 Hey everyone Thank you so much for being here today I'm Aziza and I run General Assembly in Singapore We're a global tech education company that focuses on bridging the gap between Traditional education and what the modern economy needs We were founded in New York in 2011 and we're now in about 20 cities in four continents I'm super excited about the speaker that we've got for tonight But just before we go to him, I want to say a huge thank you to our partners Tech in Asia and NTUC for the space and now Nicole the assistant director for NTUC is just going to say a few words Hi everyone Okay, I know I'm standing in between you and Alexis. I'll do this real fast I just want to take this opportunity to welcome all to NTUC and at the same time introduce ourselves to you So I'm from the youth startup team So if there's any startup here looking to tap on the labour movement network, just come to us Let us know we can have a chat or if I any PME is interested in any tech related staff Progression events also can talk to us. We have tied up with a lot of partners to bring meaningful causes for you as well All right. So before we start shall we just now bring along Aziza and Alexis back on stage to start this fireside chat. Yeah Okay, cool. I don't think our speaker needs any introduction because all of you know him He is the co-founder of reddit and initialized capital and it's also known as the mayor of internet Let's welcome Alexis back to Singapore everyone. The last time he was here was 2003 Thank you. Hello What's up Singapore? Hey doing You doing well? Yes, very happy to be back There is there's an interesting connection between Singapore and My career and reddit not a lot of folks may know This was like 2003 summer of my junior year of college the University of Virginia one of my professors got named professor Mark white asked me If I wanted to go to Singapore for two weeks all expenses paid to compete With some other UVA students on behalf of the University of Virginia at a techno Prenorship conference hosted by the National University of Singapore Now this time I had been I've been working All-spring to get an internship With a PR firm called Ogilvy in New York and I got that internship and I was so hyped I was gonna spend the whole summer in New York. I was really looking forward to this and Then my professor offered me two weeks With a per diem in fact of a paid trip to Singapore I said, you know what screw this internship I'm going to sing but I've never been to Singapore before is actually my first. Yeah, it was my first second trip to Asia But I thought all right, you know, why not it's gonna be fun. Have a good time So I show up here. We got assigned different teams My team actually was a bunch of NUS students that kind of actually split me off from the UVA kids Which is kind of cool and they handed us a patent And we were supposed to innovate on it and like a week later do a presentation Now it turned out the patent they gave us was actually invalid or outdated or some combination of both Basically rendering our assignment Worthless so they just we realized we weren't gonna succeed at this little project. I didn't have a grade riding on it Which was cool. I don't these are these NUS students probably did But they just decided look this is This is a dead-end assignment. We're not gonna have any success here Let's just spend the whole week touring around Singapore. So I had this amazing time. It took me everywhere I eat everything night markets. It was great. I still don't understand why at like two in the morning You just got entire families coming out enjoying amazing food And then somehow everyone's still getting up in the morning the next day bright and early to go to work it is one of the many amazing miracles that is Singapore life and It was actually on my second night there that I was out with this professor We're having a few drinks and and I pitched him on this idea. Now. It wasn't reddit This was a precursor to reddit. It was called my mobile menu or mm And and it was gonna let people skip lines again. This is like 2003 you never have to wait in line again Because when you're a few blocks from the Starbucks, you just take out your phone There's no iPhone back then this is 2003 right before for that one So you'd like text the the Frappuccino order and then walk into the Starbucks You're like hey, I'm Alexis and give you your thing and you walk out wait I was gonna change the world and he was the first person that I pitched outside of my family and And he actually said that wasn't a terrible idea is actually like, you know what I hear this stuff a lot from students I actually think you've got a shot you and your your buddy Steve really should do a bit and I don't know if I don't know if the alcohol got into him. Maybe the jet lag but it really Meant something to me and for the rest of that week I was sitting in an auditorium like this hearing from these speakers at this techno pre-norship forum in At in the US and I kept coming back to it kept in the margins of my notes I kept drafting ideas and things and motivating myself and thinking hey, you know what actually we can do this And I wrote this now infamous email You can Google it. I just I recently posted it actually on my reddit profile I wrote this email to Steve and I say infamous because I use the word bro like six times, which I never do I swear I never do in real life, but it was this email that basically said look we can do this and it was It was the it was the email that kicked off our work on mmm which a year later we would be pitching to Y Combinator the first-ever class of Y Combinator and And they actually really loved the idea or that's what we thought and then they rejected us which sucked and And when we were heading back to university rejected Paul had Founder Paul Graham had had given