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Ben Gilbert: commitment

19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022

“I won't say that I'm not interested in reading all the TMZ drama about it. It's totally fascinating.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
commitment
Recorded
19 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yes. I don't ever want to feel like TMZ. I won't say that I'm not interested in reading all the TMZ drama about it. It's totally fascinating. If you can run a company with 80% less people than you were running it before and nothing goes terribly wrong, that's super interesting for the world to know. Now, of course, it does look like all sorts of things are going wrong. But to the extent that they can turn it around and the business can be generating as much revenue as it was before on a massively lower cost basis, I'm very curious to know what the second order effects of that are. That is interesting, actually in business. We don't actually know that yet. Everything that is being discussed is just drama.…

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