John Collison
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6,048 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's like this total rinse and repeat of very established
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you know, companies and they know how to do that really well.
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And they're exceptional at it, by the way.
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They're almost like a quasi-private equity firm, but it's a different thing.
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Whereas I think the real R is how do you grow
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New initiatives internally through acquisitions and do that well.
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And there are there is prior art here.
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And you know, we always try to learn from that.
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And you know, Google's a good example of YouTube is now a $50 billion revenue business.
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And I believe they literally had no revenue.
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I mean, they were hemorrhaging money when uh when Google acquired them, but importantly, they had no revenue.
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Uh, and now it's like one of the crown jewels in Google.
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And actually, as you look across a huge amount.
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Of Google, um, it was all acquired in at this incredibly early stage.
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You know, there were acquisitions that became Google Maps and separately Google Earth and uh you know Google Docs and all this kind of stuff.
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Separately.
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That's it.
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Um there's actually some good acquired episodes on this uh recently.
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And I think that is a different skill to acquire things that are growing, you know, 10x and uh and build those businesses.
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And a big
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