This Week in Startups: Portfolio construction, Sequoia's transition & Fast with Acquired.FM + The Dropout: This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris | E1429

First, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from Acquired join Jason to talk portfolio construction (13:41), Roelof Botha succeeding Doug Leone at Sequoia (30:58), and to debate the takeaway from Fast's demise (52:22). Then Lon Harris from Inside Streaming joins to discuss the final two episodes of The Dropout (1:24:16)!

(00:00) Jason intros today’s show

(1:31) Catching up w/ the http://acquired.fm guys: David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert

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(13:41) Ben on investing in tech

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(22:46) How David thinks about his capital allocation

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(30:58) Talking about Doug Leone’s retirement

(52:22) Talking about the elephant in the room: Fast.co shutdown

(1:24:16) Talking with Lon Harris about the finale of “The Dropout”

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