Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…That's so cool. We promised at the beginning of the episode that we would get into the whole Altos story. I don't know if we have enough time. I think we're going to have to do another episode. It is amazing, coming out of IGSB and the Jack McDonald Investments Class, but maybe rather than that, we can't let you go without talking Twitter. I pulled some stats here, Ho. As of February, you had tweeted 1400 times ever. I don't think that's because we're late to Twitter. I think you just didn't tweet a lot. But in the last 3 months, you've tweeted 3000 times and you've 7X your following. What's going on? Was there an intentional strategic shift? Did you just wake up and go, oh, this is fun? What is going on? It's a good question. Twitter—I actually uninstalled the app from all my devices for a number of years. I did that with Facebook too and then I got back into Facebook. I think I never really quite understood Twitter. I never quite got into it, and I think I finally am understanding it better now. I'm still a novice because I got back into it recently. The reason I started lurking on Twitter more recently was purely because we had some of these IPOs coming up and I wanted to see what the sentiment was. There was some analysis that was happening. People were posting interesting analyses and thoughts on these IPOs. That's why I started to re-engage on Twitter just at least to follow. Then, as I was starting to read, I got into some conversations with folks. I thought the analysis on Twitter was way better than a lot of these reporters. Those articles could be written by a machine. The AI might have done a better job.…

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