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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
18 Sept 2017 Acquired AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
“I think like I’ve given and we may have to go back and revise at some point, but I’ve given YouTube a C because like I was worried about the opportunity cost of focusing on that for Google when it was a breakeven business.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- evaluation
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- 18 Sept 2017
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…Bankrupt them. You're right, you're right. Yeah. And so, with our scale it’s almost sort of logarithmic toward the top because we often are like, well, we gave Instagram an A, so this thing has to be like a B+. And like, there’s very successful acquisitions that we don’t give A’s. I think like I’ve given and we may have to go back and revise at some point, but I’ve given YouTube a C because like I was worried about the opportunity cost of focusing on that for Google when it was a breakeven business. So to me, while I don't know if I could go F because AOL didn’t completely crater their own business by making this acquisition, I don’t think I -- But Time Warner did.…
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