Kyle York

The entire thesis of my investment firm is take less capital.

I mean,

The best part of the Dyn story is that we didn't raise a dollar of outside capital till we were 30 million ARR.

I'm in the fortunate position to self-fund York IE and self-fund our fuel platform.

So I can actually control our destiny, control our fate, control our cap table and not be beholden

to investors' definition of success or failure.

So I think it's those two things.

I mean, it's building a lot of the IP ourselves.

I think it's launching our services and investments practice on top of the platform ourselves so that we can hone the product, the capabilities, the automated levers of the platform.

And then over time, decide what parts of it

to offer to the market.

I think what you'll see with us is we're building our smart notebooks is really more around automated workflows and doing a lot of education and training on how to do market research, how to do better amplification, how to curate better content.

And I think those types of things that we build in as more workflows will also help us not just be a company, a tool that you think of the user, of the operator, and that's not always the case.

Sorry, it's breaking up a little bit.

I don't know if it's, is that on your side too, or is it just mine?

Exactly right.

Yeah, so we don't run a traditional venture fund.

We operate an evergreen syndicate.

So back in 2014, I co-founded the SaaS syndicate on AngelList, which remains the largest SaaS-specific syndicate on the platform.

I co-founded that with Gil Penchina, who's a good friend of mine from the industry.