us a call and I got excited again. I was like we what he's calling us back And I pick up the phone and I was like hello Paul Imagine this And he said you know what we still don't like your idea It's like you really you called just to say that Who does that? And he's like no no no I mean we don't like your idea, but we like you to and if you to just forget this whole thing It's too early for mobile. You don't work with restaurants If you work on something in a browser Not a phone that solves your problem every morning We'll fund you no questions asked here. It was a $12,000 check back then and We immediately hung up the phone Talked about it for half a second called him back We waited a few minutes. I didn't sound too desperate And said yeah, we're in we got off for the next train stop went back to Boston took Paul's money and basically started working on reddit and Yeah, now 12 years later 12 years later reddit is the fourth fourth most traffic site in the US and eight ninth in the world according to Alexa a little asterisk there But it's far exceeded our humble expectations from 12 years ago And it all really started because I was sitting in an auditorium at the National University of Singapore And had a bunch of people telling me that I could start a company So it's also kind of fitting that we were initialized capital my seed stage venture fund We're actually among the first seed investors in General Assembly. So back in 2011 Was meeting with those founders in New York We handed them a check and it's been amazing to watch General Assembly grow worldwide because obviously entrepreneurship is not just limited to a zip code in Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship is everywhere and it's pretty awesome to think that I'm here back in Singapore over a decade later Speaking to an organization that because of this trip to Singapore I was able to invest in and that has now proliferated to spread these ideas and and it's really cool and And I'm grateful that all of you came out And I I want to make sure above all that if I don't answer questions in the time that we have here today That you guys feel free to reach out to me On reddit Twitter you can find me just Google away, but if you actually want to apply We we tend to not do investing outside of US Or at least North America region stuff because we don't we want to invest in things We know and unfortunately we don't have the bandwidth to try to really understand markets that are outside of North America But that said you guys can go to a special apply dot initialize dot com slash GA Singapore and use the code GA Singapore if you want to apply and pitch us your idea to talk about funding So I want to get into the meat of it So let's let's start the Q&A Bring up a round of applause Thank you so much Alexis super excited to have you here So I'm gonna start off with a few questions first and then we're gonna be doing a rapid-fire round with you All right, okay, so let's start first So, you know, there are a lot of forums out there, but there's nothing as massively popular as reddit Tell us why you think that is I don't know I We we managed to get a few things right early on that mattered Steven and I we sold the company in 2006 and we left in 2009 And then we only came back about two years ago full-time So there was a hiatus where nothing really changed on reddit product-wise But it just kept growing and that to me was a really strong indication that we got a few key things, right? The biggest of which was we deliberately built a platform for Hopefully back then but now in fact hundreds of thousands or lots of communities There whatever your hobby whatever your passion there is a community on reddit for and if there isn't you can make one it takes like two seconds and The openness of that platform is what I think ultimately helped us beat former competitors like dig and And then when it comes to just forms in general like it's you know, this is in a lot of ways Remix of traditional web forms which are as old as the internet But we did a we did an exceptional job around the commenting system and and that's credit to Steve The the sorting algorithms and the voting seem pretty simple and they're all open source You can take a look at the reddit comment sorting algorithm. It's all there But it's telling because we're at a time when most sites certainly in the US and I assume Worldwide are curbing comments every news website in the US is shutting off their comments because they're so bad And you don't have to look too far on social media to find a bunch of really anti social commenters on every single platform And I think it's just in part because the commenting system doesn't support hundreds of thousands of people having You've remotely interesting conversation and it's it seems simple right a hotness algorithms some upvotes and downvotes But I think that's what made a lot of difference So speaking of community and you know the culture around the community when you and Steve first started reddit How do you get your first wave of community and did you try to build a culture around it? Well, you're like, hey, this is how I want these people to be It was so in 05 there was no social media to speak of Facebook was there, but it was still colleges this is before Twitter Instagram obviously Snapchat obviously and and for our earliest users this is This is not gonna sound right, but we basically faked our first users by submitting Under different user names that we didn't have comments like how many of those did you do? For the first few weeks of reddit, I'd say 99% of submissions were either me or Steve under Under different user names and we didn't have comments back then so it's not like I would post something as Myself and then chime in and be like great great post Alexis It wasn't it wasn't that bad yourself a thumbs