David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah. I've always thought about it, not as a flywheel, and I think this is Ben Thompsonism—laddering up. Where once you have someone on some wrong, then they become a part of the way that you're able to describe the show to the next great guest. Let's move on to Playbook. We've touched on several Playbook themes here, and I think we should introduce a couple of new ones and surmise our takeaways. Where if you wanted to run a Playbook similar to what Patrick has done over the various stages of these different businesses, what would it be? David, I'm curious, you've got one here that we haven't touched specifically on, but I think it's just an awesome observation. There was a really interesting exchange on Twitter. I think, Ben, you sent this to me. You texted this to me when it happened a couple of weeks ago. Taylor Pearson and Austin Rief from Morning Brew, talking about the investment business. I can’t recall for this specifically VC or the investment business period. Obviously, a period for our purposes here—really becoming the media business. I think we are referring to you, Patrick, and others as well. Turner Novak's done such a great job building a platform for investing in Twitter. Blake Robbins, Matthew Ball, so many people. Austin responded it's not just the investment business. Every business is turning into the media business in some way, shape, or form. It wasn't premeditated. It sounds like for you necessarily, Patrick. What do you think about that?…

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