Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedSpeaker unverified: uncertainty
27 Sept 2016 Acquired Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
“We’re obsessed with this sort of self-driving car. That’s why we decided to redhead that Apple-McLaren story even when McLaren later came out and denied it, which by the way, as sort of a side topic, they didn’t have to deny that so I don’t know why they publicly denied it because based on our sourcing, they at least had conversations with Apple.”
— Speaker unverified
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Speaker unverified
- Attribution
- Not verified from this transcript
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 27 Sept 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Bloomberg probably covered that deal. Probably not Chariot. Yeah. We’re obsessed with this sort of self-driving car. That’s why we decided to redhead that Apple-McLaren story even when McLaren later came out and denied it, which by the way, as sort of a side topic, they didn’t have to deny that so I don’t know why they publicly denied it because based on our sourcing, they at least had conversations with Apple. They phrased that “we’re not in talks right now.” So I’m not really sure why they denied it rather than just stayed silent. But whatever, I’m sure they had their own reasoning for doing that. It’s interesting. Did it positively affect them because then the rumors seriously negatively affected Apple stock?…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.