David Rosenthal: belief

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…A bunch of access and a bunch of insiders sending him stuff, breaking it real time on Twitter. It was one of these things where we're like there's no daylight here for us to talk about it. We actually felt the same way about FTX, which you could argue that we did have a part to play in FTX because Sam was on the show last year, but there was so much good coverage and good reporting going on, we're not reporters, and we don't do stuff in real time, blah-blah-blah, that it felt like the right way to have Acquired add to the conversation is go do a hundred hours of research on Enron and try to indirectly draw as many parallels as we can. We don't want to hit people over the head with this is just like an FTX where they had this. It's more of how can we bring up ideas for people that they can draw their own parallels? It's been interesting to watch this past week. Who knows if it was coincidental or not, but I think at least two major news outlets have run pieces in the past week with a title like how FTX compares to Enron. It was obvious. It's obvious to draw that parallel.…

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