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Ben Gilbert: belief

19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022

“I'll also say, I think The Verge has been the thing that's surprisingly the most helpful for me for Acquired research this year.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
19 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Which is super rare. It's super rare. His legal background, he gets all the interesting IP copyright stuff that's going on in technology. I just feel like there's that Scott Adams aphorism, you don't want to be top 1% of anything, you want to be top 25% at the right 3 things, and figure out how to marry them together. I feel like that's Nilay. I'll also say, I think The Verge has been the thing that's surprisingly the most helpful for me for Acquired research this year. I did a ton of Qualcomm research on The Verge, because they've done so much reporting on Qualcomm over the years. So a big Verge fan. I know that we don't have publication or the category. They've got podcasts.…

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