AcquiredAcquired Live at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by J.P. Morgan)
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Intro and Welcome
- BGBen Gilbert
I can't believe the show sold out without us telling anyone what's happening.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
I know, right? [laughing] I hope, uh, I hope people aren't disappointed.
- BGBen Gilbert
Should we have told them at least one guest or, like, released a detail or?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Uh, I like it, you know? It's Broadway. It's theater. It's, uh, you're in for a show.
- BGBen Gilbert
Come see Acquired as a show.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yep, the suspense, the mystery! Which train are we taking again?
- BGBen Gilbert
Uh, I think it's the B.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
B. B, nice.
- BGBen Gilbert
New York really does, does feel like the center of everything.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
You know the famous New Yorker cartoon about how New Yorkers see the geography of America? [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
No, no, no.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
That it's, it's the island of Manhattan in the cartoon, and then there's the Hudson River, and then there's just California on the other side of the Hudson River. There's nothing in between. [laughing] We've got a little bit of time before the show. What do you think about a hot dog?
- BGBen Gilbert
I'd get a hot dog.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
All right, let's do it.
- BGBen Gilbert
Thank you!
- JDJamie Dimon
No problem.
- BGBen Gilbert
It is my favorite thing to do when I come to New York.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
It's the best.
- BGBen Gilbert
Spend some time in Central Park, and you just, like, walk around all day, pop out, get bagels. I was trying to think, what was the first listener live thing we ever did?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
I think it was the GeekWire conference in Seattle, and then we did the WeWork in San Francisco in the Tenderloin.
- BGBen Gilbert
It was about 100 people.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yep, the PA system went out halfway through.
- BGBen Gilbert
Someone ran to Best Buy, I think.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yep, picked up a new PA system. That was amazing. We've come a long way.
- BGBen Gilbert
We've come a long way. Should we do it?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Let's do it.
- SPSpeaker
[upbeat music] New York City, please put your hands together for Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal! [crowd cheering] Who got the truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you? Who got the truth now? [crowd cheering] Is it you, is it you, is it you? [crowd cheering]
- BGBen Gilbert
Hello, Acquired listeners. [crowd cheering]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Ooh!
- BGBen Gilbert
We are so, so excited to have you all here tonight for our live podcast episode recording. [crowd cheering] So all right, David, should we do it?
- 4:50 – 57:17
Jamie Dimon
- DRDavid Rosenthal
first conversation: there is really only one active CEO today here in America who transcends leading his company and really is also looked to as a leader for our country.
- BGBen Gilbert
His company is now worth around eight hundred billion dollars, and not only is it the most valuable company in New York, but it's the most valuable company east of the Mississippi.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
So for tonight's big conversation, please welcome the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, [crowd cheering] Jamie Dimon. [upbeat music] Jamie, it's great to have you here. [upbeat music] Right here. [crowd cheering]
- BGBen Gilbert
Well, this feels appropriate. [laughing]
- JDJamie Dimon
[laughing] You guys dressed up for me.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
[laughing] You dressed up for us, too. Thank you. Well, we know you're a big history buff, and we consider ourselves historians above all else. So, uh, what we'd like to do here tonight is walk through the twenty-year story with you of sort of how you turned JPMorgan Chase from a bank among many to the most systemically important financial institution in the world. Are you game?
- JDJamie Dimon
Sounds great. Thank you. Yeah. [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing] We want to start in 1998.... You and your mentor, Sandy Weill, have just spent the past thirteen years building the modern financial institution conglomerate. Really, the, the, the blueprint for what JPMorgan Chase is today, except it's not JP Morgan, it's Citigroup. And everybody on Wall Street and the entire world expects that you are going to be named CEO of Citigroup in short order.
- BGBen Gilbert
This is 1998?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
1998. This is not what happens. Instead, you get fired, and you have to restart your whole career, everything, your whole life from scratch.
- BGBen Gilbert
Sorry to start here, by the way. [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing] But, but, but before we get into what you do next, what was the model that you and Sandy built at Citigroup?
