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Ben Gilbert: belief

5 Dec 2016 Acquired Marvel

“I think launching them in, what, a custom vending machine in LA and then not going away, and of course selling out immediately and having a huge line, and then popping one up.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
5 Dec 2016
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Marvel

Transcript context

…We haven’t made it to a vending machine yet. No, no. And my God, Evan Spiegel is a product marketing genius. I think launching them in, what, a custom vending machine in LA and then not going away, and of course selling out immediately and having a huge line, and then popping one up. Where was the one in the kind of like Great Plains area? Tulsa, I think. And then on the Grand Canyon. And once people are saying, “Where is it going to be next?” Then having a store in New York City that just has the vending machine in the back of the store. Like, I just wonder what’s next. Maybe there’s even something before this show goes live but – Spectacles in space?…

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