Welcome to an extremely special episode of the Tech Mem 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 the super group of podcasters here so

excited to 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 dulcetone half of the acquired

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 broadcast. 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 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

not like word for word scripted but we love doing stuff like this where we get to

just like pontificate without doing research. So thank you.

Well, and let me say that Ben and I were talking,

I think it was five years ago.

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