This is the Startup Junkies Podcast.

All right, Zach, what made you want to get involved in an accelerator like Fuel? So, interestingly enough, I had never started a startup before, and I knew I wanted to.

And I wanted my lab and my studio ideas to eventually follow that path, but I'd never made one before.

So when I was approached with just, hey, can you provide your subject matter expertise in this space? I saw it as kind of a two-way street, right? Not only was I able to come in and provide some knowledge and augmentation of capability for a company that really needs it at a certain space through the channel of fuel, but I was also able to get an orbit of companies who are further down the track than my own company was.

and learn the ins and outs, learn the language, right? There's a vocabulary to startups that I did not have two years ago.

It's a whole nother language.

It's a whole nother language at a time that large language models turn knowledge in context into function.

It was almost like you were a part of the cohort as well,