up. Yeah, maybe I'd give myself an upvote, but I wouldn't I it wasn't That bad, but it was important because this was a novel thing We wanted new users who came upon it to realize it wasn't just an ugly blog by two people And 05 if you had stumbled on it, maybe that's what you would have thought But we wanted them to know that this was a place for community where you could have countless people participating and And we we were good. We tried to be good party hosts with the first community We you know back then there was it was just a general sort of potpourri of content politics science geeky stuff sports It was just everything and it wasn't until we rolled out user-created communities or subreddits a few years later That we really saw the proliferation because we now had enough users to support all these different communities but community building still actually is mostly art and it's becoming more of a science and we're just starting to understand the data behind what makes Community successful on right we've over I mean over a hundred thousand exist on the platform now and We're really trying to unlock What is the tipping point for it to to become self-sufficient? I don't think there are many mods today who post under different user names to make it look like there are more users because there's Do you have more than one user name on reddit? I think most people do So what's your other user name other than your most popular? Why would I tell you that? Why would I know that's this on how it works? This is not gonna be some kind of expose. Hey, I will not let you know actually okay. It's spaz. That's my that's my fake account Awesome. Thank you for sharing that just with Singapore. I won't go outside of this auditorium So yeah, so you know you guys are massive now. What are your favorite stories of impact? I love the story of mr. Splashy pants. What are some of your favorite stories? Splashy's great Well, you know there for every for every major headline for every major Miracle really like place. I don't know how many all participated in place the April Fool's Day experiment one of you awesome Thank you, two of you. I'll take it This was it was over a million one point four million people participated Lizzie is that right? Yeah, 1.4 million people participated in the world's largest crowd-sourced art project Only on reddit could this happen and we gave them a blank canvas a thousand pixels by a thousand pixels and said you may Paint a single pixel whatever color you like once every hour Once every hour now. What would you think would happen right chaos? Nothing good could come of that right Well, in fact A few days later what came out of it was an amazing amazing crowd-sourced work of art and check out the blog posts Recapping it Josh Wardle who's the the product manager behind it and just a beautiful mind He has for like three years now come up with our April Fool's Day stunts and and what you saw there was this manifestation of of Internet of people who were doing everything from like trying to recreate their country's flag and then maintain it as other people tried To sneered over there's this whole Germany France thing which You know 20th century history can be a little dicey But it was amazing because that the German flag was smearing over the French flag. I know I know but then But then the French flag pushed back and then they decided to form an EU flag over the Union of the two It was beautiful. No really and it's gorgeous and there was no guidelines. There was no court. There was no instructions It was just it was genuinely organic as these communities came around making art collaboratively and So there's stuff like that that happens and that's amazing But then on the small scale there are things that happen every day across all those communities that I don't even know about I don't even hear about because they're just sort of simple acts of of kindness of wonder of just things that that Can actually happen now that we have a platform at this scale that breaks down so many of those borders and And we obviously still have a lot more work to do Right now reddit is not even really internationalized All the almost all the content is still English. We haven't even tried to internationalize yet We have a lot more work to do but I'm excited to see what happens as we look forward to that coming around And one of the things I did before a talk was that I asked the audience to fill out a little Google form with questions for you and one of the questions is from Putra who's a product manager at potato productions and he asked okay So how did the condonast deal come about and why did you decide on that company? Like what were the synergies and how was lifelike after the acquisition working with them? I see okay, so Conn and asked At the time I didn't know who they were I got an email from their head of biz dev and I had to Google what Conn and asked it Then I found out their publishers of like wired and GQ And and these these magazines and they own newspapers and they had some websites too, but It happened actually because like three months earlier. I had had a cannoli with reporter Who ended up telling her boss? I feel like there's a godfather quote coming here. It's I there is as far as I know There is no godfather quote, but it was this was also a I mean an Italian-American story I guess we had this we had this cannoli and She ended up telling her boss about this company called reddit that was really interesting and her boss Ended up telling her husband about this company reddit that was interesting And that guy was the head of BD for con and asked and he reached out and said look we have this mutual friend I heard about you. Let's have a call and he basically pitched us on doing a licensing deal And I would learn later that this was basically a test to see if we were