David Rosenthal: prediction

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…Yes. It was Qualcomm, by the way. Ah, Qualcomm. Here’s Lalit’s quote on how the auction comes about. “I got the idea of the player auction because our family company had a partnership with Sotheby’s Auction House in India, where you offer the item to the highest bidder. What’s wrong with that? Great transparency. I also knew it would be the talk of the town. Extremely controversial. That was a central part of my strategy.” Then he says in a different quote, “Our number one pillar, I would call it the pillar of the IPL, was that we needed to have a department called controversy. Controversy allows us to get front page news. If you’re controversial, good or bad, doesn’t matter. As long as people talk about us, they hate us, they like us, great, no problem. They want to talk about us. Let them talk about us and we don’t clarify anything. I love it.…

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