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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pilot comes up
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 51:07 David Rosenthal Pilot sets up and operates
- ▶ 51:42 Ben Gilbert You're like, I shouldn't be doing this, but I am doing this call pilot.
- ▶ 52:10 David Rosenthal Instead, you should just go on over to pilot.
- ▶ 52:12 David Rosenthal They take all of that headache off your plate as a founder.
- ▶ 52:19 David Rosenthal It's not only that pilot has teams of expert accountants and financial professionals who can do your books and your financial reporting for you.
- ▶ 52:28 David Rosenthal They also are a technology company run on APIs because today, you know, fast forward, the legacy of everything AWS creates here is Stripe.
- ▶ 52:52 David Rosenthal Well, Pilot integrates with them.
- ▶ 52:58 David Rosenthal Pilot integrates with Stripe, Brex, Gusto, Shopify, Square, you name it.
- ▶ 53:04 David Rosenthal And they take all of that data right into your financial stack directly.
- ▶ 53:09 Ben Gilbert And importantly, you can just count on the fact that they're going to keep integrating with whatever the next leading edge financial thing is.
- ▶ 53:29 David Rosenthal Pilot co-founders and good friends, Wasim, Jessica, and Jeff are all MIT engineers.
- ▶ 53:52 David Rosenthal Jeff Bezos himself is an investor in the company alongside Sequoia, Index, and many, many other great VCs.
- ▶ 54:01 David Rosenthal So thanks to Wasim and crew, everybody in the Acquired community, if you use Pilot, go on over to pilot.com slash acquired, sign up there, and if you use that link, you will get 20% off your first six months of service.
- ▶ 54:19 Ben Gilbert Thanks Pilot.
- ▶ 54:20 David Rosenthal Thanks Pilot.
- ▶ 2:47:56 Ben Gilbert Well, thank you so much to Fundrise, Pilot, and NZS Capital.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:54 Ben Gilbert Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:47:02 David Rosenthal We should say on this episode and our next one too, Pilot.com backed
- ▶ 1:47:17 David Rosenthal So Pilot, as many folks now know, one of our absolute favorite companies on Acquired, they set up and operate the entire financial stack that you need as a startup and a growing company.
- ▶ 1:47:57 David Rosenthal And Pilot does that for you.
- ▶ 1:48:08 Ben Gilbert Pilot has recognized this and they say, look, we're a product and we have people that you work with.
- ▶ 1:49:02 David Rosenthal An old school accounting firm is not going to connect directly to your Stripe API, but Pilot of course does.
- ▶ 1:49:14 David Rosenthal Pilot, this is their beer.
- ▶ 1:49:26 David Rosenthal So going over to pilot.com slash acquired, or click the link in the show notes, make your life way easier as a founder, get back to focusing on what makes your beer taste better, and eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping from your…
- ▶ 1:49:58 David Rosenthal So many of the companies I invest in now and work with use Pilot.
- ▶ 1:50:02 Ben Gilbert Thanks Pilot.
- ▶ 4:22:37 Ben Gilbert Well, our thanks to Fundrise, Pilot, and NZS Capital.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:36:48 David Rosenthal I think makes this the perfect place for the 99% of other companies out there, and especially most tech companies and startups, to talk about our second sponsor of the episode, our friends over at Pilot.
- ▶ 1:37:01 Ben Gilbert Because they do something that you almost certainly do not need to be doing in-house as your core competency.
- ▶ 1:37:08 David Rosenthal Pilot sets up and operates the entire financial stack for startups and growing companies including finance, accounting,
- ▶ 1:37:29 David Rosenthal With Pilot, they take care of all of that.
- ▶ 1:37:42 David Rosenthal Pilot is one of the very, very best examples of that, not just in and of itself,
- ▶ 1:37:46 David Rosenthal It is also backed by Jeff Bezos himself and Sequoia and Index and lots of other great investors.
- ▶ 1:38:08 David Rosenthal The other traditional option before Pilot and I used to work with lots of companies that did this was go find like a
- ▶ 1:38:32 Ben Gilbert So pilot is both human powered and product powered because it has sort of built all these connectors with the modern financial stack that your business probably uses.
- ▶ 1:38:51 David Rosenthal Pilot plugs into all of those providers.
