Michael Lewis

And Ben, you and I have looked up to Michael forever, so this was really special.

Yes, indeed.

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Yes, just like how we say every company has a story, every company's story is powered by payments, and JPMorgan Payments is a part of so many of their journeys from seed to IPO and beyond.

With that, on to our conversation with Michael Lewis.

Well, Michael, thank you for joining us.

Total pleasure.

We have a little something since this is our 10-year anniversary that we're celebrating that we need to do before we start.

Okay.

So you went to Princeton.

I went to Princeton.

Yep.

My senior thesis would become impactful for Acquired.

I was a French literature major.

I wrote my thesis on the history of Dom Perignon and the marketing history of Shakespeare.

Somehow, I conned the French department into letting me do this.

And what, probably 12, 13 years later, we made our LVMH episode.

And it was a big moment for a choir.

Moet and Chandon has just released the 2015 vintage of Dom Perignon.

2015 is the year we started.