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Hey everybody welcome to this week in startups the

podcast that we've been doing for over a decade and over 11 hundred

episodes and we talk on this podcast about technology, startups, investing in

startups, but we don't delve too much into public equities because, well, I've never been a

public equity guy, but lo and behold ten years later I've got two

companies three companies that have come public all these spacks are happening and I find

myself drawn to maybe understanding the public markets a little bit better than I do as a

private market investor and a friend of mine said hey you have to read this book this guy has a lot of common thoughts with you do about capitalism and

maybe problem solving. And I read this book. It's a tiny little book. There it is. It's not that thick. How many pages

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