reasonable to work with and And and we were willing to do it and and then it was clear that they wanted to do more than just this licensing deal And you know we were there with we were a year in the reddit and it seemed crazy that they wanted to Buy us and for the amount of money that they did and and you know we talked to a few other places I reached out actually we got really far with the Washington Post They almost we we we tried to get them in the mix and they declined they didn't want to pay So I didn't want to match Kanda's offer and So reddit could have been bought by by WP and I but instead it was conda him At the time, you know, we really just thought it was gonna make sense Because there may maybe they were gonna be some synergies con and asked clearly knew about how to how to sell a media company to advertisers They knew the media world It seemed like this was a really good strategic move on their part if you look in hindsight This was an amazing amazing investment on their part But we also just really didn't know a lot We were 23 and if I were giving advice to a founder, which I I've done a few times now in this situation I would have them really Really think long and hard about it Because in hindsight you wouldn't have sold it that early the it was not the right business decision for sure But I don't regret it because it gave me I mean it changed my life. I'm grateful for it. No doubt. But yeah, objectively speaking reddit is I mean reddit's the fourth most traffic So in the US now, I think if we were more mature and if we had If if someone had just sat us down and smacked us and been like look there are problems You have you can solve them like take this as a really strong signal. You're on the right track and keep going Okay, and now you're an investor. So Gary and you started a VC fund Gary tan Legend love Gary tan. We should he's in Singapore now. He is on a plane. He is on a plane right now He might have Wi-Fi So I'd like to think that if you guys are tweeting at Gary tan, which you should just tell him Hey for me say hi to at Gary tan. Yeah, gary. Why two hours tan Okay, cool. So, you know, how have the experiences that you've had as the founder helped you be a better investor You know, I think all the all I mean all everyone here has y'all have companies right or you're aspiring founders presumably How many of you are aspiring founders or aspiring founders? Okay, okay solid and the rest y'all just got tricked into coming here. Got it. Y'all probably reddit fans. That's awesome Thank you for editing or I'm actually my money is on just confused and like got tricked into being here Like who is this guy? The the thing I will say is, you know founders especially once you've got some traction especially once you've got The kind of thing investors are looking at You get to be really picky and and that's great because a lot of investors are just dumb money or worse And I think the biggest asset that I had Was was just having experience founding a company and it seems kind of obvious But the vast majority of VCs don't have a ton of experience and if they do it was from a few decades ago And so it's not the most relevant and you know game recognized game if if you are a Founder who's looking for someone to help your company I think founders today more and more so are gonna look for someone who can help who can actually help beyond just writing a check So I think it's been my biggest asset and and then obviously the other one is just working with Gary Cuz yeah, he's amazing if you don't know Gary Tan just follow him right now on Twitter and say hi for me Say hello to Gary Tan. No Gary's the man. Seriously. Everyone can't be still sleep on Gary. Sounds good. And You've got a story that's about your wall of negative reinforcement. Oh, yeah Tell us about it. And how has that made you kinder to the people who pitch you? So I had I still have a wall of negative reinforcement, which is may sound weird and slightly masochistic but Still say you're a rounding error. Yeah. Yeah, it's digital now. I have it in a folder on my computer, but We had you know, you're gonna have people for sure who are gonna criticize stuff. You're working on that's fine it happens and And I've found one of the really effective ways of dealing with it is Before it was literally putting it on my wall next to my desk And so a bunch of the early blog posts ripping on Reddit and comments on forums ripping on Reddit I ended up putting on the wall and and I still do this again digitally but the one that really the crowning moment was Was when we got invited out to the Valley it was our first trip to the Valley like five months into Reddit to Pitch Yahoo because an executive there had said like hey come on over. We're curious about learning more and in that meeting he asked he asked about our traffic and You know we're early companies happy to tell him and so I told him there's a few thousand users a day not a lot And it looks at us. He's just like You guys are a rounding error compared to yahoo Like that is cool. I know. Yeah, and he was like, what are you doing here? I was like you invited us like who? Is this a thing yahoo does like you just invite early-stage startups and then just shit all over them like who does that and And that meeting did not go well Shocker but when we got back I put that on the wall you were rounding Aaron and I still think of this guy He's I haven't seen him since He's still in tech and And I'd love to be at a party or something and just go up to him. I was like you've never run into him I'm not believe me. I want to because I would thank him. I'm sure he doesn't remember it I'm sure he doesn't remember it. I hope he's watching this. I would thank him I know he's gonna watch him just if he is watching this And he should be No, if he is watching this he's just gonna be