Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Aug 2022 Acquired Amazon.com
“You couldn't IPO, so if you weren't already out like Amazon was, there's basically no chance that you were going to. I think Google finally IPO'd in 2004.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Aug 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon.com
Transcript context
…And eBay. I mean, eBay survived. It's around, of course, but it didn't win. Pretty believable to make it through that three-year absolute drought of the availability of capital and a complete souring. You couldn't IPO, so if you weren't already out like Amazon was, there's basically no chance that you were going to. I think Google finally IPO'd in 2004. 2004, yeah. Even then, that wasn't like it opened the floodgates.…
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