David Rosenthal: belief

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…That's what eats me alive when I get something wrong in an episode. It's a black mark to me, and I can't do anything but see it as the people who I know listen to the show, who are listening to that, and thinking, oh, he didn't quite get that right, because that's how I envisioned our audience. Not that we didn't always think this way, but it's really come to be realized now. We think of our sponsors the same way as our partners. These are amazing companies. How can we build a deeper relationship with them as possible? Totally agree. The sponsorship model is another way that we make a pretty significant trade-off. We only do six-month-season–long sponsorships. We are ridiculously choosy about the people that we do that with, because it's a six-month–long thing to an audience of 250,000 people that happens to be probably the most valuable audience in the world in terms of CEOs, founders, engineers, capital allocators.…

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