Ben Gilbert’s had the entrepreneurial bug since he was young, starting with building his high school website and developing apps in his college dorm room. Since then, Ben has worked at several incredible startups, become Co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, Co-host for popular venture capital podcast, Acquired, and was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. Ben attributes much of his success to always “having two careers at once” by working on side projects and being fueled by a sense of accomplishment. In this episode, Ben talks about his first app, SeizeTheDay, that was downloaded over a million times, the story of how Acquired came to be, if he invests in people or ideas and the entrepreneurs he admires outside of PSL. He also shares what growing up in the Midwest was like, what being an Eagle Scout taught him, his involvement with the Anti-Defamation League, and much more.

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