David Rosenthal: commitment

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…Yes, learning from that. Totally, aside, but we have no agenda here. That is I think both an advantage that we have, all three of us and a secret that we have, which is that we did Walmart because we wanted to do Amazon. We're like, how do we do Amazon? We got to do Walmart first. People want this. This is the right way to study things. I'm glad you brought that up because I think this is why people get a lot of value. I don't want us to make it about, hey, this is an Acquired founder show. The reason that some of the people in our audiences are the most successful people in the world, they're all reading biographies, they're all studying the history of business. A few weeks ago, I was very lucky to have a two-hour one-on-one lunch with Sam Zell that I didn't think was possible. What I realized in that conversation is you don't sell Sam Zell's company for almost $40 billion, $38 billion, or whatever it was. You don't build a company, sell it for $40 billion, and then learn all this. He was doing this since he was young. We were talking in his autobiography.…

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