All right, two episodes in a row from the hotel room. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs in our venture fund PSL Ventures.

And I'm David Rosenthal and I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco.

And we are your hosts.

This episode is something that David and I have been thinking about for a long time.

Yes, in fact, it is called the acquired playbook and it is basically what we've learned from doing acquired.

Like people often ask us the question, okay, cool.

You guys have analyzed like 200 companies and spent an ungodly amount of hours doing that.

Like what are the takeaways?

This episode is the takeaways.

It was back in like 2018.

I want to say that we had a major book publisher come to us and be like, Hey,

would you want to do a book out acquired?

And this was the idea we had in that we were just like, maybe at some point,

let's just keep doing episodes instead.

But maybe at some point, so consider this the first draft.

We don't know if this talk was good yet.

We are in our hotel rooms at Capitol Camp and we are about to go on stage and give it.

So this is sort of fun.

This is the first time we've ever recorded one of these before doing the episode itself.

Now is a great time to thank our new friend of the show, one password.

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