Michael Lewis
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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.
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 โ 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 โ Have you ever coded or you ever done anything?
I mean, I took some CS classes.
classes in college, but I'd never built anything.
And so I was like, and Ben had built all these things.
You built the this for that website.