Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“What it comes down to is I think there’s an ethos at Facebook, that at many steps along the way, there was an opportunity to grow, to win, to compete.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…So great. It really is. Really is. What it comes down to is I think there’s an ethos at Facebook, that at many steps along the way, there was an opportunity to grow, to win, to compete. What mattered was winning. Then when the dust settles, you can look around and say, okay, what was the impact of that? That is one way to run a company. The other way is to be really careful and ask permission. Facebook fell into the first camp and they probably wouldn’t be here today or certainly at least wouldn’t be a global player with four billion users today if they hadn’t fallen into the first camp. But by falling into that first camp, you have stuff that comes up where you’re like, ah, crap, I wish we hadn’t done that, and this is one of them, The time bombs. Totally.…
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