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Ben Gilbert: commitment

4 Mar 2026 Acquired Costco

“I really appreciate it. We will link to the Fast Company peace in the show notes, too.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
commitment
Recorded
4 Mar 2026
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Costco

Transcript context

…Many hours with both of us. It was super cool. Lots and lots of time, basically tracking us as we were preparing the Nike episode. Since he's been listening since 2017–2018, he knew a lot of the history of the show. He wrote this really cool piece. If you are one of the people who has emailed us over the years and said, it'd be great if you guys did something talking about how your research process for Acquired works, David chronicled that much better than David or I ever could have. Thank you, David Lidsky. I really appreciate it. We will link to the Fast Company peace in the show notes, too. Look for ACQ2 if you want to learn more about AI in any podcast player. Check out the Slack. Come discuss it with us, acquired.fm/slack. Listeners, we'll see you next time. I'm going to go get a hotdog and a soda.…

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