Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
21 Feb 2023 Acquired LVMH
“Jobs supposedly said, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that people are still going to be drinking Dom Perignon champagne in 30 years.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 21 Feb 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- LVMH
Transcript context
…Yeah, lay that on us. Yeah. Bernard and Steve Jobs were friends. They got to know each other. I mentioned at the top of the episode that LVMH was a big influence on Steve Jobs and Apple. It was particularly around the advent of the Apple retail stores that Jobs sought out Bernard and LVMH to get his advice, and they became friends. Supposedly, Bernard tells the story that as they're getting to know each other through all this, one of them said to the other, this iPhone that you're launching, do you think people are going to be using it in 20–30 years? Jobs supposedly said, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that people are still going to be drinking Dom Perignon champagne in 30 years. I love that. All right, then the bet is on a bottle of Dom between you and I.…
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