Ben Gilbert: preference

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…Yes, which was super cool. I would love to do more of that. I got to meet everybody at Fundrise, our biggest partner for the year. The whole team, all 300 people at the company, were there at the off-site. It was very cool. All this to say, it leads me to believe that much like all the other trade-offs we make, we just need to figure out, how do we 80/20 it? What are the things that we care the most about, and how do we not do the long tail of stuff? I think it means pick one episode per year to do a massive live show and throw the Acquired Super Bowl/wedding. Maybe once a year is even too often, because God, it's a lift. But then feel free to do a bunch of in-person stuff with our partners, with our sponsors, with people that we like, work with on the show anyway and want to just continue to build deeper relationships with, but those aren't necessarily episodes. Yup. That has been a huge highlight for me for the year. I think we have found a way. I don't know that anybody would have thought it was possible as a podcast, as a media business, to really build deep relationships with our sponsors and our partners. I think almost every single one of them, we did something like the Fundrise all hands or a conference. Most of them now, a very large percentage of our sponsors, we've invested in.…

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