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Hey, everybody,

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00:05

thanks so much for joining us. Marlin. Thanks for taking some time this morning.

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Thanks for having me. I

Speaker 1

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was gonna start off by asking you a little bit of personal information as I was perusing your bio earlier. You know, it's got a lot of this sort of standard like VC signposts you see from a lot of investors, but one thing really jumped out at me, it says, You are a former professional athlete, and I feel like, I might be missing some steps along the way. So they can Can you can you take me through that journey, a little bit of how you got from being a professional athlete to becoming a VC is one thing naturally lead to another? No, there

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are two separate two separate things. But, you know, I had early in my career, I had the opportunity to move to the UK to launch a seed stage enterprise software company over there and to service the UK, in Europe, and just kind of serendipitously walked into a gym to play some pickup ball basketball. And it happened to be the open gym for a semi pro team. And ultimately, the coach asked me to play on the team. So I ended up spending two and a half years, kind of moonlighting as a as a basketball player while building a company.

Speaker 1

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This may be overstated, but you know, you say there's sort of like inspirational team building lesson learning, when we talk about sports generally. Do you feel like you were able to sort of take any of those lessons that you learned being a part of a team and apply them to what you do now?

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