Ben Gilbert
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Bell Labs, that's one that if I saw it, I'd say, yes, I want to listen to it.
You could kind of do it as the history of the transistor, but then you miss all these other things like radar and... Yeah, there's so much stuff that came out of Bell.
Did you do Xerox PARC?
No, no, but similar.
No, I'm trying to think.
That's an interesting... I'm stealing this idea from our friend Hamilton Helmer, but he brought up this idea in conversation with us that there is a positive benefit to monopolies because they create the cash flows that fund these sorts of boondoggle basic research.
a lot of the most important technologies that move society forward.
You need some waste.
And like, boy, does Google have that.
I mean, their last quarter was their first $100 billion quarter ever.
And that's how they fund, you know, the next Gemini.