Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We've got an amazing show for you today. Molly Wood is with me. Again, my co-host, you could follow her on Twitter at Molly Wood. She's gained like 20,000 followers. She started here, which is awesome. I know I think boss. Yeah, that's pretty good. Just call me partner.

Don't call me boss.

You've been doing this as long as I have. I always like, I don't like it. I don't like it. Yeah. So anyway, we're going to talk about Microsoft absolutely crushing their earnings. They're printing money.

Satya is doing an amazing job. He's like the low profile. Just absolute assassin and tech right now absolutely crushing it. And then.

And then we follow up on the Stripe Mafia thread yesterday from the Bolt CEO. There was a bit of a pile on by the VCs. Jason, of course, jumped into that pile because the man cannot resist.

And we I'm not going to lie. We indulge in just like reading a couple of fun tweets because it was.

It was a meme, it was meme testing. Hi, amusement factor. Hi, Ben Molly and I get in a little bit of a debate.

We have different opinions about Joe Rogan's podcast on Spotify, but we may have found some consensus of how to deal with COVID conversations.

Neil Young has to have his music removed from Spotify because he's so offended by Joe Rogan's anti-vax slash misinformation accusations, I guess.

And then we go deep into podcasting right. We go deep into podcasting our history with podcasts. And then of course a startup of the week and a request for an all news startup who among you can fix Amazon.

And RFS requests for startup stick with us. It's going to be an amazing episode.

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All right, Molly, what's in the news today? Lots of news.

In the news today, we're actually going to start with some earnings. It's going to be earnings week and I suspect there will be some interesting stories.

But we just could not walk on by the fact that Microsoft may have in the words of Jim Kramer had its best quarter ever in its history.

Do you have supply chain woes other companies Microsoft does not do you have customer issues or problems with hiring companies Microsoft does not.

At all Microsoft is on pay it's revenue was up 20% year over year the score to 21% on a very big number zero like who thought Microsoft was a hyper growth company.

Just saying on pace for almost 200 billion dollars of revenue in fiscal year 2022 which would also be a 20% increase over 2021.

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