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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“In fact, I remember in one of my last few years of being a venture capitalist, one of my partners asked me how I learned so much so quickly about different industry dynamics.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Reading your books and being a liberal arts major at Princeton, for me. Studying the businesses that we studied for Acquired helps me make acquired far more than any investment memo I ever wrote. In fact, I remember in one of my last few years of being a venture capitalist, one of my partners asked me how I learned so much so quickly about different industry dynamics. I was like, it's, it's not because I'm talking to all these early stage companies, none of which know what the future looks like. It's studying these mature businesses and understanding what markets can look like at maturity. Acquired helped me be an investor much better than the other way around. Got you. What can you do now as storytellers that you couldn't do 10 years ago?…
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