- ▶ 1:38:54 David Rosenthal They take literally all the headache of finance and accounting off of your plate as a founder, provide you with a team of financial experts and accountants to both do your books and all the technology and infrastructure, like we're saying,…
- ▶ 1:39:34 David Rosenthal And have them eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping from your company for good.
- ▶ 1:39:40 David Rosenthal And thanks to our friends, pilot co-founders, Waseem, Jessica, and Jeff, all acquired listeners.
- ▶ 1:39:54 David Rosenthal Thank you, pilot.
- ▶ 3:04:01 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, and NZS Capital.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:14 Ben Gilbert And with tools like Vanta and last season sponsor pilot, I mean, you have this ability to get so much more of your internal focus exclusively on the thing that makes your company great.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:48 David Rosenthal Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:49 David Rosenthal Pilot is the backbone of the modern financial stack for startups.
- ▶ 1:53 David Rosenthal They themselves, as you know, are backed by all-star investors like Sequoia, Index, Bezos Expeditions, and Stripe, and they are truly the gold standard for startup bookkeeping.
- ▶ 2:04 David Rosenthal Now over to our conversation with Pilot co-founders Wasim Dahir and Jessica McKellar.
- ▶ 2:11 David Rosenthal So as we come to the end of the season, let's turn to Pilot as a company itself.
- ▶ 2:52 Jessica McKellar Pile's our third company.
- ▶ 3:40 David Rosenthal Well, I can't think of any better note to end our time together this season on, nor, frankly, any better pitch for why all startups should be using Pilot for all their bookkeeping and tax and CFO needs.
- ▶ 3:58 David Rosenthal You can learn more about Pilot and whether they can help your company eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping by going to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 4:15 David Rosenthal Thank you, Wasim, Jessica, and all of Pilot.
- ▶ 1:56:47 Ben Gilbert Thanks to Pilot, PitchBook, and NordVPN.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:48 David Rosenthal Well, before we dive in, I would like to welcome our presenting sponsor for all of season nine, pilot.com.
- ▶ 3:54 David Rosenthal Pilot is the backbone of the modern financial stack for startups.
- ▶ 3:58 David Rosenthal They themselves are backed by all-star investors like Sequoia, Index, Bezos Expeditions, and Stripe, and they are truly the gold standard for startup bookkeeping.
- ▶ 4:09 David Rosenthal Now over to our conversation with Pilot co-founders Wasim Dahir and Jessica McKellar.
- ▶ 4:15 David Rosenthal All right, so we've talked a lot now about how Pilot works technically and the combination of humans and software and Ironman suits for your finance professionals.
- ▶ 4:25 David Rosenthal What does your actual tech stack look like and what types of technical talent are you looking to recruit to come join the team at Pilot?
- ▶ 4:32 unnamed speaker Pilot has a really stacked engineering team, and that's because what we're doing is quite difficult.
- ▶ 5:31 David Rosenthal You can learn more about Pilot and whether they can help your company eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping by going to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 5:48 David Rosenthal Thank you, Wasim and Jessica, and everybody at Pilot.
- ▶ 5:52 Ben Gilbert Thanks, Pilot.
- ▶ 1:53:01 Ben Gilbert Go subscribe to The Generalist, readthegeneralist.com, and our thanks to Pilot, PitchBook, and NordVPN.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 4:50 Ben Gilbert Well, David, uh, take us into Pilot.
- ▶ 4:53 David Rosenthal Before we dive in with Paki, I'd like to welcome our presenting sponsor for all of Season Nine, Pilot.com.
- ▶ 5:02 David Rosenthal Pilot is the backbone of the modern financial stack for startups, and they are backed themselves, as you know, by all-star investors like Sequoia, Index, Bezos Expeditions, and Stripe.
- ▶ 5:12 David Rosenthal They are truly the gold standard in startup bookkeeping, including maybe solo corporations that we'll have to dive into here on this episode.
- ▶ 5:22 David Rosenthal Uh, now over to our conversation with pilot co-founders Wasim Dahir and Jessica McKellar.
- ▶ 5:29 David Rosenthal So for this episode, let's talk about how Pilot actually works.
