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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
20 Jun 2022 Acquired The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
“I think there's really something to just always thinking, okay, I just got more valuable, and that puts me in a position to get even more valuable again, and always just be really thoughtful and super aggressive about seizing that next opportunity.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
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- 20 Jun 2022
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…Just yesterday, they raised another $4.5 billion dollar crypto fund. And they're somewhere between $30 and $40 billion under management now in 13 years since founding. They basically never took their resources and took that as a static notion of like, oh, good, now we can do some interesting things with this. They basically always looked at everything they had and say, okay, we're in a strong position, how do we get stronger? How do we do more faster and compound what we have? I think there's really something to just always thinking, okay, I just got more valuable, and that puts me in a position to get even more valuable again, and always just be really thoughtful and super aggressive about seizing that next opportunity. The other example that we have to mention on this one from the Acquired canon is literally the OG, OG , OG American capitalist business, which is Standard Oil ran this playbook to a tee.…
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