Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the

Astrology Podcast. Today is, what is it, Friday, Monday,

January 4th, 2021, starting at 120 PM here in Denver, Colorado, and this is the 286th episode of the show.

So in this episode I'm going to be interviewing Banu Guler, who's the founder of the co-star astrology app. So hey, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. You're obviously someone we've all looked up to for a very long time.

Yeah, I'm really excited to have you on this show. So part of the genesis of this was that last month, about a month ago, I think it was on December 1st,

you did an AMA and asked me anything on Reddit, on the astrology

subreddit where you were just answering questions from different random users and

I happened to notice it actually relatively early on that day and I asked some questions

from just generally things I was curious about that I'd heard in the community and I really liked your

responses and so I offered if you ever wanted to come on the show that we could do an interview and you accepted.

So here we are today, so thanks for doing that.

Yeah, of course.

I believe that when I realized that you were Chris Brennan, I wrote in all caps,

Oh my God, is this Chris Brennan?

Right. Yeah, I thought that was really funny and endearing.

So, yeah, so one of the things we were doing on the AMA

was to clear up some misconceptions about the app and to talk a little bit about its development as well as its future

plans and I thought those would be good discussion topics for us today so we'll get to just about everything.

So before we get there though, first I wanted to introduce this by talking about the rise of popular astrology apps over the course of the past decade in the past few years as you know mobile

phones and smartphones have become more ubiquitous it seems like it was only a matter of

time before somebody created a popular astrology app that took off, but it almost seems like it could have happened sooner than it did, and for some reason it's more recent that some apps have really exploded in popularity and co-stars seems to be one of them.

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