Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I don't think we figured out the way to do it, and everybody else should just snap our way.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…They're very different personalities and that helps. Something inside me feels so crunchy. I don't think we've figured out a better way to do it. I don't think we figured out the way to do it, and everybody else should just snap our way. It's like we have an enormous amount of privilege that we can run a business in this way, and most people have constraints that prevent them from doing this. It's not that we're right and everybody else is wrong. It's that we have set up a particular system that works for us. But it is like you're right and I'm wrong, that there really is a way of running a business that we could have done with against the rules. I'm going to go think about it. Anyway, what's our next carve-out?…
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