Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I don't know how to think about that in terms of dollars then or dollars now, but it's thousands and thousands of dollars.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…Totally. I believe the first product cost ¥160,000 per recorder. You basically got to be selling to the government at that point in time. Right. I don't know how to think about that in terms of dollars then or dollars now, but it's thousands and thousands of dollars. Yup. The Morita family's initial investment in Sony was ¥190,000, and now they're selling their first product for ¥160,000.…
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