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Ben Gilbert: belief

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“I think, definitionally, she also has switching costs because the CEO of Spotify, when she was not on Spotify, was flying to the US to negotiate for her to get back on.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yup. Okay, I can buy that. I think, definitionally, she also has switching costs because the CEO of Spotify, when she was not on Spotify, was flying to the US to negotiate for her to get back on. Clearly, you can't substitute a replacement and have equal value. Which I think also implies cornered resource. Does she have network economies with the fans and the Swifties?…

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