David Perell

So a PR person emailed me, how did you pitch that piece to the journal? And I was just laughing like... We didn't, yeah. There's no way you could possibly anticipate something like this happening and then execute a PR strategy to try to make it happen. Maybe other people know differently, but I've never once seen that be the way that things like this happen. Well, let's see.

So a PR person emailed me, how did you pitch that piece to the journal? And I was just laughing like... We didn't, yeah. There's no way you could possibly anticipate something like this happening and then execute a PR strategy to try to make it happen. Maybe other people know differently, but I've never once seen that be the way that things like this happen. Well, let's see.

Things we wanted to do today, chat about the arena show. Oh, one other note on that. A few people have emailed us and said, my whole company is coming. We even had a parent email us and say, my 13-year-old wants to have his birthday party by bringing all of his friends to the live show, which is the coolest thing ever. Coolest thing ever. Crazy, that's real.

Things we wanted to do today, chat about the arena show. Oh, one other note on that. A few people have emailed us and said, my whole company is coming. We even had a parent email us and say, my 13-year-old wants to have his birthday party by bringing all of his friends to the live show, which is the coolest thing ever. Coolest thing ever. Crazy, that's real.

If you're interested in something like that too, email us hello at acquired.fm for big group ticket buys. And there's a special office that we can hook you up with that helps deal with that.

If you're interested in something like that too, email us hello at acquired.fm for big group ticket buys. And there's a special office that we can hook you up with that helps deal with that.

The other thing that we wanted to do, we've got one more sort of announcement on show structure and then carve-outs. So the show structure thing is, as you may have guessed or observed, the thing that makes Acquired episodes unique is the format of David and I...

The other thing that we wanted to do, we've got one more sort of announcement on show structure and then carve-outs. So the show structure thing is, as you may have guessed or observed, the thing that makes Acquired episodes unique is the format of David and I...

sitting down, doing the hundreds of hours of research, coming together with separate prepared minds, with separate understandings of the history and with separate beliefs about what made this business work, and then doing our four-hour format to tell the story and unpack why the business worked. And...

sitting down, doing the hundreds of hours of research, coming together with separate prepared minds, with separate understandings of the history and with separate beliefs about what made this business work, and then doing our four-hour format to tell the story and unpack why the business worked. And...

That's very different than an interview show where you have a great guest on where everybody knows their name and you interview them and then you say, so long, folks, and you sign off. There are many of those shows and there are many excellent, excellent of those shows. Occasionally, we do have the opportunity to interview someone like Jensen, like Charlie.

That's very different than an interview show where you have a great guest on where everybody knows their name and you interview them and then you say, so long, folks, and you sign off. There are many of those shows and there are many excellent, excellent of those shows. Occasionally, we do have the opportunity to interview someone like Jensen, like Charlie.

like Dara from Uber, where we have covered the business in the past, or perhaps someone like Howard Schultz is willing to spend the five, six hours with us that it takes to do our standard format with them present. But what we've basically done is we've decided that the main show, with few exceptions, is for doing our core four-hour format of David and I together.

like Dara from Uber, where we have covered the business in the past, or perhaps someone like Howard Schultz is willing to spend the five, six hours with us that it takes to do our standard format with them present. But what we've basically done is we've decided that the main show, with few exceptions, is for doing our core four-hour format of David and I together.

Occasionally, we will follow that up with an interview with the protagonist after we've had a chance to really do our thing. But that kind of leaves us with a whole bunch of opportunity to do great interviews, but just that are not quite acquired. And so ACQ2 has really become the place where we're doing all of that now.

Occasionally, we will follow that up with an interview with the protagonist after we've had a chance to really do our thing. But that kind of leaves us with a whole bunch of opportunity to do great interviews, but just that are not quite acquired. And so ACQ2 has really become the place where we're doing all of that now.

And so if you like interviews like the one we did with the Synopsys founder and the Synopsys CEO to kind of do a deep dive on the state of semis today, or the next one we have coming out as an interview with Joe Montana, who managed to shift from being one of the best football players of all time. many-time Super Bowl MVP. To a really excellent venture capitalist. To an exceptional investor, yes.

And so if you like interviews like the one we did with the Synopsys founder and the Synopsys CEO to kind of do a deep dive on the state of semis today, or the next one we have coming out as an interview with Joe Montana, who managed to shift from being one of the best football players of all time. many-time Super Bowl MVP. To a really excellent venture capitalist. To an exceptional investor, yes.

And we've got several other public company CEOs lined up that we're going to be doing on ACQ2 soon. So while Dave and I are taking some time to breathe, prep for the arena show, if you're feeling like you want to experience some more acquired and you've already gone through the back catalog, ACQ2 is the place to tune in for those as they come out.

And we've got several other public company CEOs lined up that we're going to be doing on ACQ2 soon. So while Dave and I are taking some time to breathe, prep for the arena show, if you're feeling like you want to experience some more acquired and you've already gone through the back catalog, ACQ2 is the place to tune in for those as they come out.