Vlad Tenev

You know, NBA post-game interviews are fun.

If your team loses,

It's kind of entertaining because the players go out and they're kind of in a bad mood and maybe they'll talk shit about the other players or the coaches.

And if they're winning, they come in and they've got the swagger.

Like Anthony Edwards has his shirt off and has the towel over his shoulder and he's just like, I'm king, you know?

And then we took questions not just from... So the conventional wisdom is...

you only invite sell side analysts.

And these are the people that aren't actually making the decisions, but the big banks employ analysts to analyze companies.

They write these reports and then the buy side consumes these reports and they figure out.

But it sounds really dry.

yeah, it's kind of like people pay for this and there's an established industry.

And I was like, well, why is it only sell side analysts?

Is there a rule?

Is there some kind of law that makes it so that we can't make it bigger?

And

everyone's scratching their heads saying, well, that's how it's always been done.

There would be these made-up rules like, oh, the sell-side analysts want to make sure that they have time, that they're adequately respected, that they get to ask their questions.

But then we started inviting the retail folks in, the retail content creators.

They started asking questions.

Then the sell-side analysts came up to us and they're like, it'd be fun to have some buy-side folks in here too.