Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with two of the most talented and respected people in Hollywood — Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — to talk about the process of adapting Mike Issac’s story of Uber, “Super Pumped”, into their new Showtime series. To say this was a thrill for us is a MASSIVE understatement. Huge thank yous to Brian, Joe and Showtime for making it happen!

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Links:

Super Pumped (the series): https://www.sho.com/super-pumped
Super Pumped (the book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PZ2B85Y/

Carve Outs:

Joe performing Katy Perry in the style of The Cure on Jimmy Fallon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lGEZOOHwI
Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker companion podcast: https://www.pushkin.fm/show/against-the-rules-with-michael-lewis/
Stevie Van Zandt’s Unrequited Infatuations: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R56XNMQ/
Your Undivided Attention: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/a-problem-well-stated-is-half-solved
Jakob Dylan on The Moment: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xNbG6XBjoVLDvpOUbZSIr?si=engSyJ9IQlePpqDOw7rSjw
Joe’s Don Jon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/
HitRecord: https://hitrecord.org

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0:00.0	I think you both know enough about a choir that I don't need to go into the general stick and spiel right on I love it
0:07.6	I'm so honored that you guys have listened. It makes my day. Thank you. That's why we said yes
0:30.0	Welcome to this special episode of Acquired the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them
0:38.7	I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund PSL ventures
0:45.5	And I'm David Rosenthal and I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco
0:50.9	And we are your hosts
0:54.1	David, I feel like today is the natural culmination of a journey
0:57.6	We started in May of 2019 when we did our uber episode on the day of their IPO
1:03.3	God, it feels like another lifetime ago, but it was only two and a half years ago
1:06.4	Well for listeners who don't know the events of you know uber leading all the way up through their IPO and the
1:13.1	Implosion around that and the just insane
1:16.8	Story that all of that was is coming out as a showtime series on
1:22.8	February 27th called super pumped I have to say it's a little bit surreal the world that we live in a venture in startups as we will talk about on this episode
1:32.5	becoming
1:33.7	Part of entertainment and pop culture like that and even more surreal that this is made by
1:39.1	Brian Coppelman and Joe Gordon Levitt
1:42.2	There's no world that I would have imagined we would find ourselves here
1:46.0	No, and on top of that there is no world that I would have thought we would have found ourselves in where there are guests
1:51.8	on acquired to talk about it
1:53.7	And so we're ludicrously
1:55.7	Fortunate today for that to be the case and for those who don't know Brian is one of the three executive producers writers and showrunners for super pumped
2:04.7	You probably also know his work from billions and from rounders
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