Transcript: Uh, looking over some of my notes from my conversation with Shahrouz today, um, man, I'm really, really grateful that we had that conversation. Um, it just made me think a bit differently and, uh, feel, felt really supported, so I, I really appreciate, um, Shahrouz for that and encouraging and kind of being like, you're, you're smart and you know what you're doing. Um, it felt really good. Um, some of the things that, um, might be worthwhile doing is like to try and maybe go up to SF and try to engage in the community and just meet people. Um, maybe trying to find a co-founder, maybe, maybe not. Um, and he also mentioned, well, uh, he mentioned a lot of things that were really helpful. Um, one was to look at Nicholas Feltron's work and what he did for, that's kind of like, uh, what the dashboard view should be in some way, I think, um, for me. Um, so I'll look at that more and one of the other big things was branding and identity and that being probably quite critical and I agree, I really, really agree and maybe it makes me think of like, what do I want that brand identity to be as well? Um, you know, I don't have to develop that myself. Um, but having some intuition of what that looks like, I think would be, uh, would be nice. Certainly I'd like it to feel, you know, it's like hand-built, it's not like machine-made. This is hand-built and you're going to build it by hand and it's not going to be perfect. Um, there's going to be some creaky edges and things falling off and things off level, but it'll look really good at the end of the day. That's, that's kind of what I'm feeling there. Um, just quickly looking over. Yeah, I mean, I think for the, for the most part, like just encouraging to try to build an app or build the right loops and potentially raise based on that and, um, yeah, really, really, really helpful. All of this stuff.
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