Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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19 published records
01 / belief
“We were trying to compete in that area. So we learned a lot afterwards about how to do a better job for that ecosystem of venture capital.”
02 / recommendation
“if you have to work for anybody, I would absolutely say work for him because he gave you all the authority and responsibility you wanted.”
03 / evaluation
“That investment is always people, branches, and technology.And that's true whether it's investment banking people or consumer bank people, or opening consumer branches, or, I think Doug Pennos here and Troy Rohrbach who runs the global investment bank...”
04 / preference
“Because if you're a sports fan, where are you getting your really good, hardcore, in-the-locker-room sports journalism from?”
05 / prediction
“The thing that I think we're going to talk about is that we've got a much wider product set now in every way: more coverage, more topics, more formats.”
06 / evaluation
“And you have some upside. I would say at 23, there's not a lot of upside, and there's a long way to fall.”
07 / evaluation
“Well, everyone, when we started Acquired 10 years ago, if you told us we would be playing Radio City Music Hall, I don't think in our wildest, wildest dreams we could have dreamed this big.”
08 / evaluation
“Yeah, well, they've been a combination of building and buying. But I would say, in my time at The Times, there are three companies that we've bought — three things we've acquired — that have gone really well because they hang from that deliberate strategy I just described.”
09 / commitment
“We bought it for $30 billion, discounted to tangible book value because they had debt, and we left the debt behind.”
10 / evaluation
“All the stuff I think I learned about, if I ever learned anything—people who work with me might not totally agree—but learning how to manage people is because you understand the tasks that need to be done.”
11 / commitment
“Excuse me, which way back? I started this brand because I started being told no—no to my dreams.”
12 / evaluation
“They lose trust. And that was because you've seen runs on banks—and you saw some recently—because people run to take their money out.”
13 / preference
“When I meet someone whose podcast I listen to, as I'm doing with you guys, I think you're my running partners, because I've spent hours on a run listening to the two of you talk.”
14 / recommendation
“' There was mail. And so it jumped out at me as I was reading the book, because it felt like the thing that David and I have stumbled on with Acquired is: immerse yourself in a massive amount of primary research.”
15 / evaluation
“All right, our final guest for the evening is a CEO who, despite us having not yet covered his current company on Acquired, I think, over the course of his over 60-year career, has led more companies in and around the Acquired universe than just about any other human being in history.”
16 / commitment
“I was going to go down with the ship. I made it clear to everyone I was here permanently, and it will be what it is.”
17 / evaluation
“"Before I surrender, I want you to know the circumstances by which we bought WaMu and Bear Stearns, because 80% of what they're asking for related to Bear Stearns and WaMu, not JPMorgan Chase.”
18 / commitment
“And we are also, you know, eager to partner with companies when the terms are right and make sense. And as we've done, we just did a partnership with Amazon, and we did that because we saw it as having sustainable, fair value exchange and giving The Times control over how its journalism and other content would be used.”
19 / evaluation
“you may not remember this, but the leverage, because of accounting rules and Basel III (and Basel I), for investment banks (particularly the big investment banks) went from 12 times leverage to 35 times leverage.”