ACQ2 by Acquired

Ben and David on My First Million


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Ben and David joined Sam and Shaan of "My First Million" to talk about scaling to a large podcast, the company they would like to own, the CEO's you don't want to compete against, and the 100+ year history of Nintendo. 

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Sponsors:

  • Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24

Links:

* Hampton

* Wait But Why

* Marques Brownlee

* Nintendo

* NVIDIA

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Show Notes:

(01:45) - Intro to Acquired

(10:00) - How to scale to a big podcast

(14:05) - How big do you have to be to be at the top of the business category?

(23:55) - What commonalities are there between weird companies?

(27:40) - How to tell a real from a fake contrarian

(34:45) - Nintendo

(37:45) - Which company would you most want to own?

(40:45) - Who would you least want to compete against?

(52:30) - Business ideas

(56:40) - Will you ever sell Acquired?

(58:20) - Best ways to make money as a podcast

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