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Emmett Shear - The New Language of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.9]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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Is the Market Size a Bigger Thing?

The best companies are actually creating markets, rather than exploiting them. The only reason i ask more the market size question is to get a sense for how ambitious the founders are. Amasomna got satt was people who wanted books for people who wanted to buy books on the internet. It's always next month. What's the most important growth number to hit? The one that's coming up right now. Not some theoretical three year, five year model that can be important....

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Yes. My resolution or one of my resolutions for 2025 is to read more female authors. I am very often in the dead man trap where I read a lot of old dead men and what they have written. I just did a big Philip Roth binge. I just bought Proust. But I'm just going to try to read actual female authors and expand my mind from these old dead white men. I
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can help you out with that. I went through a phase like I did an entire summer where I didn't read like any men I didn't even do it on purpose and yeah ladies write books too it's a good point so even though this is my question and I posed it and I sprang it on you I don't really have a new year's resolution on my own but I am going to do my usual very very boring thing which is dry January no booze in January been plenty of booze in December do not need more booze in January so going to be sober. Very, very boring. Yeah, I'll be very boring in January. And yes, I can use that to interrupt your wellness when we speak later in the year. Guys, it's been a blast. We're going to have an excellent 2025. I can feel it in my bones. Hooray. Listeners, Tune I can feel it in my bones. Hooray. Listeners, tune in. We'll be back in your ears pretty soon. to everyone else. Just go to ft.com/unhedged offer. I'm Katie Martin. Thanks for listening.

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