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Ben Gilbert: belief

19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022

“There'd be more shows. I think we would've tried to turn it into a network. We would've taken people up on the book offers.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
19 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…What do you think the ‘what would've happened otherwise’ would be if we did the hard stuff? One thing we've been very explicit about and a trade-off for the show and Acquired as an entity and a business is we don't want to have a lot of employees. We don't want to have a team. There'd be more shows. I think we would've tried to turn it into a network. We would've taken people up on the book offers. There could be a Netflix show. I'm trying to think, is there anything we could have done or still do that would just be like a fundamentally different thing? Everything you're describing would be building [...]. That would be great. We probably would make more money, but that's not what we want to do. Is there anything that would be like an Uber versus a to-do app?…

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