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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
5 Mar 2026 Acquired Rolex
“When you’re thinking about what enables Apple’s profits versus Rolex’s profits, if I go buy a Rolex, I will pay about 10 times more than I paid for my Apple Watch.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 5 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Rolex
Transcript context
…Same. Just that instrumenting of both calories and sleep. Same every day for years and years. Okay, so that’s competitive. But interestingly, I don’t think about the prices of those since they don’t achieve the same function. I don’t compare their prices. When you’re thinking about what enables Apple’s profits versus Rolex’s profits, if I go buy a Rolex, I will pay about 10 times more than I paid for my Apple Watch. In some ways this is a silly exercise because the whole point of the last God knows how many hours here is they actually don’t have any competitors. There’s nobody for them to counter position against.…
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