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Ben Gilbert: belief

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“Disney. I think I have that right. He was the one who was kind of agitating on the board and the CEO transition if you've read The Ride of a Lifetime.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…There's no direct connection anymore. This is more just coincidence, but like, wow. It's Roy E. Disney, which is the son of Roy O. Disney. I think I have that right. He was the one who was kind of agitating on the board and the CEO transition if you've read The Ride of a Lifetime. Interestingly enough, they did this without talking to Taylor. If I were doing diligence on an asset where someone has announced that they intend to, on a warpath, devalue the thing that I'm buying, especially when I'm buying it at an appreciation to where it was most recently marked in the last year, I would probably call that artist and say like, should we do this deal? What would you do if we did this deal? Can we find a way to work together?…

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