Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I think we think about narrative structure, acts, and what a story is. When we're reading books sometimes, a lot of books, especially corporate history books are, this happened, then this happened, then this happened, and then this happened.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Got you. What can you do now as storytellers that you couldn't do 10 years ago? I think we think about narrative structure, acts, and what a story is. When we're reading books sometimes, a lot of books, especially corporate history books are, this happened, then this happened, then this happened, and then this happened. That's fine for cataloging history. That is not a story. At a certain point we realized you can't do, and this happened. Right. It's the why of it.…
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