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Ben Gilbert

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Right.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Yup, dynamic ads from an ad network.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

You can say yes to all these things, and you can sugar high the current profits.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Or you can try to figure out how to store up as much potential energy as you can.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

And I think once you kind of hit the point in life where money won't make you any happier, then there's actually not a point to letting any of that potential energy out.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

It just creates goodwill for everyone.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

most principally, selfishly yourself to keep it bottled.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Right.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

All right.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Also, can I just say, like, sometimes we do some stuff like this.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We are not, like, saints.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We're capitalists.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Like, we're running a capitalist enterprise here.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Sometimes we, last year we added a fourth ad slot.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We always had three.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Last year we looked at ourselves and we said, there's four-hour podcast episodes.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We're currently at, like, 2%, 3% ad load.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Everyone else is at 15%.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

God forbid we go to 4.5% of time.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

So, like, we indulge occasionally.