Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
11 Nov 2016 Acquired The Facebook IPO
“I think yeah, there’s an existential thing where they totally… and VR. They totally fear missing the next boat since they almost missed the mobile boat.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Facebook IPO
Transcript context
…Total aside by the way, related to Facebook. It gets a lot of press but not in this context. Facebook is kind of trying to do this again, everything we’re just talking about, and that’s reinventing itself around video. I think yeah, there’s an existential thing where they totally… and VR. They totally fear missing the next boat since they almost missed the mobile boat. So like, buy Oculus and be way ahead of the curve on that. Try to buy Snapchat, yeah. And Snapchat is mobile and I just made that analogy like oh, could Snapchat have killed Facebook in mobile. But, Snapchat is also video.…
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