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Ben Gilbert: evaluation

26 Apr 2023 Acquired Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

“If I'm hearing you, right, it's because it's just difficult to accrue enough power over the ecosystem to have flexibility in your business, to have pricing power, to be able to negotiate effectively with everyone else you need to to reach your customers.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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evaluation
Recorded
26 Apr 2023
Publisher
Acquired

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…I have the great benefit at the moment of not being a venture capitalist in the firm, but having a lot of dough. I am in a position where I can make these investments personally, so the answer is yes. In fact, Blake and I have made some of these investments in things that maybe would have shaded into the studio realm in my previous life. However, I would not have done them at Benchmark. If I'm hearing you, right, it's because it's just difficult to accrue enough power over the ecosystem to have flexibility in your business, to have pricing power, to be able to negotiate effectively with everyone else you need to to reach your customers. Yeah, distribution is king.…

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