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Ben Gilbert: belief

18 Dec 2023 Acquired Holiday Special 2023

“I think you and I just thought that that addressable market was a hundred thousand people or something at first, but now we know it's at least half a million.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 Dec 2023
Publisher
Acquired

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…Of course, unless literally, we start expanding galactically or something like that. The question is, how big is the addressable market for people who want an in-an-audio-only medium consume four-hour essentially books, conversational audio books about business histories often in an esoteric way. Granted you and I have gotten much better at becoming storytellers over time, each one of those concentric circles niches it down. I think you and I just thought that that addressable market was a hundred thousand people or something at first, but now we know it's at least half a million. Yes. The big news is we hit half a million listeners this year, which is pretty wild. Hopefully we can put up the chart, the Ben Gilbert Acquired chart that you make obsessively every month showing our episode growth over time.…

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