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15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I will say one of the most interesting conversations was with Max Neukirchen, the global co-head of JP Morgan Payments.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 15 Dec 2025
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- Acquired
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…Acquired residency in Las Vegas, baby. No. What we did do is we took the stage at the beautiful Venetian Theater at AWS Reinvent. We did four really just incredible interviews with the CEOs of Netflix, Perplexity, AWS, and JP Morgan Payments. I will say, Ben, it was extra special in retrospect. We were talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix, and asking him how Netflix is reshaping Hollywood just a few hours before they announced the Warner Brothers acquisition. He has a pretty good poker face given that we were in Vegas and all that. Yeah, that he does. Also, very funny to interview Matt Garmin from AWS at his own event. I will say one of the most interesting conversations was with Max Neukirchen, the global co-head of JP Morgan Payments. We dug into this question that I've always wondered about. How did the leading global bank also come to own this technology business that does $18 billion a year in annual revenue on its own, separate from the rest of JP Morgan? Yeah, it's wild. If JP Morgan payments were a standalone company, it would very likely be in the Fortune 500, but it's also part of JP Morgan.…
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