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Ben Gilbert: belief

28 Sept 2022 Acquired Benchmark Part I

“The sophistication of applying all the behavioral psychology and the machine learning that applies a lot of the models to just the ruthless execution of capitalism. I don’t think we realized it yet and it was just much more nascent.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Sept 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…We just didn't know. I don't think anything was actually different. It was still early. And frankly, there weren't enough hooks in most products yet to make you hopelessly addicted. The sophistication of applying all the behavioral psychology and the machine learning that applies a lot of the models to just the ruthless execution of capitalism. I don’t think we realized it yet and it was just much more nascent. Of which Uber, a prime example. You all know what happens. It’s interesting. What’s the right way for us to talk about this?…

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