Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“You're right, I think there is some sort of scale economy, some network economy here, but we're both describing the same phenomenon.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…They can port their existing user base. They first are doing it with the Wii, which not coincidentally is their big comeback, that Wii could play GameCube games. We're getting ahead of ourselves. Definitely, we are. You're right, I think there is some sort of scale economy, some network economy here, but we're both describing the same phenomenon. It's interesting, I remember back from my days at GSB at Stanford, one of my favorite professors is a professor named Susan Athey, who then later would join the rover.com board with me, and I get to re-intersect with her there. A wonderful, wonderful person, incredibly smart. She was, in addition to being a professor at GSB, the chief economist at Microsoft, and a lot of her work was on Xbox in the video game industry.…
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