Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
23 Nov 2020 Acquired Virgin Galactic
“The idea of when you know you're early to a market, having no shame about sort of passing, then coming back and saying, nope, still lots of runway ahead, I think that's an important one and one not to be missed.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 23 Nov 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Virgin Galactic
Transcript context
…[...] already on that. Yeah. Okay, cool. That's a prize. I think that the important second one here is the concept of, the best time to invest was yesterday, but the second best time is today, where Branson famously turned down Peter twice for the XPRIZE. Not that that would have been an investment anyway, but stayed out of this game until literally the night before the first all eyes on the prize successful flight, then comes in and funds it. To say that that was still the first inning of consumer space travel would be a vast understatement. The idea of when you know you're early to a market, having no shame about sort of passing, then coming back and saying, nope, still lots of runway ahead, I think that's an important one and one not to be missed. Totally. The only one I would add, unless you have other playbook themes you want to talk about?…
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