Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I think we found our way to that probably four-ish years ago, maybe five years ago, where we used to feel like we were bad at podcasting because we couldn't make very many, because we didn't have a whole production team, and we didn't have professional ad salespeople.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- evaluation
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- 15 Dec 2025
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- Acquired
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…We were starting to do it, then we covered the NFL, and we were like, aha, this is what we're doing. Most of these things actually are confirmation bias. We get some inkling that we should continue to go in this direction. In calling out Hermes, it's because I think quality and scarcity have become an important part of Acquired. In some ways we learned that from Hermes, but we covered Hermes last year. I think we found our way to that probably four-ish years ago, maybe five years ago, where we used to feel like we were bad at podcasting because we couldn't make very many, because we didn't have a whole production team, and we didn't have professional ad salespeople. We weren't full-time for a long time.…
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