- ▶ 6:30 David Rosenthal You know, one thing I've heard Wasim say in the past about Pilot is that it's like an Ironman suit for your finance professionals that you have working at Pilot, and I just love that.
- ▶ 6:41 David Rosenthal Pilot is the Tony Stark of accountants for your customers.
- ▶ 6:47 David Rosenthal You can learn more about Pilot and whether they can help your company solo or otherwise eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping by going to pilot.com slash acquired and all acquired listeners.
- ▶ 1:09:47 Ben Gilbert Like we thought we pioneered a unique sponsorship format and, and the, the presenting sponsorship where you, we like really throw our lot in with, with the presenting sponsor for, for three months, shout out to pilot album, our website,…
- ▶ 1:36:59 Packy McCormick And so, you know, we're talking about, we're talking about pilot and I certainly probably need, uh, the help of bookkeepers.
- ▶ 3:05:23 Ben Gilbert Well, thank you to pilot pitch book and Nord VPN and listeners.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:37 David Rosenthal Well, last thing before we dive into part two here of the Standard Oil story is, as always, Pilot, our presenting sponsor for all of season nine.
- ▶ 4:49 David Rosenthal Pilot is the backbone of the modern financial stack for startups.
- ▶ 4:53 David Rosenthal As you know, they are backed by all-star investors themselves, like Sequoia, Index, Bezos Expeditions, and Stripe.
- ▶ 4:59 David Rosenthal They are truly, truly, truly the gold standard for startup bookkeeping.
- ▶ 5:08 David Rosenthal He would have Pilot do it.
- ▶ 5:23 Ben Gilbert Like any of you listening out there, like .one percent of you run an accounting company, so get Pilot to do it instead.
- ▶ 5:38 David Rosenthal So we talked last time about what changed that enabled you all to build Pilot as an actual technology company versus just a professional services provider as pretty much every startup bookkeeping service was before y'all.
- ▶ 5:51 David Rosenthal What services does Pilot integrate with and what does that look like from your customer's point of view?
- ▶ 5:56 Waseem Daher Yeah, I mean, one of the great things about Pilot is, first, it doesn't matter what institutions you're using, we know how to ingest and take good care of your financial stack.
- ▶ 6:06 Waseem Daher Now, on top of that, one of the great things about Pilot is that we do have the expertise for these deep integrations with tools as they evolve quickly.
- ▶ 6:42 Waseem Daher And the good thing about Pilot is, you know, you're talking to a person who understands you and your business and your needs and is taking care of translating that into what happens on the back end.
- ▶ 7:08 David Rosenthal That's pilot's job.
- ▶ 7:20 David Rosenthal You can learn more about Pilot and whether they can help your company eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping by going to pilot.com slash acquired, and thanks to Wasim and Jessica, all acquired listeners, if you use that link, you…
- ▶ 7:47 David Rosenthal Have Pilot do them for you.
- ▶ 2:43:51 Ben Gilbert Thanks so much to our friends at Pilot, PitchBook, and NordVPN.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 3:06 David Rosenthal Before we dive in, I would like to welcome our presenting sponsor for all of season nine, pilot.com.
- ▶ 3:12 David Rosenthal Pilot is the backbone of the modern financial stack for startups and is backed themselves by all-star investors like Sequoia, Index, Bezos Expeditions, and Stripe.
- ▶ 3:21 David Rosenthal They are truly the gold standard for startup bookkeeping.
- ▶ 3:25 David Rosenthal They are truly the gold standard for startup bookkeeping.
- ▶ 3:36 David Rosenthal Today he would have started his career working for Pilot.
- ▶ 3:41 David Rosenthal Now, over to our conversation with Pilot co-founders Waseem Dahir and Jessica McKellar.
- ▶ 4:02 David Rosenthal What changed that enabled you to actually build Pilot as a technology company around this?
- ▶ 4:09 Waseem Daher So I think there are really two trends that enable Pilot to exist now, sort of at this unique moment in time.
- ▶ 5:37 David Rosenthal You can learn more about Pilot and whether they can help your company eliminate the pain of tax prep and bookkeeping by going to pilot.com slash acquired.
- ▶ 5:53 David Rosenthal Super excited to have y'all with us this season, and, uh, seriously, go check them out.