Is Your Middle Name With a James?

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Rosen is a co-founder of kindergarten ventures, which he's proud to say I got my beakwad. Rosen this was my uh My college email address Were you literally a dj in college or did you just like the random last night? You're gonna hear my jacket coming off. This is one of the original hundred Roadster owners i'm gonna go to austin right after this for the tesla rodeo Um, so i'll see everybody there tonight,. but this is the original tesla logo for people who don't know That's what the key of the roadster looks like it's that little I don't know that is a triangle With the drum the

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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