- SPSpeaker
Okay. First of all, I am thrilled to be here. I want to congratulate these guys for building the Acquired. [clapping] Uh, it's a, it's a great, intelligent addition to what we need to learn in society. And so I would say it wasn't quite the model, because if you look at what we did at Commercial Credit, Primerica, which then Travelers and Merge, we were a financial conglomerate. We bought lots of companies and lots of different businesses. We fixed them up, we turned around, we made money, uh, and then we merged it with Citibank, which obviously was a huge bank. And, uh, you know, my view is I was-- we should skinny it down and kind of shed the parts that aren't that important to the rest of the company and keep the things that strategically belong together, together. It was one of my small disagreements with Sandy about the future of the company. And so, um, but it was big. It was making a lot of money. It was quite successful at the time, uh, and then I got fired. [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
So, so, so how are you feeling in that moment?
- SPSpeaker
When I got fired?
- BGBen Gilbert
Yeah, that moment.
- SPSpeaker
Well, you know, my wife is here, and I was hosting a hundred people, uh, recruiter-- recruiting kids in my apartment in New York City, same apartment I have now, and, uh, they called me. We have a management meeting Sunday at four PM that night, and Sandy and John Reed called me up and said: "Can you come a little early? We've got a bunch of stuff to talk about." I was the president and chief operating officer. I drove... I said, "I can't." They said, "Well, it's really important." So I drove up there, uh, and I sat down in the room with Sandy and John, and they said they want to make a few changes, and there are three of them. And they said, "We-- One, one, we want to make this person in charge of that." I said, "Okay, well, that didn't make sense to me." The second one, they wanted to make someone in charge of the global investment bank, which I was running. I thought it was another stupid decision. And the third is they said: "And we want you to resign." And I said: "Okay," because, you know, at that moment, I knew it was all arranged. The boards had voted, the press release was written, the management team was coming up. So I waited, uh, you know, for the management team to come up. I wished them the best. I said, "You guys have a chance to build one of the great companies." Uh, they all thanked me. Uh, they-- Sandy said, "You want to do the press with me?" I said, "Yeah, but I'll do it from home." Uh, so I went home, went to see my kids. They were like-- One of my daughters is here, too. They were, like, twelve, fourteen, twelve, and ten. And I walk in the front door, and, uh, I tell them, you know, I, I was fired. And the youngest one says, "Daddy, uh, do we have to sleep on the streets?" [laughing] I said, "No, no, we're, we're okay." And the middle one, who's always obsessed with college for some reason: "Can I still go to college?" I said, "Yeah." And the one who is here, is the oldest one, said, "Great, since you don't need it, can I have your cell phone?" [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
[laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- SPSpeaker
And then that night, about fifty people came over. All the same people I just met, all the management team, bringing whiskey, and it was like having been at your own wake. And there's one really tall guy who came in, a very good friend of mine, and he looks, uh... And my, my daughter looks up and says: "Who are you?" He says, "I used-- I work for your daddy." And she says, "Not anymore you don't." [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing] Oh!
- SPSpeaker
And, uh, that was it. I was okay. You know, I was like, I tell people, "It was my net worth, not my self-worth, that was involved."
- BGBen Gilbert
And for anyone who doesn't sort of already know Jamie's story, you were the rising star. I mean, you were... Citi was the biggest bank. You were the heir apparent. I mean, this is, this was, like, unfathomable, and for you to take it this gracefully, uh, you know, it says a lot. So you're sort of wandering in the woods, as I best I can kind of reconstruct it, for about eighteen months. Is that right? Figuring out what's next.
- SPSpeaker
Yeah. I... You know, it took me a while to ex-exit and sign agreements and get out. They were kind of mean. Uh, but, and then I step in office, and it was late. I-- we went for a nice long vacation and stuff like that. Uh, when I got back in September, so that was six months later, I went to my... I started going to work. I had nothing to do, but I went from, you know, to nine to five and started calling people and thinking about what I'm gonna do. It was in the Seagram Building-
- BGBen Gilbert
Yeah
- SPSpeaker
... so I'd go for lunch, uh, downstairs every day. And I, and I-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
At the Four Seasons.
