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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

IKEA (Audio) · Acquired Nov 18, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:15:04 Ben Gilbert I just recently bought the new super-thin eleven-inch iPad Pro.
  • ▶ 3:15:35 Ben Gilbert In fact, in particular, for each of these episodes now, I read the Worldly Partners research on the company we're covering from a friend of the show, Arvind, and I was able to read the whole thing, take it in, in a much more, like,…
  • ▶ 3:16:08 Ben Gilbert This iPad is like so great.
  • ▶ 3:16:49 Ben Gilbert I wish it had the iPad Pro's screen.

Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired Jul 22, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25:01 Ben Gilbert So, but you're right, the iPad coming out really validates, whoa, big tablets with multi-touch actually might be the computing paradigm for the future,
  • ▶ 3:26:04 Ben Gilbert Now, there was a little bit of a folly in believing that the iPad was the PC of the future.
  • ▶ 3:26:09 Ben Gilbert Standing here today, we all can look at unit sales and realize, oh, the iPad was not the PC of the future.
  • ▶ 3:26:16 Ben Gilbert It had its place, but it did not in any way replace PCs
  • ▶ 3:32:41 Ben Gilbert It has the YouTube videos cached, it, you know, does whatever, but it just turns into an iPad with an iOS UI.
  • ▶ 3:32:54 Ben Gilbert I travel with an iPhone and an iPad and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two.
  • ▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.
  • ▶ 3:58:53 Ben Gilbert Now, with all this hindsight, I understand why you wouldn't make the decision when you feel like the iPad could be the end of you.

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:54 Ben Gilbert Making hardware, gaming systems, gaming studios, Windows apps, iPad apps, Mac apps, operating systems, mobile operating systems, MP three players, search engines, cloud computing, services on cloud computing, programming languages,…

Hermès (Audio) · Acquired Feb 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:36:28 Ben Gilbert Whatever salespeople we hire to work at those stores, they're gonna sell the same iPhones and iPads that we have everywhere else at every other store.

Costco (Audio) · Acquired Aug 21, 2023 · 1 mention

Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired Dec 19, 2022 · 6 mentions

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

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired May 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:29 Ben Gilbert I like prepared things, and I should read them off my iPad here, but the only thought that can occur to me right now is how different this is than

Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired Feb 10, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 34:31 Ben Gilbert The original vision actually was a connect your own iPad vision.
  • ▶ 51:49 Ben Gilbert If you, if you haven't ridden the Peloton, like, why can't I just mount an iPad on an old, uh, iPad on an old exercise bike?
  • ▶ 51:55 Ben Gilbert The biggest difference is that when the bike is not feeding information into whatever device you're using, you know, your iPad or something, it doesn't know what the resistance is and it doesn't know what your cadence is.
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