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David Rosenthal: belief

15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

“I think the biggest reason Acquired works is how you started off the conversation.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
15 Dec 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…Right. I think the biggest reason Acquired works is how you started off the conversation. It's our partnership. If just one of us were making Acquired, it would be a shadow of itself. The magic exists between us. There's a million times over the last 10 years, where if we hadn't just been burning cigarettes on our arms aligned, it wasn't even a conversation. Had our partnership been slightly different, it would've fractured. That's why we're still here. I want to conclude this conversation because we don't want to go three hours. I want do it by doing the Seven Powers and apply it.…

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