Ben Gilbert

Meta, Rolex, Trader Joe's.

Ikea.

Yeah.

Like stay private, be family owned.

The important things in the world probably should be big publicly traded corporations.

But there's these amazing, wonderful things you can create by being boutique and maintaining control.

We're not doing Hollywood.

What triggered this?

Are we being wussies?

We were currently researching Bell Labs.

And I think I felt like we were chasing this esoteric-ness.

And we sort of expected his comment to be like, dream bigger.

And they're successful prisons.

But they sort of go hand in hand.

Cheap growth is covering the current thing.

I've been toying with this idea of stored potential energy, that great businesses have a stored potential energy that you can't see in the current financials.

Great people have that, too.

And they're not presented in the obvious markers.

And I think we're trying to store up as much potential energy and acquire it as we can rather than any time there's a way to make it show up on the financial statements, sort of like letting out the pressure and being like, yup, second show.

Yup, more ads.