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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
24 Nov 2025 Acquired Coca-Cola
“We will get there. But it’s this notion of everything should be standardized. It should be the formula, it should be the marketing, it should be the packaging.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 24 Nov 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Coca-Cola
Transcript context
…Oh geez. What happened in 1985 besides Robert Woodruff dying, which is directly related to what else happened in 1985? We will get there. But it’s this notion of everything should be standardized. It should be the formula, it should be the marketing, it should be the packaging. They were already in this ballpark, but it was his idea that wherever you are when you reach for a Coke, it should feel the same, it should taste the same, it should have the same temperature. The spiritual thing that he does to illustrate this is he goes to the bank in New York and says, we are repaying the loan, we are taking our formula, the canonical, one-of-one formula, and we are moving it to our bank, the Trust Company Bank in Atlanta, which would become SunTrust and it would sit there for the next 86 years. And is now in World of Coca-Cola, right?…
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