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• My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.

  David Plotz

  Years, Alex, Venture

  Source: www.slate.com

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• People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you're raising $1 million, but if you're trying to raise $2.5 million it's kind of a weird amount.

  David Plotz

  People, Trying, Kind

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?

  David Plotz

  Running, Trying, Half

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, Meetings, Knows

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

  David Plotz

  New York, Successful, Media

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

  David Plotz

  Media, Atlas, Digital

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

  David Plotz

  Block

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three kids, and it's a pain. I'm away a lot and it's hard on her, but she's been very generous about it and my kids have been very good about it, too. It also allows me when I'm Washington to be more intent with them.

  David Plotz

  Pain, Kids, Wife

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.

  David Plotz

  Running, Thinking, Talking

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

  David Plotz

  Ideas, People, Just Being

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

  David Plotz

  Jobs, People, Boss

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.

  David Plotz

  Morning, Son, Weekend

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

  David Plotz

  Sleep, Son, Up Early

  Source: www.slate.com

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• А weekly column is really tough.

  David Plotz

  Tough, Columns

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

  David Plotz

  New York, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

  David Plotz

  New York, Writing, Demand

  Source: www.slate.com

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• That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.

  David Plotz

  Want, Finance, Boring

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

  David Plotz

  Political, Doe, Magazines

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I sound like an evangelist or something.

  David Plotz

  Sound, Evangelists

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

  David Plotz

  New York, People, Brooklyn

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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