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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:36:32 Ben Gilbert But before we do that, this is the perfect time for another one of our favorite companies and longtime acquired partners, Pilot.com.
- ▶ 2:36:42 David Rosenthal Pilot handles all of your company's accounting, tax, and bookkeeping needs, and is by far the largest startup-focused accounting firm in the entire U.S.
- ▶ 2:37:23 Ben Gilbert So back to Pilot, and speaking of Bill, we talk all the time on Acquired about one of his Seattle neighbors, Jeff Bezos, and the AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes your beer taste better.
- ▶ 2:37:57 David Rosenthal So, enter Pilot.
- ▶ 2:37:59 David Rosenthal Pilot both sets up and operates your company's entire financial stack.
- ▶ 2:38:25 Ben Gilbert And when you say thousands of startups, Pilot has done this for OpenAI, Airtable, Scale, as well as large e-commerce and other companies.
- ▶ 2:38:39 Ben Gilbert So if your company wants to start focusing on what makes your beer taste better, go to pilot.com slash acquired, and tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 2:38:47 Ben Gilbert Thank you to Pilot.
- ▶ 4:43:58 Ben Gilbert First, of course, is our sponsors, JPMorgan Payments, ServiceNow, and Pilot.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:38 Ben Gilbert All right, listeners, this is the perfect time to talk about another one of our favorite companies and longtime acquired partners, Pilot.com.
- ▶ 2:08:46 Ben Gilbert For startups and growth companies of all kinds, Pilot handles all of your company's accounting, tax, and bookkeeping needs, and in fact, now is by far the largest startup-focused accounting firm in the entire U.S.
- ▶ 2:10:00 Ben Gilbert So enter Pilot.
- ▶ 2:10:01 Ben Gilbert Pilot both sets up and operates your entire company's financial stack.
- ▶ 2:10:14 Ben Gilbert And they've been doing this now for years across thousands of startups from Silicon Valley and everywhere else.
- ▶ 2:10:27 David Rosenthal Yep, and when you say thousands of companies Pilot does this for, these are now companies like OpenAI, Airtable, and Scale, as well as large e-commerce and other companies.
- ▶ 2:10:36 David Rosenthal So it's not just that they have experience across startups, they can also keep working with you as you scale to the growth phase and beyond.
- ▶ 2:10:50 David Rosenthal Go on over to pilot.com slash acquired and tell them that Ben and David sent you.
- ▶ 2:10:55 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Pilot.
- ▶ 3:15:11 Ben Gilbert So, uh, with that, a huge thank you to our sponsors, JPMorgan Payments, ServiceNow, and Pilot.com.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31:51 Ben Gilbert Well, listeners, this is a great moment for our final installment of this season of Founder Tips from Wasim Dahir, the CEO of Pilot.com.
- ▶ 2:32:00 Ben Gilbert Pilot, of course, is the premier accounting and bookkeeping service for startups and growth tech companies, and here's Wasim now.
- ▶ 2:34:09 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Pilot, the largest startup-focused accounting firm in America, providing finance, accounting, bookkeeping, and tax prep to companies of all sizes.
- ▶ 2:34:18 David Rosenthal They are now doing OpenAI, Airtable, Scale.
- ▶ 2:34:21 David Rosenthal Like, these are huge companies that Pilot is powering, their accounting and bookkeeping.
- ▶ 2:34:26 Ben Gilbert You can click the link in the show notes or go to pilot.com slash acquired to get 20% off your finance, accounting, and tax prep needs for your first six months.
- ▶ 3:20:52 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our thanks to Vanta, the best way to become compliant and stay compliant, to Pilot.com, the best way for tech companies to handle tax, bookkeeping, and accounting, and Tiny, truly the buyer of choice for wonderful…
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:16 Ben Gilbert This is a great time to talk about our third favorite company of the episode, Pilot.com, and as you know, this season, we are joined by Wasim Dahir, CEO of Pilot, for his tips he has for founders after starting three different companies.
- ▶ 1:48:24 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Pilot, the largest startup-focused accounting firm in America.
- ▶ 1:48:28 Ben Gilbert You can click the link in the show notes or go to pilot.com slash acquired to get 20% off your finance, accounting, and tax prep needs for your first six months, and frankly, everyone should do this.
