The Ledger

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Gilbert: Almost all foundation model leaders worked at Google in 2015–2016
“Everyone, almost everyone doing interesting things in foundational model companies at the leadership level. You can trace a lineage back to Google. And almost all of them were there, twenty-fifteen, twenty-sixteen.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 22:07 Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
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Gilbert: Acquired had about 400 listeners by end of year one
“And I think by the end of year one, we had about 400 listeners.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 3:05 Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Larry Ellison required page-by-page rebuttal space in his biography
“So software is the book, sort of the canonical biography on Larry Ellison or Oracle, and his condition for writing the book was that every single page he would get space allotted to him to like effectively rebuttal.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 36:14 Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
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