How to Build a Company Around a Campaign

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i had been running a start up in san francisco that our good friends at i g s p wo were an investor. And so i felt like, well, this is somewhat like a start up. I've never run for anything, and i don't know how politics works, but and i'll try to red out. So i honestly used a lot of the principles that i learned from them in terms of how to company build around how to build a campaign. If you have no team and no ability to get it out, you're not going to go anywhere.

This episode is a first for Acquired: we’re joined by a sitting US Congressman (from Ben’s home state of Ohio!), Republican House Representative Anthony Gonzalez. Anthony serves on the House Financial Services Committee and is deeply involved in crypto and Web3 regulation, as well as on the Climate and Science, Space & Technology Committee where he oversees NASA among many other agencies. His also has an absolutely incredible story — his family immigrated from Cuba to Ohio, he played in the NFL, he was COO of an Investment Group of Santa Barbara backed startup, and he was one of a small number of Republican congresspeople who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the events January 6th.

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