Ben Gilbert: belief

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…A striking thing about the kids in the family is that, at least most, if not all of them doesn't seem like they were gifted these positions. They came up through the business and "earned" it, but earned their positions in much the same way that Bernard did in his own family company. Alexandria is a great example. He went to Polytechnique. Those are blind admissions tests. I also think it's funny. A lot of the background of a lot of the people that we've talked about on this episode, people won't really be familiar with. If you look at Alexandre's resume, it looks like a lot of yours, listeners. I think that's a really interesting thing to point out. He went to college for computer science, he worked in McKinsey, and he worked at KKR before going into the family business. It is interesting how much he has weaved into the American tech and business world. All right, enough about the succession stuff for now and Alexandre. I actually think this place of leaving it with Tiffany and starting to speculate on the future is the right place to catch us up to now for the history and facts. Let's go into the analysis section. There's a lot of analysis to do on this company. I'm pumped about it. This is going to be so fun.…

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