The John Carrey Roost Story

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I felt like it captured how it must have felt for her where one moment she's still Interviews in top of the world and billionaire and genius elizabeth helms. Her own lawyer is like i'm leaving you can't afford to pay me anymore You know, we were never such a good observation about the dropout and how they did the storytelling which is It might actually they may have made the editorial decision that frauds Take a long time to be discovered. But then when there is a tipping point The plane falls from the sky, right? And this was the plane Like is soaring to all new heights and everybody's like there's something wrong with this plane There's something rattling it

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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