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E63 – The Merge Origin Story
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It started with an email to 300 fighter pilots. Joey Arora turns the tables on Mike "Pako" Benitez to get the full origin story of The Merge. Mike spent 25 years on active duty between the Marine Corps and Air Force, flew the F-15E Strike Eagle, and graduated from the Air Force Weapons School. During COVID in 2020, he saw the defense world had nothing like the newsletters the startup world lived on. So he built one. Six years later, The Merge runs three days a week, with a premium tier and a podcast. Topics include: • Writing op-eds on active duty • Marine Corps enlisted to Air Force weapons systems officer • The first newsletter in November 2020 • How Save Rounds and On the Radar were born…