Benchmark Part II: The Dinner

I've spent a lot of time in in in in Europe and The dinners are about three hours, maybe three and a half hours long. That's unlike it. Yeah. And that's the whole point. Is that social connection is not something that's transaction. It's fluid. It it's fun. It's playful. And and so w the idea is people are coming out beaming, smiling after dinner.

As opposed to um You know, this sort of rigid structure of a typical dinner with an agenda. There is no agenda. Yeah, I don't have the agenda is to come together. Who got truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you Who got the truth now? Is it you, is it you, is it you? Me down!

Another story on the way Welcome to Season 11, Episode 5 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 and our venture fund, PSL Ventures. And I'm David Rosenthal, and I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco. Where We were.

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