The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Yeah. Cause you're, you're, you're, I was going to say, you're right. Did you do hire a ghostwriter? You wrote it all yourself.

A No, I wrote all myself. Every word for, you know, soup to nuts. Took me a year all my time. Let me tell you how to write a book. You get a book contract, right? And then you call all your friends, you tell them about the book you're going to write and how great it's going to be, and you write like two words. You feel very proud of yourself. Uh, call your agent, tell, ask for distribution, how many people are going to buy it. Uh, and then your publisher calls you and says, can I see something? You go, I'm getting there. And they've heard that a million times. And then, uh, you realize you haven't written much and the book is due in six months. You write a chapter. It's not that good. And you start drinking. A lot. And then your family starts to realize you're not spending time with them, and you're drinking a lot, and you're not working out, and people start leaving you, and then you find you're alone, you can't pay your mortgage, you gotta find someone to live. You move out to the desert. Into a trailer, and you have a three-legged dog that comes by to eat some SpaghettiOs, and then with nobody to bother you, nothing to do, and only a three-legged dog to talk to you go, there's nothing else to do but drink whiskey and write a book. That's how you write a book.

AI assessment note: “No, I wrote all myself. Every word for, you know, soup to nuts.”

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Q a second. So let me pick your brain first on capital markets today. So first off, debt is like all over the place today, especially for B to B SaaS companies. You have folks like lighter capital, SaaS capital, 1.5 X repayment caps over three to five years. If you're working with a software company today and they're looking at raising capital, where do you think the cheapest money is?

A Yeah. I mean, you have to be careful just throwing around lighter capital. I mean, we're working on a deal with them right now. You know, if I just go to my email and click on this, you know, Hey, feedback on lighter capital. Uh, here we go. Lighter call from this morning. Whoa. What's going on here? Uh, lighter capital feedback from this morning. Here we go. Uh, threshold no more than 40% of revenue concentrating one client. Uh, we have 50% of revenue in the moment. Top three clients will be no more than 60% of revenue, and so we'd fail that test as well. So there's lots of, uh, cap, so the capital markets, I don't think for small companies, there isn't a market.

AI assessment note: “you have to be careful just throwing around lighter capital.”

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