Ben Gilbert: belief

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…You can't have pre-sold a commitment to your partners that you're going to do six of those every six months. Exactly. Stay tuned for how this will work in practice. But the way we're thinking about it for next year and some early conversations—it seems like this is going to work—is you get the next three interviews. We promise you they're going to be world class, and we have no idea when they will come out. They're probably going to come out next year, but we can't tell you much beyond that. I think that to the extent that we find and continue to find great partners who want to work with us as sponsors in that way, that works really well to make sure that the content bar is where it needs to be, the audience is happy, and that we can frankly blow it out of the water the way that we do on the season episodes for our sponsors. What does that mean for ACQ2? I should say, ACQ2 next year is going to be so much better because there's all this inbound that we get for Acquired that we've decided doesn't make sense on Acquired. What that means is we are getting crazy good guests for ACQ2. It would feel silly not to point people toward that when I know it's coming next year, so I'm excited about that too. I completely obviously agree with you on the implications for the business model and not slot-filling. You can't predict when serendipitously, you're going to get a chance to interview Jensen or interview Charlie, but this is our opportunity. What interviews do we want in a perfect world to do in the next set of time here for Acquired?…

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