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Ben Gilbert: belief

24 Nov 2025 Acquired Coca-Cola

“My opinion has always been that Coca-Cola is the type of business that can be run.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
24 Nov 2025
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Coca-Cola

Transcript context

…Roberto gets very offended and apparently never talks to Bill Gates again. Now, given what’s about to happen here, it’s actually highly debatable whether Roberto was a ham sandwich or not. My opinion has always been that Coca-Cola is the type of business that can be run. But maybe let’s save this for the quintessence. We should finish the episode deciding if that is true about the Coca-Cola company or not. Yes. Well Roberto is about to become responsible for both the company’s greatest success since Coca-Cola and its worst disaster of all time. First the success. Of course, we’re talking about the most successful diet drink in the history of humankind. Basically the only soda that I drink today, Diet Coke.…

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