Fast - I'm Going to Buy Up All the Fast Hoodies

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21 21 fast grows to 450 employees processes a meager 30 million in transactions to generate 600 k in revenue about $1,300 per employee. If they had put that 10 million into a bond portfolio and gotten 4% tax free Would have made eight times as much money. Do you think there's any world in which the? Fast i'll take the other side of it. Is there any world inWhich building one click? Checkout requires 450 people Okay, so that this is where you get into like the I don't understand how complicated it is to build a checkout solution And like interface with the payment rails and the payment gateways.

First, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from Acquired join Jason to talk portfolio construction (13:41), Roelof Botha succeeding Doug Leone at Sequoia (30:58), and to debate the takeaway from Fast's demise (52:22). Then Lon Harris from Inside Streaming joins to discuss the final two episodes of The Dropout (1:24:16)!

(00:00) Jason intros today’s show
(1:31) Catching up w/ the http://acquired.fm guys: David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert
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(13:41) Ben on investing in tech
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(22:46) How David thinks about his capital allocation
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(30:58) Talking about Doug Leone’s retirement
(52:22) Talking about the elephant in the room: Fast.co shutdown
(1:24:16) Talking with Lon Harris about the finale of “The Dropout”

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