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David Rosenthal

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The average athlete is taking a few million dollars more to move his wife and kids from one family, one city that loves him and that he loves to some strange place where everybody's going to be unhappy.

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Sometimes they end up having kind of negative value.

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And you become a person who that's what you're about.

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It's like you're saying, I'm going to be the person who just follows the financial incentives rather than I'm going to control the, I'm going to let these incentives do, they could be useful.

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They get you out of bed in the morning for a while.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

But you have to kind of control them.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

So I love that you're not milking the market.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We're already doing the thing that we need.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Yeah, the dream is what we're doing.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

All right, so I took us off on a sidetrack.

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We've only gotten through four.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

We've gotten like five or six or seven.

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I want to hear what's the fifth lesson you've learned.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

I think there's an argument to be made that in any industry where they're both private and public companies, the private companies end up being a much better run.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

And I mean, mostly bad things happen when companies go public.

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And certainly less pleasant.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

So public or private, your point is founder control.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

But what is, I'm missing actually the connection.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Why if you were less wussy-ish, would you have created- Hire people, take on- Start a second show.

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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Start a second show.