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This is this is the Q line. This is a quote from CoinDaddy. Right now, all our entertainers come from outside crypto culture. Not inside crypto. We've got to change that, he said. Oh my God. What a mission to be on. What a mission. Welcome to Season 8, Episode 1 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 of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture capital firm in Seattle. And I'm David Rosenthal, and I am an angel investor and advisor to startups based in San Francisco.

And we are your hosts. After close to a hundred and fifty episodes over the last five and a half years This will be the first one covering something that is not a company. And while today's topic is nowhere near a corporation and is often thought of as quite the opposite. it has had a better investment return over the last decade than any

Including including Apple. Including Domino's Pizza and even including Tesla. Oh so great. We're gonna have to talk about a little bit of a little bit of pizza as we go along here.

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