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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 1:15 Ben Gilbert Maps that were far superior to the current state of the art.
  • ▶ 34:13 Ben Gilbert And Maps is squarely in the middle of that.
  • ▶ 36:26 Ben Gilbert I thought that, and just last night, I realized you can still go to earth.google.com and get a completely different three-d experience than Google Maps.
  • ▶ 37:28 Ben Gilbert Do you want to know my favorite Easter egg for the first day launch of Google Maps?
  • ▶ 37:33 Ben Gilbert When you loaded up maps.google.com, do you know what visually you saw?
  • ▶ 39:14 Ben Gilbert All this existed because Google Maps existed.
  • ▶ 41:33 Ben Gilbert But today, Maps has over two billion active users this year.
  • ▶ 41:37 Ben Gilbert They don't break out revenue, but estimates are that Maps does well over five billion in revenue, maybe even ten billion in revenue.
  • ▶ 41:47 Ben Gilbert You see recommended places to go around you all the time whenever you open Google Maps now that are sponsored ads, just like on Google Search.
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 2:41:45 Ben Gilbert There is a YouTube app and a Maps app, both of which are Google services.
  • ▶ 3:05:05 Ben Gilbert And there's a very clever arrangement where you can just have the Android open source project, and you can build your own mobile phone, and, you know, you can launch it, and you don't have our app store, and you don't have to default to…
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 3:37:57 Ben Gilbert Maps.
  • ▶ 3:51:23 Ben Gilbert Famously, I mean, that, that run in the 2010, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google Groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger, they bought Applied Semantics with the…
  • ▶ 3:57:45 Ben Gilbert Maps is advantaged by Android.
  • ▶ 3:57:46 Ben Gilbert They ship a whole lot of maps, so, but probably whatever the phone was would have a great Google Maps app.
  • ▶ 3:59:36 Ben Gilbert You look at maps and docs with real-time collaboration.

Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired Dec 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:35:11 Ben Gilbert The recent factory that they built to make M&Ms, and it's like a corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility, and there's a bunch of pictures on Google Maps of the exterior and interior, just like you would expect from anything…

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48:14 Ben Gilbert I remember Facebook events, like, when you look at the page, it was a Bing map, not a Google map, that always, like, felt emblematic of the partnership to me.
  • ▶ 5:00:38 Ben Gilbert And they also use Google Maps, and you know, you can just kind of gather data across apps.

Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired May 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

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