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Ben Gilbert: evaluation

3 Aug 2016 Acquired Waze

“David and I realized that it wasn’t very fun when we talked beforehand and then we’re of one mind when we had gotten into the show and then we would refer to things like we were talking before the show which is less fun for you, guys.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
3 Aug 2016
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Waze

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…Are we sharing notes or something? Are you cheating on the test, Ben? No, absolutely I’m not. We actually started like, what, 5 or 6 episodes ago. David and I realized that it wasn’t very fun when we talked beforehand and then we’re of one mind when we had gotten into the show and then we would refer to things like we were talking before the show which is less fun for you, guys. So we were like okay, we’re going to stop talking before the show except for a few things here and there to make sure we have all of our bases covered. And sure enough, here we both are again. Yeah. This is so clearly what it is because if you run through all of our previous categories for acquisition like this was not a people acquisition. The Waze founders were clearly very talented. But Google had plenty of people who were great at –…

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