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Ben Gilbert: preference

29 Aug 2016 Acquired Jet

“Obviously, we’re huge fans of Amazon here so I’m really trying to take off my “Amazon’s going to take over the world” hat when looking at this thing because I think more and more, even over the past year with Amazon’s tremendous growth and just having a lot more faith in their long-term plan, I just start evaluating things as are they really going to compete with Amazon?”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
preference
Recorded
29 Aug 2016
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Jet

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…Yeah, right near in the middle of Amazon’s campus. Obviously, we’re huge fans of Amazon here so I’m really trying to take off my “Amazon’s going to take over the world” hat when looking at this thing because I think more and more, even over the past year with Amazon’s tremendous growth and just having a lot more faith in their long-term plan, I just start evaluating things as are they really going to compete with Amazon? I think that’s a pretty fair assessment but in looking at Jet – They’re like the iterations of Microsoft to like, you know, in the ‘90s. You know, any company that was trying to raise venture capital. The first question would be like, “Well, what are you going to do when Microsoft starts competing with you?”…

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