Ben Gilbert: recommendation

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…Yeah. Developer security. You see their billboards all up and down 101 here in San Francisco. He recommended it to me a while back, and it took me a while to get to it, toddler parenting. I read it. I thought it was awesome. Jenny read it. She's, of course, now done the whole series, because she's a voracious reader. The world building, the magical system, all the core fantasy elements are really great. The political intrigue, I highly recommend it. Awesome. We definitely have a few thank yous on this one. Huge thank you to Dave Stearns for spending the time with us and recanting his academic thesis, and it was just awesome reading the book. I have a personal thank you to a good friend of mine, Jason Pate of Plaid. Very helpful to get general, high level thoughts on payments industry. Thank you to Lisa Ellis from Moffett Nathanson. Lisa did an amazing interview with Ben Thompson a few weeks back if you are a Stratechery subscriber. That is totally worth reading and I prefer listening, so go listen to that. After I read that, I shot her an email and I was like, we're about to do Visa. I would love to talk to you about some of this. A huge thanks to her. Good friend of the show, Dimitri from Modern Treasury for helping us quickly get up to speed on payments, and good friend of mine and David's both, Ben Eidelson, who is a former product person from Stripe. Sign up for emails to find out about the latest Acquired episodes to get in on our teasers of what the next episode is going to be, and hear the follow-ups and corrections after we learn them from you. You should join the Slack, acquired.fm/slack. You should check out ACQ2. In particular, our next episode, it is not out yet, but it is going to be a follow-up to this episode on Visa. Our buddy Gaurav from Thrive Capital is joining us for a follow up to analyze the payments landscape today. Gaurav has spent his entire career as a founder and investor in fintech companies. He actually gave a talk on the history of credit cards that we used for research in this episode. Check out ACQ2, search and subscribe to any podcast player. Next week, maybe two weeks, our interview with Gaurav will come out. Be sure to check it out. With that, check out the merch store, acquired.fm/store. You can support some of this—I'm wearing the shirt right now—sweet swag around. You can pay some interchange fees.…

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