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Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

This Week in Startups

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How to Do Less and Focus on Other Things

"I want to do less and put more wood behind less arrows, right? Arrows so I can focus on other things," he says. "We renegotiate some of those deals to basically say like, we're going to give you obviously the same number of episodes, but they're just going to happen." The show has been sold out for 10 years; at its peak it was selling out in six months. It took two months to prepare that four-hour episode about Nintendo's 130 year old story told over four hours.

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