Startups Need a Central Hub to Store Information

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Startups need a central hub to store information and collaborate on work now more than ever That's because we're all living in this crazy remote world. The one place is now notion Documents projects all that stuff it kind of goes in the same place on what you can consider a wiki When we went fully remote in march of 2020 notion became our internal knowledge bank We even use it for external purposes You know like when we did this series on this we can start up called the start up checklist Well, we just put it at this week and start ups dot com slash checklist And that is all hosted on notion on notion every team from engineering to sales can work together seamlessly with 500 integrated apps including things like

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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