Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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31 published records
01 / belief
“I think there are different variations of how you do this, but there’s a startup variation of it which is somebody gets up, there’s a PowerPoint deck behind them, and they don’t know what it is.”
02 / commitment
“There are other funny ways you can do it, but I won't go into those that are slightly in the grey area.”
03 / belief
“I think we can talk about GPT-3, we can talk about crypto stuff. There are other frontier technology things at the moment, but probably five times in the last couple of months, I've had a really smart people that I've tried to recruit to start something with me to join a PSL company who are saying, actually, after doing some reflecting, I'm going to go work on some climate stuff.”
04 / uncertainty
“Your mic setup is godly. I don’t know if it’s your voice or your mic, but something is perfect.”
05 / belief
“I think the deal closed in 2008, so let’s say 2007—started thinking along these lines.”
06 / belief
“I think people are just realizing how crazy hard it is and they're like, wait a minute.”
07 / belief
“I know you can roll appreciated stock in, which I think is similar to a 1031 exchange without paying tax on it.”
08 / commitment
“You can basically say, hey, we will boost your WiFi through either those mesh network routers, or just provide WiFi where you don’t have WiFi.”
09 / belief
“I'm going to give a little bit of a different answer than I think we're looking for here.”
10 / belief
“I think one of the reasons why there is no good funding structure for it and Cleantech failed.”
11 / belief
“David will be like, hey, I think there is this really big way we can move the needle for Acquired.”
12 / belief
“There's also this guy. The guy who created Control Labs (I think), which got bought by Facebook.”
13 / uncertainty
“There’s a game (I don’t know if you’ve ever heard it) called PowerPoint Karaoke.”
14 / belief
“Here’s what I think is cool though—totally doable. You could stand this up on Webflow and do a little bit of other no code stuff in the background.”
15 / belief
“You got to figure out some way to bootstrap that cold start problem. But I think the data entry is really easy, and you could do cool stuff over time like charting how it’s gone up and down.”
16 / commitment
“Insurance is the best business ever. I won't do a spoiler alert, I'll do a teaser.”
17 / belief
“I think that’s a valuable service itself. But if you’re trying to build your own network of longer-term rental properties, this would be a great growth hack.”
18 / belief
“I think a SPAC index fund is interesting, and I want to know how you create an index fund.”
19 / uncertainty
“I don't know if he's working on this, but I saw him talking about or tweeting about, we really could just go put solar panels into space and harness the sun's energy that way and then beat it to the earth or something crazy.”
20 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you guys have ever heard this but, Bill Gross, who’s the founder of Idealab.”
21 / commitment
“You don't need to put up $2 million for the solar installation. We will do it—Chevron—out of our profits from oil and gas.”
22 / commitment
“I kept every email I sent and things like that because I want to help the next entrepreneur who’s going to be like me—needs this.”
23 / evaluation
“From my experience, you don’t need them unless you hit product-market fit. Sometimes, the E is totally off base.”
24 / prediction
“For everybody else, I realized that the core problem was we want to beat Twitch.”
25 / evaluation
“That’s a frustrating and sometimes disheartening job. But I think finding that spot in the middle where you can believe in other people’s ideas as much as you do your own that you get excited about and apply the same amount of skeptical rigor that you do the things you’re being pitched to things you come up with, that’s where the magic lies in the middle.”
26 / commitment
“We bought the company, that brand, the domain, the email list, and all that stuff for $1 million.”
27 / evaluation
“I don’t think CNBC media properties have to pay for it. Because I think that’s just public.”
28 / prediction
“I don’t want to go into too much detail about the mechanics. But I think if you were to bet on SPACs as a whole and say they all go public, they trade right around $10 a share because they’re effectively worth exactly the amount of cash that they have in the bank, which is a trust in the Cayman Islands or something that's untouchable.”
29 / evaluation
“Because I need to sell this company. It’s not going to be the mega home run we think, but there is some value here.”
30 / evaluation
“The whole team that was working on it—the majority of the team, 95% of the team—is at Twitch and got bought because we had built a whole bunch of things.”
31 / commitment
“When we bought it, we did one smart thing, which was we had some predefined ground rules.”