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Ben Gilbert: belief

22 Apr 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume I

“Despite the fact that he doesn't own half the company, he's got a lot of founder-like control, which I think is pretty interesting.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Apr 2024
Publisher
Acquired

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…Totally. I can't wait in the next episode to talk about the Internet tidal wave memo. That's related to your playbook theme too. You can't really do that if you don't own 49% of the company, if it's not your company. Which I think you're seeing play out with most CEOs today. There's a big difference between a founder-CEO and the stuff that they can do. Zuckerberg with the metaverse or Jensen with betting the whole company and going all in again on AI versus Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai, certainly a very different type of CEO. Satya is interesting. Despite the fact that he doesn't own half the company, he's got a lot of founder-like control, which I think is pretty interesting. All right, don't get ahead of ourselves.…

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