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6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company

“Normally we would do this on the business all up. I think for this episode we should try to scope it to AI products.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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belief
Recorded
6 Oct 2025
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Acquired

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…Great. Let’s move on and do power. Hamilton Helm’s seven powers analysis of Google here in the AI era. The seven powers are scale economies, network economies, counter positioning, switching costs, branding, quartered resource, and process power. And the question is, which of these enables a business to achieve persistent differential returns? What entitles them to make greater profits than their nearest competitor sustainably? Normally we would do this on the business all up. I think for this episode we should try to scope it to AI products. Agreed.…

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