David Rosenthal: belief

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…Sometimes they end up having negative value, and you become a person who that's what you're about. It's like you're saying, I'm going to be the person who just follows the financial incentives rather than I'm going to control. They could be useful. They get you out of bed in the morning for a while, but you going to have to control them. I love that you're not milking the market. I think there are two different things that we're talking about here. One is milking the market, yes or no. The other one is, do you want to build an enterprise, or do you want stay a boutique? To your question for us, like why don't we create more Acquireds, we don't want to manage other shows, podcast hosts. People often tell us, oh, you're building this business, you guys are foolish because there are all this key man risk. You're building this great business, but if either of you leave, unfortunately your business has low enterprise value. We're like, but if we sold this business, then we would just go start Acquired. We're already doing the thing.…

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