The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

1. DRDavid Rosenthal0:00

   So how many interviews with Mark do you think you watched before tonight?

2. BGBen Gilbert0:04

   [chuckles] Oh, to prepare?

3. DRDavid Rosenthal0:06

   Yeah.

4. BGBen Gilbert0:06

   [chuckles] Uh, th- thirty to forty? Uh, the, the best ones are the '04 to '06 vintage, but they're all so different. It's almost like every three to four years is a new era that is markedly different from all the previous eras.

5. DRDavid Rosenthal0:21

   Totally. And, uh, I think we might have witnessed the beginning of a new era right in front of us on stage.

6. BGBen Gilbert0:27

   [chuckles] Oh, yes, absolutely.

7. DRDavid Rosenthal0:29

   All right, should we do this?

8. BGBen Gilbert0:31

   Let's do it.

9. SPSpeaker0:32

   Who Got the Truth? [upbeat music] Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Who got the truth now? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Sit me down, say it straight. Another story on the way. Who got the truth?

10. BGBen Gilbert0:49

    Welcome to the Fall 2024 season of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert.

11. DRDavid Rosenthal0:57

    I'm David Rosenthal.

12. BGBen Gilbert0:59

    And we are your hosts. Listeners, we have something very special for you today: our interview with Mark Zuckerberg from Acquired live at Chase Center.

13. DRDavid Rosenthal1:07

    Ooh!

14. BGBen Gilbert1:08

    Mark is the iconic founder CEO of our time, and this conversation was just too good to hold onto any longer, so we are getting it out quickly before we release the full video of the entire show.

15. DRDavid Rosenthal1:20

    Which, speaking of the full show, [chuckles] was utterly amazing. We had surprise appearances from Jensen Huang, Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, and of course, we had the one and only Mike Taylor, the artist who sings Who Got the Truth, performing live. It was incredible. We've got basically a whole film production that's now happening behind the scenes, with another ninety minutes of content beyond just this Mark interview. We should have that out in the next couple weeks, so stay tuned for that.

16. BGBen Gilbert1:49

    First, though, a huge thank you to our partners this season. You know our presenting partner, J.P. Morgan Payments.

17. DRDavid Rosenthal1:56

    And we are also pumped to have two more great returning sponsors this season: Statsig, the world's first product acceleration platform that thousands of companies, from OpenAI to Series A startups, rely on to ship fast, learn more, and make smart decisions. You can find out more about them at statsig.com/acquired.

18. BGBen Gilbert2:13

    Sounds a lot like Meta.

19. DRDavid Rosenthal2:15

    [chuckles]

20. BGBen Gilbert2:16

    And Crusoe, which is the world's best climate-aligned AI cloud and data center operator that is leading the industrial build-out of AI. Find out more about them at crusoe.ai/acquired. As always, come discuss this afterwards with us in the Slack, acquired.fm/slack. And if you wanna be notified when every new episode drops, sign up at acquired.fm/email.

21. DRDavid Rosenthal2:40

    All right, one more thing before the interview. We need to say a huge, huge thank you to the entire J.P. Morgan Payments team for securing the Chase Center [chuckles] for this, for orchestrating the entire evening. Our partnership this year has been absolutely incredible and gone, I think, way beyond what either of us ever could have imagined.

22. BGBen Gilbert3:02

    Yeah, for those who don't know about J.P. Morgan Payments, they empower businesses to accept money, hold money, send money, protect money from fraud, and gain unique insights from money flows to help your company grow.

23. DRDavid Rosenthal3:13

    Yep, and the payments business specifically, like most things at J.P. Morgan, is the largest and most trusted payments provider in the entire world. They move ten trillion dollars a day. That's almost twenty-five percent of all US dollar payment flows in the global economy. Pretty much every single company that we cover on Acquired works with J.P. Morgan Payments in some way. You can never outgrow them. They partner with startups and small companies like us, [chuckles] like you would be, Ben, all the way up to the largest enterprises in the Fortune 500.

24. BGBen Gilbert3:42

    Yeah, we've got more to share about their new payments products and technology this season, like the pay-by-face biometric payments that we saw live at Chase Center.

25. DRDavid Rosenthal3:49

    Yeah, that was super cool.

26. BGBen Gilbert3:51

    Yep, so that you can learn which may be the right fit to solve your payments challenges and grow your business.

27. DRDavid Rosenthal3:57

    The other thing we gotta say is, like, Ben and I really worked side by side all year with their incredible team to make this evening happen, and we really got to know them, Max, Umar, Dustin, Hannah, Vinnie, Nick, Amy, Carly, and so many others. It's like we were one team. You guys rock.

28. BGBen Gilbert4:13

    Yeah, for the first time, we actually got to experience what it would be like if Acquired was a large, world-class organization and not just, you know, our little team. And, uh, what happened at Chase Center is really the physical embodiment of that.

29. DRDavid Rosenthal4:26

    Thank you guys for being the best partners we could ever imagine, and a very special shout-out to Dustin Sedgwick, J.P. Morgan Payment CMO, who's a longtime listener of the show and a good friend of ours, and he's just been the driving force behind all of this. Without him, Chase Center wouldn't have happened. We're so grateful for our incredible relationship with you and all of J.P. Morgan.

30. BGBen Gilbert4:47

    Yep. So please enjoy our conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, and to take us in, the chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, Jamie Dimon.

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