Ben Gilbert

Like my wife won't listen to episodes because she's like, I've already heard four versions of the episode.

And unfortunately I heard like four worse versions.

And because I endure that and give you feedback, the listener actually gets the better version.

Right.

David knew all the Apple rumors in real time, just like I did.

You had read all the latest Stratechery posts.

And I think, you can tell me if this is...

mutual but i looked up to you because you were doing a thing that was mysterious to me which was venture capital i was a software engineer and i got hired to work at a venture firm to do some incubation work but i didn't know anything about like the real job of venture capital and here's david someone who's just a few years older than me like doing that thing but kind of in my like peer age group and i could i could like lean over and be like what are they talking about

Absolutely.

It wasn't French literature.

No, no, no.

I only found out years into doing Acquired.

He was a French lit major.

I think I felt lesser.

There were a lot of things when we started doing Acquired where we were doing this business analysis podcast, but I didn't know finance.

It's different, though, than a difference in status.

I don't feel that you or I have ever felt we had a difference in status.

And the number of fights we've had or real tension we've had is like two, three ever in 10 years.

I mean, it's weirdly none.

In particular, Acquired has clearly worked.