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Ben Gilbert: commitment

28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta

“We are going to do a seven powers analysis of what enables Meta to achieve persistent differential returns, or to put it another way to be more profitable than their closest competitor and do so sustainably.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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commitment
Recorded
28 Oct 2024
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Meta

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…Yup. Move on to analysis? Yup. Okay, in the analysis the first thing we’re going to do is power and then playbook. We are going to do a seven powers analysis of what enables Meta to achieve persistent differential returns, or to put it another way to be more profitable than their closest competitor and do so sustainably. This is interesting. Who is their closest competitor? I think that’s probably worth defining first and foremost. Ultimately, they are in the business of selling advertising. I think their closest competitor is Google. They are certainly the most similar looking businesses in their current forms.…

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