Welcome to an extremely special episode of the TechMeme Ride Home Experience.

I'm Brian McCullough, as always. And my co-host, as always, Chris Messina is here. Chris.

Howdy, howdy? Glad to be here. I'm very excited to be part of this World Cup of Entrepreneurs.

That's right.

This is something we've never done before.

I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

The whole process thus far has been a lot of fun.

But we are going to figure out who the Ney Plus Ultra entrepreneur of, say, the last 30 years is.

And to help us do that, we have The Boys from the Acquired Podcast.

And I'll let them introduce themselves individually.

Ben, you go first.

Brian, thanks for having us. Feels like we've got the super group of podcasters here.

So excited to be a part of it.

Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Gilbert.

I am the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture fund in Seattle,

and the less dulcet tone half of the acquired podcastired podcast co-hosted by my co-host David.

First in our hearts. First in our hearts.

David over to you. I'm David Rosenthal. I am the more dulcet half of the Acquired podcast, I guess.

Thank you, Ben. I'll use that from now on. I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco,

and yeah, thank you. Thank you guys for having us on here. This is going to be so much fun.

Anybody who listens to Acquired knows that we do like insane amounts of preparation and like

everything is scripted to the like tea and like,

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