Yeah, I would say we're sorry to blow your cover, but it's sounding like that's pretty well blown as no longer the best kept secret in Silicon Valley.

I was going to say that the fact that is the best kept secret says something about my acuity is a good marketer.

Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund PSL Ventures.

And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.

And we are your hosts.

David and I had a realization we talk about seven powers on every single episode literally every single episode.

And in March of 2020, we actually interviewed Hamilton Helmer to talk about the framework, but we estimate that only about 2% ever actually heard that since it was an LP episode at the time.

So today to celebrate the LP feed going public, we are releasing the remastered version of that interview.

It's a little like getting in a time machine since that was the last recording we did before the pandemic hit, but every single lesson holds up and it is a treat to hear about the seven powers framework in Hamilton's own voice and to hear his story behind the book.

When we recorded this, well, hey, you're totally right, like all of Hamilton's work, it's just timeless, but you were going to fly down and we were going to do it at the strategy capital office Hamilton's fun that he manages in Los Altos.

And I drove down and was there. And then last minute you said, hey, this COVID thing. I'm a little worried about I don't feel comfortable getting on a plane right now.

And so you were on zoom.

I've never met Hamilton in person and you have twice three times, at least more than that, I think.

Yeah, we should do something with him in the early next year.

Maybe another reason to get this out to everybody now to get prepared for more coming in the new year.

For sure, listeners, if you like this episode and you want more, we also released a book club that we did with Hamilton from September, 2020 as a follow up.

And just like every other previous LP episode, those are now free and accessible in any podcast player just by searching acquired LP show.

This is a great time to tell you about one of our very favorite companies, Crusoe.

So Crusoe as listeners know by now is a clean compute cloud provider specifically built for AI workloads.

Nvidia is one of their major partners and literally Crusoe's data centers are nothing but racks and racks of a 100s and each 100s.

And because Crusoe's cloud is purpose built for AI and run on wasted stranded or clean energy, they can provide significantly better performance per dollar than traditional cloud providers.

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