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Ben Gilbert: recommendation

25 Jul 2023 Acquired Nike

“I think you should go listen to Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman, and then you should listen to him again on Ben Thompson in that order.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
recommendation
Recorded
25 Jul 2023
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Nike

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…I love these wild career changes, where you go from being a journalist and an author to starting a technology company. Yeah, it's pretty cool. All right, quick carve out. I think you should go listen to Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman, and then you should listen to him again on Ben Thompson in that order. He's been on a little bit of a media tour since the Andreessen Horowitz strategy. It's everything we talked about on the episode with them and how they're the most media-savvy in the game, in part, because of working with [...] there. But oh, my God, he's so smart. It's just a privilege to get to listen to him talk every once in a while. It's fun that he's out talking right now because his perspective on AI is also yes, he's talking his book and also, all of his arguments are extremely compelling. He's very smart, so I recommend you listen to it. It's like LeBron selling shoes. You know that he's selling shoes. But my God, he's amazing.…

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