Ben Gilbert

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37,360 appearances 65 recordings 5 series first heard Aug 2022 last heard 6d ago

Ben Gilbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TBPN · The AI Slowdown Debate | Nico Wittenborn, Scott Keogh, Mitchell Green, David Rosenthal & Ben Gilbert, Faraj Aalaei · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

You know, talking about home improvement. matched

Yes. matched

David and I have spent a lot of time. matched

You knew what was matched

So it's like a top five listener requested episode. matched

There's probably a lot of people thinking that's a boring company. matched

I don't know why they did it, but we would get emails every week, David, for the last two, three years saying, when are you going to do Home Depot? matched

Well, the most curious thing is how large it is. matched

I mean, every giant retailer does everything. matched

Walmart, Costco, Amazon, these are general retailers. matched

Home Depot is a specialty retailer, but somehow is worth fluctuating between $300 billion and $350 billion. matched

Because home improvement is just an absolutely enormous category. matched

And they own, depending on how you sort of frame the market, like 50% of the market. matched

And so they sort of, they picked the most interesting category to be in. matched

And then they built a business that had scale economy so they could negotiate the best prices, do the most volume. matched

And so they're this giant business in a giant category. matched

there too. matched

Monsters is matched

Yep, yep, yep. matched

Monsters number two. matched

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