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Ben Gilbert: belief

15 Nov 2022 Acquired Qualcomm

“People flipped from Qualcomm, we think really highly of you and you're a pioneer of technology and true inventors, which they are.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
15 Nov 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Qualcomm

Transcript context

…I guess to be fair, the silicon engineering and the chip design, even for like, oh, just an RF antenna, that is a million times more complex than any processor in a phone 10 years ago. It is truly differentiated work that they're doing. That was obviously a huge win. To the point, I think today, Qualcomm makes on average about $20 for every smartphone sold in the world, including Apple iPhones. Yes. Let's get into that. I've got the timeline from here. Going to 2009, this is when all the litigation really starts to happen. People flipped from Qualcomm, we think really highly of you and you're a pioneer of technology and true inventors, which they are. They still spend a ton of the company's revenue and reinvest that into R&D. But where they really start to be known by their customers, the media, and the ecosystem as value capture pioneers. How do you capture pioneers? That's a new way. That's another Acquired t-shirt, value captured pioneer.…

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