like, man, I wonder who that idiot was but he's not gonna know it was him I'm pretty sure And and I did take certain satisfaction in seeing reddit pass yahoo on Alexa for us traffic a few months ago and I told that story to the company and and I wanted I also wanted them to realize that we still have a long and we still have a lot of work to do but that We had been dismissed and slept on and everything for a long time and we'll still continue to be and that's okay Because we're actually quite all right with that and and I hope for all of you With whatever you want to do whether it is a startup or whether it's be an artist or whatever it is There are going to be people who are going to try to shit all over your dreams and And and please find Motivation out of that However, you do it Hopefully a little bit more healthy than putting it on a wall to see every day at work What to each his own But it helped you It did it did. I just hope it doesn't discourage you I just hope it doesn't discourage you and in best case, it'll just motivate you and fuel you so So you're one of the earliest investors in GA and you've also invested in our opportunity fund Could you tell us why you decided to invest in education? Yes, um well, okay general assembly as a As a business was a no-brainer because of the title shift in education that was happening Where we have And and this is the case so for those of you not familiar with education in the us um We've managed to convince the majority of the population that they should take on absurd amounts of student loan debt in order to get a piece of paper that may or may not actually get them a job and and it's tragic because It's it's the best oftentimes. It's with the best of intentions Um, but it's encumbered an entire generation with with a lot of debt debt that you can't even get out of bt dub And obviously higher ed in the states is is absurdly expensive. So it's um, it's a problem. There has to be a c change there And technology, especially learning how to code Is like the new literacy and so when the GA founder said look, we're teaching the new literacy It's going to be affordable. It's not going to be accredited But you will be able to get a job So you won't get a piece of paper, but you'll get a job That's important. That was really compelling and and so And and it obviously made sense It just made sense from a societal standpoint and a business standpoint And so it's been exciting watching it grow because not just within the us, but internationally There is I I have I have seen firsthand what software can do for someone who has access and the skills to make the most out of it And and we've never seen a time like quite like this where I mean I can look any one of you in the eye and say that you are capable of building A multi-billion dollar company starting with a laptop and internet connection and your brain like In the industrial age, right and actually, I mean, singapore is such an amazing example of of rapid change and innovation um You know the industrial age required factories and labor and money to get started and in the internet age The fact you don't have to open a factory. You just have to open a laptop is really really powerful And and I would love for more people to at least be exposed to it Even if they decide like no, it's not for me I would I would much rather they be exposed to it And what are some of the problems that you wish that people would solve that you would like to invest in? Oh man, wow, um All of the things It's tricky because I know y'all proud do y'all watch silicon valley on HBO Yeah, such a good hot dog app such a good show wait out. Is that is that a recent episode? So basically I think like they release this thing that shows you like whether your food is a hot dog or not And it's meant to like create buzz for the new season of the show or something. Really? Yeah I want to try this out. Okay um So that's a perfect example silicon valley does a very good job making fun of silicon valley, which is appropriate It's very appropriate. And I know every founder there Everyone talks about hey, we're inventing the future. We're changing the world and it's absurd and rightly so we should laugh at that um the All that said that's exactly the stuff that really Really impresses Me and I think I think all of us right. I mean elan musk is the obvious example But I think we I think the more that we are willing to Go after some of those really massive big scary problems um The more we're gonna inspire and and the more likely someone's actually gonna solve it and for every 400 dollar juice machine I mean that was so dumb Why the juicero, you know what i'm talking about? Yeah, I know google it. It's ridiculous Like For every one of those, um, there's probably a hundred of them. Maybe a thousand but there's one Uh, that is actually, you know autonomous cars. I mean that It was a we we invested in a cruise which was acquired by general motors and We invested that thing four years ago Maybe five And we thought it was gonna be like a research project We really thought we knew kyle from way back in the day one of the founders We thought, you know, he's this smart team, but I mean autonomous cars It's gonna take a minute like and good luck guys, but here you go And uh, you know last year acquired by general motors for a billion dollars and the self-driving car Races is very much on And it it just takes a little bit of that inertia to now I mean we're seeing four or five companies in the states alone who are vying to try to be the first to market And then we're seeing a place like singapore where i mean y'all can actually Pull something like that off like if I if I were to put money on which which states or city states or cities Whatever locales, um We're gonna be the first to have that fleet. I mean y'all at the top of the list Yeah, I