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Ben Gilbert: belief

28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta

“I think Mark got the demo of Oculus and was just like, oh this has the most credible potential to be the future out of anything that I’ve ever tried, so yes.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Oct 2024
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Meta

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…No I didn’t. I knew they were both in 2014 but I didn’t realize they were a month apart. It’s wild. I think Mark got the demo of Oculus and was just like, oh this has the most credible potential to be the future out of anything that I’ve ever tried, so yes. But I think actually the right way to think about this is through the same lens as FAIR. It’s a research lab in the same way that FAIR is a research lab. And it was like, oh great, $2 billion to kickstart the research lab. Fantastic.…

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