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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
8 Oct 2017 Acquired Blue Bottle Coffee
“I mean, that is the question. And I think the question both for Blue Bottle and for us in terms of in this show like looking at what’s going on in the tech world, like Blue Bottle, we were joking in the beginning of the show that it is unapologetically not a tech company but this type of dynamic is rampant these days.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 8 Oct 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Blue Bottle Coffee
Transcript context
…Yeah. Okay. So here’s the question is, did that dichotomy just continue to grow and grow and grow where they were diametrically opposed to going public, they were taking on investors that needed them to go public or needed to have a big liquidity event and in a reasonable timeframe and like they sort of were rocking a hard place. Yeah. I mean, that is the question. And I think the question both for Blue Bottle and for us in terms of in this show like looking at what’s going on in the tech world, like Blue Bottle, we were joking in the beginning of the show that it is unapologetically not a tech company but this type of dynamic is rampant these days. I mean so many founders of tech companies have raised all this money and yet are adamant that they never want to be public and that a lot of them also say they don’t want to sell the company either. So, like, what are you going to do? Yeah. I mean, it seems like that would have been a nice thing to be aware of upon investing.…
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