Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022
“Maybe I'm too focused on the downside and maybe it will turn out that while we may alienate some people, it's the largest thing in Acquired history because I was shocked that—we will keep going here on big episodes—the Amazon episode was by far the biggest in Acquired history.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 19 Dec 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Holiday Special 2022
Transcript context
…We got to think about the right way to do this. Maybe I'm too focused on the downside and maybe it will turn out that while we may alienate some people, it's the largest thing in Acquired history because I was shocked that—we will keep going here on big episodes—the Amazon episode was by far the biggest in Acquired history. When David pitched me on this idea, I was like I don't know. Brad Stone has written some excellent books on this. There's been documentaries. Jeff Bezos is the most studied CEO in the world, I think, until this recent Elon madness. What can we bring to the world in the Amazon? Which by the way, I think that has become this year something's crystallized for me about Acquired and the show and what we do. I think that should always be our lens. What can we add by doing it, because there are lots of voices out there saying lots of things. Spoiler alert, this is part of why we haven't covered Twitter.…
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