Michael Lewis

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11,580 appearances 71 recordings 16 series first heard Sep 2020 last heard 23 Jun

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Acquired · 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · 15 Dec 2025 podcast

Google's founder controlled too.

But there's also just like a personal choice element.

Last year, we...

We had a existential crisis that's way too dramatic.

But I think something that was on our minds was like, are we being wussies?

We're not adding more shows.

We're not building an enterprise.

So we sought some advice.

And we went to one of the best investors ever, who we've gotten to know.

He was a fan of the show.

Somebody everybody would know.

And we asked him to dinner.

And we just sort of did like, hey, we've got this.

We could do all these things.

We're not.

Hollywood, et cetera.

Like, you know, go for it.

Like, you know, you guys are being wussies.

And he sort of sat there and he thought a minute and he said, I have seen so many founders become trapped in prisons of their own making in their own companies.

Yeah, yeah.

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