. So we're friendly. Yeah. We're friends. I would consider us friends. Yes.”
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“Then he loses the midterms, right? If people feel like you do too many of this, then he loses the midterms, then gridlock, then lawsuits, and we're back to the Trump 1.0 presidency.”
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“And then the lawsuits like last time will build up, then it's going to become such a distraction that I think he's going to just get.”
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“January 6 pardons for the people who were violent fell wrong. I don't know about the other ones, maybe in some of those cases those were overzealous prosecutions. But we know that violent criminals should not get away with it. So that's, for me, what I believe is that you get so many of these things and Trump's using them up pretty fast here.”
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“From Airbnb is working on this very interesting thing to help people retire within two days instead of taking eight months and make it paperless. That's the kind of stuff that we need to hear more about is the Joe Jebbia stuff. And so please, let's try to minimize the number of these things that feel conflicted, corrupt, wrong. Let's just use the word wrong. This feels wrong.”
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“So, I think you do need to consider that when you're representing all Americans, while many people want to see crypto be legalized and have that great, I'm in that group, you're in that group. I think most people are in that group regulate this, figure it out, create clear guidelines. Gary Gensler didn't do that. But then I think if you're Trump, I think what Trump needs to think about in his administration needs to think about is you get so many of these kind of inside deals, questionable moves January 6th, the violent folks, Republicans didn't like it, 80% of the country didn't like it. I think this is going to be up there where like 80% of the country is not going to like this. You can only queue up so many of those before you lose credibility as an administration. And maybe the good stuff you're doing, like I believe the Doge stuff is good. I don't know if you saw Joe Jebby.”
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“We're gonna call Boston Strike Theoretic. This is a cover up to make a carve out around that coin. Okay, so here we are. I wonder if this is going to get challenged. I don't know how, when the SAC puts a notice like this out, can people sue? Our attorney general is going to sue on behalf of people who lost for Hakua coin?”
2025-03-01 · This Week in Startups · Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, how is that a bad thing? So, why are we focusing on this, carving this stuff out when we could be focused on a sophisticated investor test? So I think the SEC is doing this to cover up for what happened with the Trump coin. That's obvious to everybody. Come on.”
2025-03-01 · This Week in Startups · Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A bunch of other meme coins come out. There's going to be, I mean, this means if this is the law now, you can list every single meme coin on Robinhood and Coinbase. I mean, that's the law now. And so just a lot of people are going to get hurt. I'll go back to what I've always said, have an accreditation test You're accredited and people explain, hey, meme coins are a new device, NFTs are a new device, utility tokens are a new device, Bitcoin is this distributed network, it's decentralized. And like literally people have to take a test to show they understand what decentralized versus centralized is. They have to take a test so they understand the how test.”
2025-03-01 · This Week in Startups · Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If it trades on a platform like Coinbase, Then there should be an incorporation. It should be a security. And those non things should maybe trade on a different platform or there should be a massive disclaimer when you try to trade them. I traded. I bought $1,000 in Trump coins. I lost, I think, half my money. And I did it just to make a point so I could bring it up that I lost half my money on it as a joke with my friends and tweet it. But here's the thing. Those coins I believe will go to zero. Full stop. I think Trump coin will be worth zero. I think when you buy them on a platform like that, it should say this is not a security. This is a collectible. Do you agree you're not buying a security even though it has a ticker symbol? Whatever. Because there is some freedom of speech here. But this is a bad precedent, I think, to set. I don't think it's a good use. I think the SEC should really maybe examine what they're doing here because now we're going to have”
2025-03-01 · This Week in Startups · Board Talk Empire with GRIN's Brandon Brown, Founder Hacks & SEC Memecoin Clarity? | E2091 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source