- ▶ 1:48:40 Ben Gilbert Pilot has gotten extremely good at it.
- ▶ 1:48:54 David Rosenthal Thank you, Pilot.
- ▶ 1:48:56 David Rosenthal It's funny to be talking about Pilot as we're talking about aircraft.
- ▶ 1:49:00 David Rosenthal Well, here now we're talking about Pilot-less aircraft, but which is what you should be because you should use Pilot, you should outsource all of your finance and accounting to Pilot.
- ▶ 3:36:35 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Pilot, Tiny, and Vanta.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:44 David Rosenthal We have one of our very favorite longtime members of the acquired family, Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:01:50 David Rosenthal Pilot sets up and operates the entire financial stack for startups and growing companies.
- ▶ 1:02:20 David Rosenthal Pilot is a much better decision.
- ▶ 1:02:22 David Rosenthal They take literally all the headache of finance and accounting off of your plate as a founder and a startup team,
- ▶ 1:02:29 David Rosenthal And they provide you with their own team of experts, actual financial accounting experts, and technology to set up your financial infrastructure and run it right.
- ▶ 1:02:38 Ben Gilbert Now, we've talked about this a lot on this show, but it really is worth talking about this defining characteristic of Pilot.
- ▶ 1:02:44 Ben Gilbert They integrate with the APIs of all the modern startup-grade platforms like Stripe and Brex, Gusto, Shopify, Square, etc.
- ▶ 1:02:55 Ben Gilbert They know how to make that work seamlessly with your company's books, so you can always use the best tools available to you and trust that your accounting bookkeeping provider will have the ability to keep up.
- ▶ 1:03:07 Ben Gilbert Stripe itself is an investor in the company alongside Sequoia Index and Bezos Expeditions.
- ▶ 1:03:26 Ben Gilbert Head on over to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 1:03:31 Ben Gilbert Thanks to the pilot co-founders, Wasim, Jessica, and Jeff for providing this awesome 20% discount for the first six months of service if you go to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 1:03:41 Ben Gilbert Thanks, pilot.
- ▶ 1:03:42 David Rosenthal Thank you, pilot.
- ▶ 1:54:29 Ben Gilbert With that, thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, and Tiny.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 2:52:15 Ben Gilbert It is our good friends at Pilot.
- ▶ 2:52:18 David Rosenthal Well, Pilot, as we've talked about for years now on Acquired, we just love Pilot.
- ▶ 2:52:24 David Rosenthal They set up and operate the entire financial stack that you need as a startup and growing company.
- ▶ 2:53:06 Ben Gilbert So enter Pilot.
- ▶ 2:53:07 Ben Gilbert They take all the headache of finance and accounting off your plate as a founder.
- ▶ 2:53:11 Ben Gilbert They provide you a team of experts and technology to set up all the financial infrastructure to do it right.
- ▶ 2:53:17 Ben Gilbert They integrate with APIs, as you know, from modern tools like Stripe and Brex and Gusto and Shopify and Square.
- ▶ 2:53:24 Ben Gilbert So they know how to make all of that seamlessly work with your product, and also, because this is their world, as more innovative fintech products come out that you will want to use in your business, they will probably be the first people…
- ▶ 2:54:01 Ben Gilbert Yes, and thanks to our friends at Pilot, the co-founders Wasim, Jessica, and Jeff.
- ▶ 2:54:11 Ben Gilbert So thanks so much to our friends at Pilot.
- ▶ 2:54:14 David Rosenthal Thank you, Pilot.
- ▶ 3:30:32 Ben Gilbert Well, with that, our thanks to Fundrise and Pilot.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:28 David Rosenthal Brex, of course, is a fantastic provider of modern corporate cards and expense software in over a hundred countries, trusted by big companies we've talked about on the show, like DoorDash and Pilot, and of course, recent LP show guest,…
- ▶ 2:05:16 David Rosenthal For our next sponsor of this episode, we have one of our very, very favorite companies in the acquired family, pilot.com.
- ▶ 2:05:25 David Rosenthal Pilot, for those few of you who don't know by now, sets up and operates the entire financial stack for your company, whether you're a startup or a growing company or even a large enterprise, that includes all your finance, all your…
- ▶ 2:06:10 Ben Gilbert And we had a listener chime in and quote, we use Pilot, can't recommend it enough.
