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It's funny, when we picked this episode, I was like, Oh, this is gonna be pretty down the middle and easy and then of course as we get into the research, as always, it's like oh nope, big story here. Nope. There's always a story. Who got the truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you Who got No.

Is it you, is it you, is it you? Down. Straight. Another story on the way Welcome to Season 13, Episode 4 of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Resenthal. And we are your hosts. Today we tell the story of an absolutely incredible system. You can show up anywhere in the entire world with a piece of plastic and transact for anything you want in any currency.

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