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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II
“I think that’s a lost to history moment is the acquisition that almost happened here for $47 billion.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Jul 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Microsoft Volume II
Transcript context
…Oh, I can’t wait to talk about that. Okay, Ben, I’m too excited for Azure. Let’s do search. Let’s do mobile, Windows 8, Zune. Let’s get all that. Then let’s talk Cloud, baby. And David, unexpectedly, there is a through line through all of them. There’s a cohesive story that leads to Azure here. Okay, search, and the alternate title of this chapter could be an acquisition that wasn’t. I think that’s a lost to history moment is the acquisition that almost happened here for $47 billion. Ooh, okay.…
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