Ben Gilbert: observation

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…This had never happened to any of our episodes before. Until this year, we were not exposed to this part of the Internet. Nothing had algorithmically blown up and reached a lot of people quickly. The only way anybody had really heard of Acquired until this year was their friend told them. That is always going to be a really high quality way to grow your audience. But if an audience grows quickly, the masses just enter and you get who shows up. I think for both of us, this really clarified what we really want and meant by this. We're a little wary about growth. It's not that we're worried about growth. It's that we want to keep this place that's about knowledge.…

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