- SPSpeaker
At the Four Seasons. And I explored everything. Started my own merchant bank. I could have retired, just teaching, uh, just investing, but I was forty-two.
- BGBen Gilbert
And you, you took a call about running Amazon, didn't you?
- 57:17 – 58:30
Intermission
- SPSpeaker
Who got the truth? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Who got the truth now? Hmm. Is it you? Is it you? Is it you?
- SPSpeaker
Only ServiceNow connects every corner of your business, putting AI to work for people.
- JDJamie Dimon
[scoffs] Every corner?
- SPSpeaker
Every corner, Nick. [upbeat music] So Kate in HR... Hey, Kate ... can focus on people, not processes. Patty in IT is using AI agents to deal with the small stuff, so she can work on the big stuff. AI helps Jim solve customer problems before they're problems.
- JDJamie Dimon
Oh, so we all work better together.
- SPSpeaker
My work here is done.
- SPSpeaker
Excuse me, which way back?
- SPSpeaker
I started this brand because I was tired of being told "no," "no" to my dreams. [upbeat music]
- SPSpeaker
So I didn't have any design experience. I didn't have any business experience, but I really had this sort of belief.
- SPSpeaker
Running a business is really challenging, but I love it. [upbeat music]
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
[cuckoo bird sound] This is so wild that I actually, from a dream, started a business. Whoo!
- SPSpeaker
We're Cheekbone Beauty.
- BGBen Gilbert
This is Super Ceramics.
- SPSpeaker
We're Finisterre.
- SPSpeaker
We're Eastside Golf, and we're powered by Shopify.
- 58:30 – 1:00:36
Andrew Ross Sorkin
- SPSpeaker
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. [audience cheering] I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin, and this is a late-night edition of DealBook meets Squawk Box meets Acquired. Please welcome back to the stage, Ben and David. [audience cheering] Gentlemen. [upbeat music]
- SPSpeaker
Uh, Andrew,
- BGBen Gilbert
Hello.
- SPSpeaker
Hello, hello.
- BGBen Gilbert
Uh, it's so great that you're here. We're, we're glad to have you here, but why are you here?
- SPSpeaker
Yeah, well-
- SPSpeaker
We've, we've got this whole act two-
- SPSpeaker
I'm at the desk here. I'm used to being behind the desk.
- BGBen Gilbert
But we've got this, like, late-night talk show with iconic New York company CEOs.
- SPSpeaker
Right.
- BGBen Gilbert
Like, we're gonna be at the desk.
- SPSpeaker
Yeah. I had heard that you might be doing something with The New York Times, and I grew up there, you know. And so I just wanted to help you with, you know, notes, questions, research, whatever you were, you were working on.
- BGBen Gilbert
Yeah, I think-
- SPSpeaker
That's why I, I, I sat down.
- BGBen Gilbert
No, no, I, I, I mean, I think we, we got it. Uh, we, we did-
- SPSpeaker
We, we did a whole three-hour episode a few years ago about The New York Times. You don't, you don't need me that- you're-
- BGBen Gilbert
But I do really appreciate you coming, though. I mean, it means a lot.
- SPSpeaker
Okay, if you know so much, can we just do a little quiz?
- BGBen Gilbert
Uh, yeah, let's do a little quiz.
- SPSpeaker
A little New York quiz. [audience cheering] Uh, we'll have everybody participate. Here's a big question for you. Uh, what year was The New York Times founded? Do you know this?
- SPSpeaker
1851.
- SPSpeaker
Bingo. Bingo, bingo.
- SPSpeaker
It's top of mind.
- SPSpeaker
Okay, that's one. Question two: Who once defended The New York Times building from the rooftop with a gun?
- BGBen Gilbert
Yeah, Adolph Ochs.
- SPSpeaker
Nope. Nope, nope, no, nope. That was the original co-founder of the paper, Henry Raymond, but Ochs gets you style points. He bought the paper, by the way, from Raymond.
- SPSpeaker
Mm-hmm.
