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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired May 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:46:04 Ben Gilbert This is like Vanguard is Microsoft and Fidelity is Google, and they could launch Gmail and say that thing, that's your primary business.

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11 Ben Gilbert They launched a breakthrough email service in your browser with Gmail.
  • ▶ 9:49 Ben Gilbert Paul famously the inventor of Gmail.
  • ▶ 13:09 Ben Gilbert That's the first version of Gmail.
  • ▶ 15:39 Ben Gilbert You trying to tell me that Gmail is the first Ajax application?
  • ▶ 23:21 Ben Gilbert Anyone got any Gmail invites?
  • ▶ 27:05 Ben Gilbert How much credit for AdSense does Gmail get in discovering this?
  • ▶ 27:09 Ben Gilbert But it is safe to say that the idea of display ads that are content matched against your Gmail did contribute to the idea for the first version of AdSense, which are essentially the same thing, content matched ads just on a publisher…
  • ▶ 32:12 Ben Gilbert So, Gmail.
  • ▶ 44:05 Ben Gilbert Google said, based on the success we're seeing with Gmail, I bet we could do actual spreadsheets in the browser with real-time collaboration.
  • ▶ 1:21:55 Ben Gilbert You can kind of hear it through our episode of things like Gmail are good because then you're logged into Google, but there's not a giant lift.
  • ▶ 1:46:58 Ben Gilbert Okay, the one thing I will say here, David, is unlike all those other Google products, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, organizing the world's information, this is not organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible.
  • ▶ 2:24:15 Ben Gilbert Gmail was that way.
  • ▶ 3:05:29 Ben Gilbert And if you do that, then you get all the great Google services, all the apps, you know, you get the native Gmail and the native maps and all this great stuff we've written.
  • ▶ 3:12:15 Ben Gilbert Now, seven billion, not nothing, but still a far cry from Google's core business of ads from search, Gmail, and Maps.
  • ▶ 3:20:17 Ben Gilbert Gmail is massive, and it really is the only one in 2009, 10 at the company that owns identity, since it's the only Google property that you actually have to log into.
  • ▶ 3:37:56 Ben Gilbert Gmail.
  • ▶ 3:57:36 Ben Gilbert Gmail and Google Drive sort of advantage each other, so I think you can sort of subtract one of those out.
  • ▶ 3:59:28 Ben Gilbert Gmail.
  • ▶ 4:09:46 Ben Gilbert And also Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, Bill Koren, Jonathan Rochelle, Bradley Horowitz, John Henke, Ben Idelson, Isar Lipkowitz, and Ben Liebald.

Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 8 mentions

TSMC · Acquired Jan 21, 2025 · 1 mention

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 3 mentions

Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired Oct 4, 2022 · 1 mention

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 1 mention

Amazon.com · Acquired Aug 16, 2022 · 1 mention

American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired Jun 6, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:32 Ben Gilbert When a Washington Post journalist emails me, like, that's much more interesting than a cold email from someone with a Gmail address in most scenarios.

Standard Oil Part I · Acquired Sep 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:35:44 Ben Gilbert Email us at acquiredfm, uh, or acquiredfm at gmail.com or, uh, tweet at us at acquiredfm.
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