Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMichael Lewis: belief
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“Now in that first episode, I think there are more ads than there are you two speaking.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Michael Lewis
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Really, I think it was like the burned cigarettes on our arm. I think we just both so believed that that was the right thing to do. Something had happened before that. You would figure out how to do this. You'd figured out how to study a business in a way that was really interesting. The first episodes, not that interesting. It was just not that much I didn't know, hadn't thought of, whatever. I don't know much about Pixar, and it's 30 minutes or whatever it is. Now in that first episode, I think there are more ads than there are you two speaking. Now we pride ourselves on having the lowest ads in the entire industry.…
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