David Rosenthal: belief

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…It truly would’ve been. Yeah, the whole thing shot in the same room. Amazing. Okay. My carve-out, more of a stretch to connect it to the current episode, but I’m going to try. I have been rereading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. I might have had this be a carve-out years ago on Acquired, so good, it's classic. The whole thing is about the fall of a dominant society and its replacement by an upstart society. An allegory for Rome or whatever you can apply it to the current state of the world right now. I think you could also maybe it’s a stretch, but maybe you could apply it here at Apple and Epic too. The galactic empire that falls, falls because it stops doing its job. It becomes all about politics, and it loses its technological edge. One of the main themes in the book is that nuclear power and knowledge of how to harness it and continue developing it gets lost in the empire. And it's only the foundation, this tiny little, edge of the galaxy upstart that has that power. Having the ability to be on the cutting edge of technology and the nimbleness to move fast with it, probably going to win. Indeed. Well, that's a great, great place to leave it. Well, listeners if you aren't subscribed and you like what you hear, you totally should. If you have a friend who you think should check out this episode or any other episode—maybe they are a gamer, or maybe they've also talked about The Mandalorian with you and want to understand more about the company that powered it—share the episode. We love it when you share it with new folks. Thanks so much for doing that. As always, if you love Acquired and you want to hone your own craft of company building, you should join the community of Acquired Limited Partners. You'll get access to the LP show where we dive deeper into the fundamentals of company building and investing. In addition to our monthly LP calls where we talk directly with all of you, of course, our book club, and our Zoom calls with the authors. To give you a little preview of our most recent LP episode, it was one in our fundamentals of venture capital series, of which were due and six, maybe seven—David, we got to decide. But this was the one on basically how VC firms make decisions mechanically, as different people in the firm are involved. Which is helpful to know if you're pitching, if you're aspiring to be an investor, or frankly if you just want to know how other investors do it and you're active today. If you aren't already a limited partner, you can click the link in the show notes or go to acquire.fm/lp. And of course, all new listeners get a 7-day free trial. If you want to hang out with the Acquired community, join us in the Slack. Listeners, we will see you next time.…

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