- SPSpeaker
Okay, this one, I wonder if this whole room is gonna know this one. Uh, what iconic New York location is named after The New York Times?
- SPSpeaker
Oh, Times Square. Of course. We have a billboard there.
- SPSpeaker
And then final question: Who is the most iconic CEO in The New York Times Company's modern history? And that person might be backstage
- 1:00:36 – 1:20:15
Meredith Kopit Levien
- SPSpeaker
as we speak.
- BGBen Gilbert
We know this one.
- SPSpeaker
Yes, we do. New York City, please welcome the CEO of The New York Times Company, Meredith Kopit Levien. [upbeat music] [audience cheering]
- JDJamie Dimon
Well, you don't go up. You gotta go over there.
- SPSpeaker
Come here.
- JDJamie Dimon
It's great to see you. [upbeat music]
- SPSpeaker
Meredith, great to meet you. [upbeat music]
- JDJamie Dimon
[laughing] That was fun.
- SPSpeaker
A huge thank you to Andrew Ross Sorkin, everybody.
- BGBen Gilbert
Give it up for Andrew Ross Sorkin! [audience cheering]
- JDJamie Dimon
I'll go anywhere Andrew Ross Sorkin goes.
- BGBen Gilbert
And he is out late for a taping at 6:00 AM on CNBC, so-
- SPSpeaker
Yeah, gotta go get some sleep.
- JDJamie Dimon
I think he is. I think he is.
- SPSpeaker
Well, Meredith-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
... It is great to have you here today. Uh, if there is one Acquired episode in the canon that is quintessentially, iconically New York, it's The New York Times Company, of course, and you guys, you're killing it. Uh, as we talked about in our episode, in 2008, the company was on the brink of death. You had sold your headquarters building, and here, in the few short years since then, you are the largest digital subscription newspaper in the entire world. You are the only standalone global newspaper company left, market cap of almost ten billion dollars, an all-time high.
- BGBen Gilbert
Publicly traded, anyway.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Publicly traded. Things are going great.
- BGBen Gilbert
Is that a, that's-
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Is that a question? [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
No.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Is that a... [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
So, so tonight, what we wanna do-
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I mean, keep going. Keep going.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll just... You just sit there, we'll just talk about you. [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
Uh, so tonight, what we wanna do, you know, it's been four years since our 2021 episode.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Yeah.
- BGBen Gilbert
We wanna ask you about a bunch of things that have happened since then, sort of as an update for the Acquired audience and the Acquired canon. So first, how is the subscription business going, and what has stayed the same, and what's changed since that big 2014 innovation report that changed everything?
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Yeah. Um, well, thanks for having me. I'm so delighted to be here, uh, with you guys. Um, it's going well, it's going well. I think where you left off, we had about five million subscribers in 2021. We are closing in now on twelve million, and the company is growing, as you described, it's growing revenue, it's growing profit. I think more importantly, it's growing in its journalistic impact, it's growing in its, its cultural impact, and we really look out and see sort of growth possibility in, in all directions. Um, every week now, fifty to a hundred million people are coming to the Times website and apps. Some twenty million or so people listen to our podcasts and read our newsletters. We've got, like, a hundred and fifty million people who've registered with us and counting. That number is still growing. Millions of people use it every day, so that all feels like, like real growth possibility. Um, you ask about 2014, I'd say that's the year where we set on the course to, to kind of a long-term strategy about being essential in people's lives. Back then, print was still the lion's share, it was still the dominant engine of the business, and we were, we were still doing great at the journalism, but I will say we were getting our clocks cleaned by digitally native upstart journalism companies at building a big audience for that journalism. So I think you asked me what's different now. I would say, one, print is well... the newspaper is well inside of thirty percent of the business. Um, we've got a huge, engaged audience, as I just described.
- BGBen Gilbert
Wait, the physical newspaper is still almost thirty percent of the business?
- 1:20:15 – 1:22:45
Acquired Wordle
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
wider.
- BGBen Gilbert
All right, so we have something that we've prepared, if you're open to it.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Is Sorkin coming back? [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
He, uh, I believe he's back in his seat. We can, we can check. Uh-
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I wonder who you have there.
