Welcome back to another super special episode of the TechMeme Ride Home Experience.

We're going to do part two of our World Cup of Entrepreneurs, I don't know, a contest,

extravaganza, hashtag World Cup of Entrepreneurs.

These were all voted on by you, the listeners of the TechMeme Right Home podcast.

So that everyone knows people's voices.

Let me reintroduce my usual guest or no, co-host, Chris Messina, inventor of the hashtag, the West Coast business development

at Republic, right? Is that your death? Head of, head of business development at Republic. Head-muck-dy-muck.

Yep.

Republic. And we're joined by the co-hosts of the Acquired podcast. I went with Ben first last time. So, David, introduce yourself. Oh, out of order. Ben always introduces himself first on our shows. This is good. I'm going for, I'm going to really bask in this now. I'm David Rosenthal. I am one half of the Acquired duo. I'm an angel investor

based in San Francisco. And Brian, I was thinking earlier since you said contest or battle. I think

Thunderdome is the correct thing of what we're doing here.

Hey, everyone, Ben Gilbert, the other half of the Acquired Podcast,

and by day at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle.

Well, this is where the rubber meets the road, folks.

This is the quarterfinal round.

Everyone that is in this round has overcome a competitor.

Again, all of this voting happened over the last two weeks on Twitter,

voted on by the TechMeme Ride Home listening audience.

Our first matchup is going to be Reed Hastings of Netflix, who lost to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

And the winning percentage for Jeff Bezos was 77.9% to Reed Hastings 22.1%.

Now, again, we spoke last episode about how if we were going to do seeds,

obviously Jeff Bezos would have been one of the seeds.

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