Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we’re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn’t need stories of M&A and IPOs right now. But it does still need stories of great companies and great leaders. So we’re taking everything that we’ve put into Acquired - our format, our infrastructure, and the way we can reach all of you - and launching Adapting. Adapting is a series all about doing just that -- changing to fit what the world needs right now, not what it needed last week.

Our first episode starts on the front lines of change: the local restaurant industry. Mark Canlis joins us to discuss how the world-renowned Canlis restaurant in Seattle is adapting by simultaneously closing their 70 year old dining room service, and launching three brand new, no-contact concept restaurants in just one week to keep their staff employed and the city fed:

"Pretty quickly we realized that it would be just as risky to do nothing as it would to do something really radical. And if we were gonna live into our values, every once and awhile that’s really going to cost you something."

This conversation is an incredible inspiration to us all, and a reminder of the vast power of the human spirit during challenging times.

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0:00.0	It's kind of like the word pick six. I don't that just like happened a few years ago and now everybody says it watch now
0:06.2	They have like E spian it's like pick six pick six and when it doesn't happen they're like we could really use a pick six right now
0:11.5	Totally totally just no one said that ten years ago we could really use a pick six right now. Totally, totally, cool,
0:13.2	no one said that 10 years ago.
0:15.1	Get out. Welcome to season 6 episode 4 of acquired the podcast Ben I think you're on autopilot.
0:34.0	Yeah, sorry, muscle memory.
0:38.0	All right, listeners, we are coming to you in a time of enormous change and upheaval. The coronavirus has spread around the world, challenging
0:46.0	global health systems, bringing economies to their knees, and changing daily life for everyone,
0:51.7	seemingly overnight.
0:53.0	Given this, it just seems irresponsible to stay business as usual over here
0:58.0	and put on our normal acquired episodes for you all.
1:01.0	So we're changing acquired. For the first time ever we're taking a pause from normal
1:06.0	episodes. The world doesn't need acquired right now. People normally tune in to hear us
1:11.6	talk about the stories
1:12.8	behind great technology companies and what goes into building them.
1:16.6	But these aren't normal times.
1:18.4	What the world does need right now
1:20.4	is stories of great leaders and how they and their organizations are responding to what
1:24.4	might be the biggest moment of change we've ever seen.
1:27.6	So we're going to take everything that we've put into acquired over the years, our format,
1:32.0	our infrastructure, and the way we can reach all of you, and we're going to put our
1:36.6	full way behind this.
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