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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:46 Ben Gilbert and I look it up in the Kindle book and I figure out like how I want to explain the connection that I just learned on air.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:57:02 Ben Gilbert There's no Kindles or anything available.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:28 Ben Gilbert And so it's not like there's audio books and Kindle books that we could do our normal amount of research on.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:56 David Senra as “Kindle”
- ▶ 3:08:15 David Senra The Kindle and the audiobook.
- ▶ 3:08:19 Ben Gilbert By the way, I own the audiobook and the Kindle of almost every book that I own.
- ▶ 3:08:26 Ben Gilbert I don't own that many Kindle books.
- ▶ 3:08:46 Ben Gilbert And then I go back in the Kindle and I search for the actual quote and like pull out the data to be able to use it in the episodes.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:45:35 David Rosenthal I use a Kindle Oasis that I use for reading fiction at home, but when I travel, I no longer bring the Kindle Oasis, and I use this as a Kindle.
- ▶ 1:45:45 Ben Gilbert I find, like, for, uh, for outdoor stuff, you can't beat the Kindle.
- ▶ 1:45:58 David Rosenthal When going to the beach, I'll still bring the Kindle.
- ▶ 1:46:15 Ben Gilbert As a college graduation gift, my uncle got me the 70 dollar Kindle.
- ▶ 1:46:21 Ben Gilbert And that is still the Kindle that I use and take on vacation.
- ▶ 1:46:43 Ben Gilbert My Kindle is actually worthless in bed, because you need to light it with a.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:31 Ben Thompson So the book publishers, Amazon, Kindle, things along those lines, I was responsible for lifestyle.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 6:23 Ben Gilbert There's no Kindle.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 8:56 David Rosenthal Well, we left off the amazon.com episode in 2007 with the sort of Sony PlayStation like coda of the Kindle story and the new chapter.
- ▶ 9:10 David Rosenthal One might say that it seemed at the time to the outside world that Amazon was opening as a true technology company with the Kindle.
- ▶ 21:00 David Rosenthal Remember from the Kindle Coda vignette, how, uh, it was one of those crazy stories about who was responsible for the inspiration for the Kindle.
- ▶ 21:31 Ben Gilbert And of course, that would be a few years later and Amazon would create the Kindle internally.
- ▶ 1:49:32 Ben Gilbert It had a Kindle on it, so it would actually display a custom shipping thing, and you could track it all the way back, and it would arrive in the Amazon data center, and they would automatically, it was like tamper-proof, bullet-proof, it…
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:01:41 David Rosenthal And that's the story of the Kindle.
- ▶ 3:01:49 Ben Gilbert But I'm curious if you did any analysis at all on what does Kindle allow them to do that they otherwise might have lost market leadership on or something like that.
- ▶ 3:02:12 David Rosenthal And today I love Kindle.
- ▶ 3:02:14 David Rosenthal My Kindle is one of my favorite things in the whole world.
- ▶ 3:02:18 David Rosenthal But I think probably the way most people consume most content on Kindle is apps on other devices.
- ▶ 3:02:25 David Rosenthal So, the Kindle story.
- ▶ 3:02:32 Ben Gilbert Oh, I could not believe the people's names behind the original Kindle Inception.
- ▶ 3:02:48 David Rosenthal I bet very few of you know who inspired the idea for Jeff and Amazon to pursue the Kindle.
- ▶ 3:02:58 Ben Gilbert So when we say inspired, they started an independent company doing Kindle-like things, e-reader things before.
- ▶ 3:03:42 David Rosenthal Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpening inspired Jeff Bezos and Amazon to build the Kindle.
- ▶ 3:11:18 David Rosenthal I mean, there were, gosh, go back and look at photos of, oh, we'll look to some of the sources of that original Kindle that launched.
- ▶ 3:11:38 David Rosenthal Kindle.
- ▶ 3:13:10 David Rosenthal So that, I mean, the Kindle itself, incredible story, but then that leads to Fire tablets, Echoes, the lady who lives in your Echo, Fire TV, Prime Video, Ring, Eero, like all this stuff, and freaking Audible.
- ▶ 3:13:28 David Rosenthal Right after the Kindle launch, they buy Audible.
- ▶ 3:14:13 Ben Gilbert So we've got Kindle, we've got Audible.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 33:53 David Rosenthal It didn't matter if the Nook hardware was better than the Kindle or not.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:21 Packy McCormick And it is a glorified Kindle for me.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 7:06 David Rosenthal Go get this book in your preferred, you know, hardcover Kindle.