Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…And just as importantly, dozens, if not more than dozens that are going to be coming up over the next set of years. David, what you're getting to here is now that we're both full-time on Acquired, we finally have the opportunity to do our investing together, then do it in a way that's uniquely Acquired, and that is native to Acquired. There's no big announcement or anything, but that's the thing to share with the Acquired community. I've been writing these little angel checks into probably 10-ish of our sponsors at this point, ACQ2 guests, and companies we've gotten to know. We're finally going to be able to do that at scale and do it together in a way that we're not spending a lot of our time hearing early stage pitches or anything like that. But for companies that we already know well, David and I are going to join our investing forces and invest more in those growth-stage market-leading tech companies. An early example of this, our great friends over at Vanta and their CEO, Christina, have been very, very kind guinea pigs for us. Vanta has been a long-time partner of the show. We've helped grow their business. Last year, Kindergarten Ventures, the early stage angel list fund that I run with my friend Nat, we did a $10 million SPV in Vanta's Series B. Now is a great test of, can we invest in a market leading company and put meaningful capital to work? That's a playbook that we're now going to be able to run more often.…

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