- BGBen Gilbert
We, we start-
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I'm scared, Sorkin.
- BGBen Gilbert
We started this conversation talking about games.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Yeah.
- BGBen Gilbert
Uh, Wordle has taken an enormous amount of my time.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Good!
- BGBen Gilbert
We would like to take some of your time. Listeners, we asked the team at The New York Times to create a custom Wordle themed around something specific to Acquired. Are you game?
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I'm game. [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing] [audience clapping]
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I think, I think... I brought my glasses. I didn't know if it would be a big screen.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
I, I think this is the first live Wordle from Radio City Music Hall.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Yeah, and I do want to say, I would have rather played Connections. [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
[laughing]
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
I'm so much better and faster at it. So much better. I'm not very good at Wordle. My mom smokes me on it-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
-every time I play.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Well, we'll give you a hint to get started. The word is very deeply related to a canonical Acquired episode.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
Okay. All right.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
In, in other words, whatever your favorite starter word is a good place to start.
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
And can they see what I'm doing?
- BGBen Gilbert
I think so. I mean-
- 1:22:45 – 1:25:20
Trivia with the Audience
- MLMeredith Kopit Levien
[upbeat music]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
That was fun.
- BGBen Gilbert
It's great to see Meredith tonight.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
It was. It was also really great of The New York Times Company to make a Wordle for us. Great to get some Acquired trivia in there.
- BGBen Gilbert
So speaking of Acquired trivia, before we bring out our next guest, we wanna play a little, uh, game of our own here with some audience participation.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Oh. [audience cheering] So we have a question for all of you here tonight. See if we can, we can stump folks in the audience. What is the most listened to episode in Acquired's history? In our ten-year history, which episode was the most listened?
- BGBen Gilbert
Feel free to shout out your answer. [audience shouting]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Oh.
- BGBen Gilbert
Great.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Uh-
- BGBen Gilbert
I'm looking for someone I know. Is that, is that Christina Cacioppo?
- SPSpeaker
Hi, Ben. Hi, David.
- BGBen Gilbert
Hey, Christina.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Christina, great to see you.
- SPSpeaker
Great to see you.
- BGBen Gilbert
For anyone who doesn't know, Christina is the, uh, co-founder of Vanta, and I think a nine-year listener of Acquired?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yeah. OG, thank you. [audience clapping]
- SPSpeaker
I am.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
All right, Christina, what's your guess?
- SPSpeaker
See if I can remember my stripes. Um, is it the Hermès episode?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Ooh, that is a very good guess. Definitely up there, but it is not currently in the number one spot.
- BGBen Gilbert
I mean, I'm hearing whispers back there.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Do we have, do we have other folks who might wanna guess?
- BGBen Gilbert
Let's see. [audience shouting] There's a hand. Is that Ben Clymer?
- SPSpeaker
Hey, guys.
- BGBen Gilbert
Hey, Ben, good to see you!
- DRDavid Rosenthal
How are you, Ben?
- SPSpeaker
You too, guys. Happy to be here.
- BGBen Gilbert
All right, so Ben, for anyone who doesn't, who doesn't know, was indispensable on the Rolex episode. Uh, he's the founder of HODINKEE. He's, like, a world expert on watches. Good to see you, Ben. [audience clapping]
- SPSpeaker
Thank you, guys. Thank you. Um, so it's, it's, it's gotta be Rolex, right? [audience laughing]
- 1:25:20 – 1:56:32
Barry Diller
- BGBen Gilbert
[audience cheering]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Oh. We'll ask the same question next year, and, you know, we'll see. [laughing]
- JDJamie Dimon
[laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
All right, our final guest for the evening is a CEO who, despite us having not yet covered his current company on Acquired, I think over the course of his over sixty-year career, has led more companies in and around the Acquired universe than just about any other human being in history. We've got-
- BGBen Gilbert
Fox-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Fox
- BGBen Gilbert
... ABC, Paramount, Expedia-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yep.
