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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
28 Sept 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part I
“The bottom of the trough, I think, was something around $7 billion, and then it would have another run-up in 2004 up to $77 billion.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Benchmark Part I
Transcript context
…Of course, that would never happen again. No, of course not. It's funny. I looked up eBay's market cap today. If you look at eBay's market cap when they went public, it was a couple of billion dollars, then of course, ran up real fast as we talked about to $25 billion, stayed there through the dot-com crash. The bottom of the trough, I think, was something around $7 billion, and then it would have another run-up in 2004 up to $77 billion. But after going up and down, buying PayPal, and divesting PayPal, after all this, do you know where it is today, David? I believe it's about $25 billion, right?…
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