Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPatrick O'Shaughnessy: belief
7 Oct 2020 Acquired Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
“I never want to fall into that trap. It will remain driven by what's interesting to us, not what we think other people want to hear or not some backdoor into a business outcome that we're trying to achieve.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Oct 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Not only will you then attract brilliant people, but it forces you to play at a higher level so that you get to keep engaging brilliant people. Yeah, I think that's so important. The second people smell sales—it has a stench. I never want to fall into that trap. It will remain driven by what's interesting to us, not what we think other people want to hear or not some backdoor into a business outcome that we're trying to achieve. Are there moments you remember from the last four years either something happened to a particular show, a particular guest that moved the needle in a big way, or where you were like holy crap. This is bigger than I realized.…
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