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Benchmark Part I | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 11 | episode 4 Benchmark Part I Ben: Welcome to season 11, episode 4 of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures. David: And I’m David Rosenthal, and I'm an angel investor based in San Francisco. Ben: And we are your hosts. The hardest thing to do in venture capital is create thos

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