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Ben Gilbert: belief

17 Mar 2020 Acquired The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time

“Very seasoned technology executive. But the way I think about Google is at their founding, they were tech geniuses.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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belief
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17 Mar 2020
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Acquired

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…He was CEO during all of these acquisitions, I think. Very seasoned technology executive. But the way I think about Google is at their founding, they were tech geniuses. They figured out something very disruptive but didn't really realize it. They didn't know what to use it for. As Doug Leone said, it took him a couple of years to figure out. They knew they had something, but exactly what it was, they didn't know.…

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