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Alberto, do you want to add any more to your background as to what led you to ultimately

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ending up with RSS?

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Yeah, just if we start from the podcast generator, I was back in my homeland in Italy where I

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lived until I was 28, right?

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From 0 to 28.

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And then I moved to Spain because I wanted to do a PhD.

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So podcast generator has been always on the side, you know, and in the meanwhile I did

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a PhD in affective computing, which today is called emotion AI.

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I was working with wearable to measure psychophysiological signals from humans, which means heart rate,

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electrodermal activity, so skin conductance, pupil size, to infer emotions.

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That was very interesting, kind of pioneering the field of wearable before Fitbit, before

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Apple Watch were commercially launched.

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Very exciting.

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Gave me a lot of insights on how to be data driven, right?

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This is something I still use today.

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I still am a very data driven person.

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And after that, I wanted more commercial impact.

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So I switched.

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I left academia after my PhD and I joined a startup where I was CTO for three years.

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We raised 45 million dollars, especially in the United States.

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Then I switched to corporate in a business unit, which was a moonshot factory.

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It was the equivalent of Google X, but in Europe.

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And it's a big corp, a big telecommunication company, 56 billion dollar revenue as a CTO

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there.

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I also for three years, I spun out a moonshot into a company.

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It's a real company, which raised 30 million euros, 36 million dollars.

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And after the spin out, I finally decided to leave everything, leave corporate and just

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join RSS, which was already alive and going for a couple of years.

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For myself, it was a side project, right?

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Some weekends maybe dedicated, some emails, but really I was not in the day to day ops.

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And that's when I decided to join, which is actually this year.

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So 2021 is a big year for me.

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Finally being able to work and have an impact in the podcasting industry.

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What I love so much about how diverse your backgrounds are is that you both had so many

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like Marie Forleo says, you know, you're multi-passionate entrepreneurs and you took all of these amazing

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skills and all these amazing like knowledge bases and you created something that is giving

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a voice to the previously voiceless.

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And that's honestly why I love RSS so much.

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Just the fact that you can come on, you can speak into a microphone and you're telling

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the world your story.

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And sure, you may not have like a bunch of followers all at once.

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You may not have a bunch of fans, but the point is you're taking something as simple

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as a microphone and a broadcasting platform online and you're giving your voice to the

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world.

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That's I love, I love that.

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And it's all nothing.

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So we certainly love our community.

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I love that connectivity with our physical remarks.

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We love talking to students and cooling down on some dark stuff as a resource.