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Ben Gilbert: belief

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“To my original point on the way that she tells her favorite version of the truth in some of these situations to create the largest impact, I think the savviest people in her audience could be spoken to in a little bit more of a nuanced way.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…And so few other people do at the scale that she does. She understands the power and the value of her audience. She spends a remarkable amount of time catering to them, building things for them, and interacting with them. To my original point on the way that she tells her favorite version of the truth in some of these situations to create the largest impact, I think the savviest people in her audience could be spoken to in a little bit more of a nuanced way. Right. When you think of how she speaks to 200 million people versus how traditional media used to speak to 200 million people, it's very different.…

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