Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Oh, so excited. Well, one big disclaimer upfront. Much like how our NFL episode wasn’t about football and our NBA episode wasn’t about basketball. this episode isn’t really about watches. It’s about the business of watches. If you want to know, every time an episode drops, check out our email list. It is the only place where we will share a hint of what our next episode will be, and we’ll share corrections, updates, and little tidbits that we learned from previous episodes. That’s acquired.fm/email or click the link in the show notes. Join the Slack. Come talk to us about this episode with the whole Acquired community afterwards, acquired.fm/slack. And if you want more Acquired between monthly episodes, check out ACQ2, our interview show where we talk to founders, CEOs, and investors who are building businesses in areas that we’ve covered on the show. The most recent one was a very fun interview we did with a friend of the show, Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, about really the whole history of web development frameworks, and their latest and greatest product v0, a startup within a startup that lets you code web apps from scratch in just English instead of a programming language. Search ACQ2 in any podcast player. And listeners, this is not investment advice, but you can’t invest in this and you can’t invest in many of the other great brands that we are going to talk about on this episode either. There’s something remarkable about the companies we wish we could invest in, but actually we can’t. So this show is for informational and entertainment purposes only. David, where do we start our story? All right. We start, as is so often the case with these big old European companies back not in the last century but even the century before that, on March 22nd in 1881 in Kulmbach, Bavaria, about 30 miles north of Nuremberg in present day Germany, where Hans Eberhard Wilhelm Wilsdorf is born to young Anna and Johan Wilsdorf.…

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