- BGBen Gilbert
Tinder and Match.com-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yep
- BGBen Gilbert
QVC, and the Home Shopping Network.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Ticketmaster.
- BGBen Gilbert
Ticketmaster. I mean, this list is insane.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
We could go on and on. He's also one of New York's most legendary citizens, who, along with his wife, Diane von Furstenberg, has given so much to this city, including the High Line and, most recently, the Little Island. Please welcome the chairman of IAC, the one and only Barry Diller. [audience cheering] [upbeat music]
- JDJamie Dimon
Welcome, Barry.
- BDBarry Diller
Thank you.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Barry, great to see you. [upbeat music] Want a tip? [upbeat music] Barry-
- BDBarry Diller
Why did she get a pillow and I don't?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
She asked for one.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
She asked for one.
- BDBarry Diller
Well, okay.
- BGBen Gilbert
Do you want one?
- BDBarry Diller
It'll be on my rider next time. [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
[laughing] I think your rider was water.
- BDBarry Diller
Yeah, that's it.
- BGBen Gilbert
It's a pretty simple-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
You, uh, you drove yourself here tonight, is that correct?
- BDBarry Diller
Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I did.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Wow! I-
- 1:56:32 – 1:58:47
Closing, band, and curtain call
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Thank you so much. Well, that was a great way to end the night.
- BGBen Gilbert
What a night, David.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
What a night it was. Well, everyone, when we started Acquired 10 years ago, if you told us we would be playing Radio City Music Hall, I don't think in our wildest, wildest dreams we could've dreamed this big.
- BGBen Gilbert
No, it was a tech podcast with two-
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yeah! [cheering]
- BGBen Gilbert
Yeah, come on.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
This has been amazing.
- BGBen Gilbert
So thank you so much to all of you for coming tonight and to listening to our podcast over the years. It means so much. Thank you so much to Jamie Dimon, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Meredith Kopit Levien, and Barry Diller. [clapping]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Mm.
- BGBen Gilbert
Thanks also to our audience participants, [clapping] Christina Cacioppo, Ben Clymer, Howard Schultz, and surprisingly, Jamie Dimon again. [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
[laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
Thank you to our host, JP Morgan, to Hermes for dressing us.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
And most importantly, thank you to the many, many, many people on the JP Morgan team who gave their days, nights, weekends for this. Thank you to our production crew. [clapping] There are hundreds of people who put on tonight for everyone. Come on out. [upbeat jazz music]
- JDJamie Dimon
One.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
One.
- JDJamie Dimon
Two.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Three.
- JDJamie Dimon
And... Thank you to the lights and sound!
- BGBen Gilbert
Thank you, Mike Taylor! [clapping]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
And most, most importantly, thank you, Mike Taylor. Take a bow, Mike! [upbeat jazz music]
- 1:58:47 – 1:59:41
Post-Credits Sequence
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Dude.
- BGBen Gilbert
We did it.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
We did it.
- BGBen Gilbert
What's your line of the night?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Barry Diller saying, "It was all me." [laughing]
- BGBen Gilbert
[laughing] Yes. Or, or Jamie spoiling that Howard was here.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- BGBen Gilbert
We had this whole thing planned, and he's like, "I think Howard Schultz is here."
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Right.
- BGBen Gilbert
And Andrew Ross Sorkin. No surprises.
- JDJamie Dimon
Great show, guys.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
I, I can't believe-
- BGBen Gilbert
Thanks so much, man.
- JDJamie Dimon
Thank you.
- BGBen Gilbert
I really appreciate it.
- JDJamie Dimon
Barry Diller's special.
- BGBen Gilbert
Oh, thanks.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
So great.
- BGBen Gilbert
Thanks.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
I can't believe we just played Radio City. Man-
- BGBen Gilbert
It's surreal.
- DRDavid Rosenthal
The world is a wonderful place.
- BGBen Gilbert
After-party?
- DRDavid Rosenthal
Let's do it.
- BGBen Gilbert
So is Jamie Dimon gonna run for president? [laughing]
- DRDavid Rosenthal
We'll see.
Episode duration: 1:59:41
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