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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022

“Sorry if you were on the fence on FTX and you were like, I don't know if this thing's legit or not, and then Acquired legitimized that for you.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
19 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…We caused our platform to Sam and to FTX. I do feel bad about that. I don't think there's any way we could have known at the time and I don't want to stop having interesting people and companies on the show, up and coming companies. It sucks and a lot of people lost a lot of money. Sorry if you were on the fence on FTX and you were like, I don't know if this thing's legit or not, and then Acquired legitimized that for you. Next? If you have not listened to the Sony episode—I'm sure most of you have—it's so good. Oh my gosh. Talk about the opposite of a fraud.…

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