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Shaan Puri: All right, I’m recording this. I just finished my conversation with Michael Birch. For those of you who don’t know, Michael is a internet entrepreneur. He built a social network back in the day; he competed head to head against Facebook. And Although Facebook won the war, Michael didn’t end up too bad. That company, Bebo, if you’ve ever heard that before, sold for $850,000,000 to AOL. And when I met Michael, we got back together and we bought it back for $1,000,000 years later, and then we actually sold that again just now to Amazon.

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It’s a little strange that I’m here purporting to be a kind of business expert because I’m still a complete freshman in the business world. I think half the people in the audience probably could teach me more than I could teach them about how to function in that world. I definitely have as much to learn as anyone here. Ten years ago, the last thing that I would imagine myself doing was founding a business…because I had essentially no interest in business. My only interest in food was, you know, just eating it. When I wasn’t eating it, I was just not that interested in it.

Shaan Puri: Jack, man I appreciate you coming on the show. I’ve been excited to have you on because every time I meet you, you are up to some new companies, some new experiment, some new kind of clever thing. I would call you sort of, you’re the most clever guy I know in Silicon Valley.

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Shaan Puri: Okay, so what is this? So something that entertains me. And so I wanted to create a podcast which was first and foremost, just an excuse to hang out with people who I haven’t been able to hang out with as much. So, now one way is to say, “Hey, let’s go grab a coffee.” And the other way is to say, “What if we recorded this so that other people could be a fly on the wall and hear stories or chatter about random stuff.” And I’m not trying to do it educationally. So for me it’s stories.