Adapting Episode 1: Canlis

Published: March 20, 2020, 2:59 p.m.

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The world has changed. Acquired is changing too: we\\u2019re taking a pause from our normal episodes. The world doesn\\u2019t need stories of M&A and IPOs right now. But it does still need stories of great companies and great leaders. So we\\u2019re taking everything that we\\u2019ve put into Acquired - our format, our infrastructure, and the way we can reach all of you - and launching Adapting. Adapting is a series all about doing just that -- changing to fit what the world needs right now, not what it needed last week.

Our first episode starts on the front lines of change: the local restaurant industry. Mark Canlis joins us to discuss how the world-renowned Canlis restaurant in Seattle is adapting by simultaneously closing their 70 year old dining room service, and launching three brand new, no-contact concept restaurants in just one week to keep their staff employed and the city fed:

"Pretty quickly we realized that it would be just as risky to do nothing as it would to do something really radical. And if we were gonna live into our values, every once and awhile that\\u2019s really going to cost you something."

This conversation is an incredible inspiration to us all, and a reminder of the vast power of the human spirit during challenging times.\\xa0

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