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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
12 May 2022 Acquired Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity
“We learned from Arena Shows past, very small live shows past, that our normal format of telling a three-plus hour story of a business doesn't work very well in this sort of time where you're sitting down and you can feel the audience getting antsy in those long stories.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 12 May 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I hear Paul McCartney is here? Yes, Paul McCartney is here tonight. We had a great show for you, that was last night. We do have a great show, though. Tonight we have Jim Weber, the CEO of Brooks Running. Another Seattle monster business that we're very excited to talk to you about. We have Anu Hariharan tonight from Y Combinator, the infamous Packy McCormick from Not Boring, and Mario Gabriele from The Generalist, to the Internet's finest publications. Very excited to chop it up with them. We learned from Arena Shows past, very small live shows past, that our normal format of telling a three-plus hour story of a business doesn't work very well in this sort of time where you're sitting down and you can feel the audience getting antsy in those long stories. We got three just fast-paced great stories, great segments for you tonight, that will be in and out in a couple of hours. We'll enjoy it along the way, but it's going to feel fast relative to your normal Acquired episode. Speaking of, should we start our normal Acquired episode?…
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