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Ben Gilbert: evaluation

2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview

“You paid for the whole arena and you’re going to have slower payback on that because you have less revenue opportunity.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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evaluation
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2 Jun 2025
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Acquired

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…Yeah. California, you can’t have public funding for arenas. That’s why we don’t. You paid for the whole arena and you’re going to have slower payback on that because you have less revenue opportunity. But we took a revenue. Definitely we could have made more revenue on that side if we’d done things a little bit differently. But it’s about basketball. We have a lot of toilets.…

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