- ▶ 2:06:14 David Rosenthal Pilot, they integrate with APIs of all modern startup-grade fintech platforms like Stripe, Brex, Gusto, Shopify, Square, etc.
- ▶ 2:06:24 David Rosenthal Any new up-and-coming service, you can guarantee that Pilot is going to integrate with it way before anybody else, and probably faster than you could do it yourself, even if you had your own engineers working on it.
- ▶ 2:06:35 David Rosenthal When you think about, like, why now of why Pilot exists, this is
- ▶ 2:06:40 David Rosenthal Accounting services has always been a services-based business, and Pilot still provides excellent service to all of their customers, but, like, the why now of so much of finance is turning into technology and fintech, and, like, of course…
- ▶ 2:07:03 Ben Gilbert Well, if you would like to use Pilot, head on over to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 2:07:08 Ben Gilbert Have them eliminate the pain of tax preparation and bookkeeping for good.
- ▶ 2:07:22 Ben Gilbert Our huge thank you to pilot.com.
- ▶ 2:25:37 Ben Gilbert Our huge thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, Brex, and the Solana Foundation for hosting us at Breakpoint this year.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:39 David Rosenthal All right, listeners, for our second sponsor of this episode and all of season 11, we have one of our very favorite companies here in the acquired family, Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:05:50 David Rosenthal Pilot sets up and operates the entire financial stack for startups and growing companies, including finance, accounting, tax, and even higher level CFO services like investor reporting, all of which all of you founders out there would…
- ▶ 1:06:38 Ben Gilbert Pilot is so good at all of this stuff.
- ▶ 1:06:41 Ben Gilbert We were just at their office in San Francisco, actually right before we went to Benchmark and, uh, met with Wasim and got to get a little tour of, uh, everything going on at Pilot HQ right now, and, uh, they're just executing really well.
- ▶ 1:06:53 Ben Gilbert It's a great company.
- ▶ 1:06:55 David Rosenthal And what's super cool is, like, they're not just an accounting firm, they're also a technology company, which is a huge differentiator today for modern companies because you probably run on
- ▶ 1:07:22 David Rosenthal Pilot integrates directly with all of them through software, through APIs.
- ▶ 1:07:42 David Rosenthal Thank you, Pilot.
- ▶ 1:07:43 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Pilot.
- ▶ 1:56:16 Ben Gilbert Well, with that, listeners, our thank you to Fundrise and Pilot.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:34:19 David Rosenthal Speaking of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, I think we should talk about our next sponsor of this episode, the one and only Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:34:31 David Rosenthal Pilot is one of our longtime, very, very favorite companies in the acquired family.
- ▶ 1:34:37 David Rosenthal They set up and operate your entire financial stack as a startup and growing company, including your finance, your accounting, your tax,
- ▶ 1:34:47 David Rosenthal Even higher level CFO services like investor reporting, they can't yet be a software version of like a Meg Whitman in a box for you, but they're working on it.
- ▶ 1:34:56 David Rosenthal They will get there someday.
- ▶ 1:36:11 David Rosenthal Go to Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:36:12 David Rosenthal Use them for the vast, vast, vast majority of companies.
- ▶ 1:36:17 David Rosenthal They take all that headache off of your plate.
- ▶ 1:36:20 David Rosenthal They provide you with a team of experts who this is all they do all day, but they also, and this is what makes Pilot itself such an awesome technology startup backed by Sequoia, Index, Jeff Bezos himself,
- ▶ 1:36:52 Ben Gilbert No, and there's going to be 10 more of those, and Pilot is going to be the people that build the integrations as those things become things that your company uses.
- ▶ 1:37:01 David Rosenthal Stripe itself is an investor in the company.
- ▶ 1:37:14 David Rosenthal Go to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 1:37:22 David Rosenthal And thanks to our friends and Pilot co-founders, Waseem, Jessica, and Jeff.
- ▶ 1:37:27 David Rosenthal All acquired listeners, if you use that link, pilot.com slash acquired,
- ▶ 1:37:36 David Rosenthal Pilot, you guys are the best.
- ▶ 1:37:38 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Pilot.
- ▶ 3:47:41 Ben Gilbert Well, our thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, and our good friends at NZS Capital.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 51:05 David Rosenthal Pilot.com.
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