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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
15 Nov 2022 Acquired Qualcomm
“There are two other small things that happen that I think let's just skip. I'll mention them briefly but let's get into analysis.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Nov 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Qualcomm
Transcript context
…Even for the technology industry writ large. Just like with Android, you had an iPhone rivaling operating system available off the shelf for any kind of application that let a million flowers bloom. To have the same thing for Apple Silicon, that's pretty cool. There are two other small things that happen that I think let's just skip. I'll mention them briefly but let's get into analysis. Paul Jacobs got kicked off the board of Qualcomm in 2018. He tried to take the company private through a buyout when there was all this tumult about is it going to be bought by Broadcom, all this stuff. The board said, if you're going to try and make a hostile takeover and LBO the company yourself, you can get right off the board. There are no members of the Jacobs family on the board of directors anymore. The other thing that happened in 2016–2018, Qualcomm tried to acquire NXP Semiconductors. But I think eventually trying to just drag their feet enough to kill [...]. They get tied up in the whole Broadcom thing.…
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