Michael Lewis

Well, I can tell you our episodes are much better than my actual thesis.

She had just bought the house.

And posted a bulletin notice on the Stanford campus that there was space available here.

Well, I'm curious if you think, I've always believed something that's always been there from the beginning is the magic between me and Ben.

Yes.

We like to say that we each have two spouses.

We have our actual romantic spouses that we have families with, and then we have each other.

No.

Yeah, a little bit.

My spouse loves it because she doesn't actually want to spend that much time with me.

She likes that, like, you know, I used to, all the stuff we do on Acquired, I used to just talk at her, and she wasn't interested.

And now she loves it because I get to talk to, you know...

We bonded over Ben Thompson originally.

I kind of felt like a fraud in a lot of ways.

I repressed this deep down.

But if I'm honest with myself, I think I felt like a fraud as a VC because I never – I went to Princeton.

I was a French literature major.

I worked on Wall Street.

I worked briefly at the Wall Street Journal, and then I became a venture capitalist.

I had no qualification to – Have you ever coded or you ever done anything?