David Senra: belief

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…You're still a one-man show. No one touches everything. I'm going to answer your question, but I also think this is a perfect point to how we became friends and why. I'm putting this out on my feet. You're going to be the first non David Senra voices that ever heard on Founders. The reason I only agree to do it with you guys is because this goes back to why I want to be surrounded with, first of all, people to have like-interest, super smart people. but also people that have positive thinking. Patrick O'Shaughnessy has this gigantic, successful show, Invest Like the Best. He's got Colossus Podcast Network. It's fun, it's called Positive Sum, and that's how he acts. I joined his network. This is months later. They're like, hey, we have editors, whatever. He has this empire over there and resources. He's like, what do you want? I was like, I just want you to amplify my audience and then connect me with first rate advertisers because I think Acquired is a luxury podcast. Maybe not luxury, premium. We got to go over the distinction there for LVMH. We're saying, no, no, we're trying to set the bar here. Anyway, he's like, do you want editors? Do you want any of this stuff? I was like, no, one gets to touch my stuff. People think, oh, do they tell you what books to read? I'm like, no, Patrick liked my show and he's just like, why would I tell you? Whatever you're doing, just do it to more people now. To answer your question, no. I picked the books, I recorded them, I edited. I'm still a one-person show. I don't know if that happened forever, but I do think about the fact that I spent so much time with the material and got it in my brain. I want to talk about the role you guys played in that, where we're on Zoom. The background here is we'd known of each other. I talked to Ben a long time ago because he was running this private podcast years ago. It's also funny to think back on all the dead ends that we went to. We went down a ton. I know you went down a ton. You're about to talk about some of them. There are so many dead ends.…

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