think um, we launched it just before uber did there was a company here called neotonomy that did uh driverless Cars on public roads. Yeah, we'd be great country for that and it's and it is like It's crazy And that's the stuff that gives me hope when I see the four hundred dollar juice machines and And so look and if those of you those of you who are working on four hundred dollar juice machines That's fine. I get it. You want to pay the bills? but but uh, there's this amazing amazing opportunity and it's For for all of the challenges and all the problems we have in this world um software is obviously not the magic wand But can be such a such a a A way to scale solutions That uh, that I hope y'all will take up the challenge Thank you. So I've got just a few more minutes with you. So this is going to be a rapid fire round I'm going to say something and you're going to say the first things that come to mind, okay? Okay durian Have you actually eaten it? Of course. I love this is where I first had durian And I know it smells a little bad, but it's delicious. John. You're going to try some you've never had it before It's my boy. John. He knows. Oh, yeah, big do a lot of durian fans. That's what's accepting you as an honorary singaporean You know, it's durian. Here's the only problem though is you can't bring them on a bus You can't even bring them on trains or anything. Yeah, you can't no no durian They don't smell good. They taste good. That's your favorite movie and why? Uh aliens Because I must have watched it like a thousand times as a kid. It's a great film. Okay favorite book and why? Uh Wow, do I not read? You read a lot of reddit. I'm trying to think I spent a lot of time reading. Oh animal farm I'm not gonna see my own book without their permission a national bestseller No animal farm That's good book Okay, um, so three people that you would invite out to dinner and what would you ask them? They can be alive dead or fictional. Okay, gotta have Warren Buffett at the table What would you ask him? I'd just be like, what's up Warren? I'd ask him if he uses reddit. He would say no And then I would just watch just want to talk to him about life and bridge and investing Okay, second person Wow, um Alive or dead Uh, oh Thomas Jefferson because I'd be like, what's up tj? Like you are a really complicated dude, weren't you? Finding father the states, you know decoration independence, but not for everybody slave owner. What's up, dude? Um, and then What it's true. Tom and it's and it's just like how but okay I mean, but also a founding father. Oh, and Lee Kuan Yew. What's up? Oh, that's that's sweet Okay, cool. No, but seriously, no the singapore miracle is like, I mean I There is I I got asked a lot after a sopa pipa, which were these awful laws that we defeated in the states Um about running for office and I was like, nope Don't ever want to do it because I don't feel like you could make much of an impact Doing that. Um, but then you look at and it requires the right environment, right? But what what leak when he was able to do here as a leader and and like that like that's the That's the dream, right? You kind of hope to be able to create something like that and the legacy obviously is going to live on for a while um So yeah, no I too mean that sounds good. Um, so this is from your college application from way back when So in your resume and I called that you'd put your objective as to get an undergraduate degree And pursue a career in medicine medicine. Have you ever wondered about, you know being a doctor? Uh I would have been a terrible doctor. I think actually would have been an okay doctor. You think I would have been okay doctor I'm asking lizzie and john We wouldn't have ready. I was gonna be a lawyer. Yeah. Well, okay So I lasted I was the kid who I think like a lot of people applied to college thinking I was a doctor And then a week into my chemistry class Dropped it And realized that wasn't going to be a doctor and then I was going to be a cs major And then I met steve and then I was like nope I'm just going to take classes for fun in cs and I made it in history and business But as a history major I thought I was going to be a lawyer And then I walked out of an l sat On like a saturday morning the test you have to take in order to be a lawyer I walked out of it within about 30 minutes and went and got a waffle From waffle house, I don't think waffle houses are in singapore No, we don't have waffle. They're amazing. They're amazing 24 hours delicious. It's affordable You go I went in the middle of the day, which is a weird time to go to a waffle house You want to go like three in the morning? Because the clientele it's very entertaining, but waffles changed my life. This was a speed round You're taking longer than 30 seconds. I need to cut you off now So do you have a morning or a nightly routine that you follow? I try to Every morning and well every night for sure and usually every morning I try to I'm in a long distance relationship So I try to call up or face time my fiancee It's important like a collective off from the audience especially the long distance you really got to put in the work So top three life moments Calling my mom and telling her we had sold reddit Uh Finding out I was going to be a dad congratulations, by the way. Oh, thank you and Oh, man. Oh, yeah proposing. That was a good one too. Okay You know lissy like sitting over there. She had to like show her ring. Yeah, so yeah No, no, I'm definitely not engaged to Lizzie. Have you ever played um tennis against your fiancee? Uh, no, I don't I've never picked up a racket Okay, cool. Uh, so we're almost at the end of this Do you have any last words that you want to say to our audience in singapore before we close off? Thank you so much That was short and sweet. Thank you so much, Alexis. Oh, thank you