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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet
“Just like we talked about on the Microsoft episodes, it really doesn’t matter when you fail and how many times you fail, even the size of your failures, if your hits are these giant world changing platform type tech businesses that endure for decades and that’s what they had on their hands.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
Transcript context
…It was just silly. There are like 7 billion people in the world. They’re active over 3 billion active Android phones. You’re probably thinking coming into this 2010, 2011 era, they’re really feeling themselves over there at Google. We've jumped over some failures, but it’s been hit after hit after hit in a lot of these areas that really matter. Just like we talked about on the Microsoft episodes, it really doesn’t matter when you fail and how many times you fail, even the size of your failures, if your hits are these giant world changing platform type tech businesses that endure for decades and that’s what they had on their hands. And it sure looked at this time like there was another big technology category out there,…
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