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I have to say your interview with doug is is great You're you're starting, you know on third base, but like you did That was so good. I got that sense of history when I was talking to him and I also got the sense since we've known each other and he's mentored me to a bit to a certain extent which people don't know about. And uh, I mean obviously the last 12 months In both the us and and China has I imagine changed a lot uh on that but um, but they death This was huge. It's kind of like this is like the smoke coming out of the vatican moment. Is it a big deal? Uh,

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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