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17 Oct 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

“Certainly, all of those opportunities to do that, I think Sarah says it nicely in part.”

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belief
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17 Oct 2022
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Acquired

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…We've got an even bigger dining room upstairs. How far can we stretch this trial? Certainly, all of those opportunities to do that, I think Sarah says it nicely in part. Our job, we're really focused on how we scale those companies. As part of that, having a relationship that doesn't get sort of adulthood by this question of us making another commitment decision. We're in and we're not evaluating anymore. We're not deciding what a fair price is anymore. We're not trying to decide how to maybe make a strategic call with a company that optimizes for a moment for us to get more capital. There should be, want to remove any chance of doubts, alternative incentives, or questions in that relationship. It can be fully vulnerable. If we do that well, and we've partnered with ideas with great purpose and a long, endless runway to work on, we're all successful scale through their success. We don't need to scale ourselves independently of those companies. I think we'll all view it being small. We'll all do perfectly well, But there are literally million dollar bills on the ground for you to pick up if you were to just put more money in your own companies.…

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