Vlad Tenev

It's like a bunch of bros hanging out on a video chat with our earnings call.

And it's like blank screen, because it's no video.

Dry, monotonous, someone reading a script.

These live streamers were like almost apologizing for us.

Like, I know this is really dry and boring, but hopefully we'll get some good stuff.

In the Q&A.

Yeah.

But they didn't really get too much good stuff in the Q&A.

It was by the books.

And then I was like, well, you know, we have these fans.

The intent of this whole thing is to actually educate these people.

And what happens if...

we don't think of it as just this chore that we have to do, but instead it's this opportunity to like- Engage.

Engage with our community, get together with our community once a quarter and turn it into a thing that we celebrate.

So that switch flipped for me about two years after we went public.

and everything changed.

And now I'm having much more fun.

So we first started doing interviews, not just with the press, but with some of our retail financial content creator folks.

Then we started live streaming on video our earnings calls.

And my model for it was I wanted to be like an NBA post-game interview, you know, where they had like the logos in the back, the big mics.