Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I think we're trying to store up as much potential energy in Acquired as we can rather than anytime there's a way to make it show up on the financial statements, like letting out the pressure and being like, yup, second show, yup, more ads, yup, dynamic ads from an ad network.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Yes. They aren't sparkling there in front of your eyes anyway. I think we're trying to store up as much potential energy in Acquired as we can rather than anytime there's a way to make it show up on the financial statements, like letting out the pressure and being like, yup, second show, yup, more ads, yup, dynamic ads from an ad network. You can say yes to all these things and you can sugar high the current profits, or you can try to figure out how to store up as much potential energy as you can. I think once you hit the point in life where money won't make you any happier, then there's actually not a point to letting any of that potential energy out. It just creates goodwill for everyone, most principally, selfishly yourself to keep it bottled. Right. How do we get on that? From founder control. That was founder control. That's number five. Number six.…
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