Pilot, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pilot comes up
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.
- ▶ 5:58 David Rosenthal They're the best.
- ▶ 5:59 Ben Gilbert Love Pilot.
- ▶ 2:36:05 Ben Gilbert And I think with that, thank you to pilot.com, the greatest bookkeeper since John D.