Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Yes. Maybe this is speculating a little bit and industries could come in here, but I think also it works both ways. I think if you're going to have a really successful creative products company, the creative leaders need to understand business and respect business, and the business leaders need to understand creative and respect creative. You're right. There's totally an invention in that leadership structure. If you look at Tom Ford and Dom De Sole, that is the right structure to lead a house. It is interesting, when you come from this small family-owned heritage of an artisan making something that's a small local business to turning it into a global brand, you really do need that pairing of professional manager with professional creator. Yup, totally. It's super telling that Tom Ford was in all the banker meetings. We didn't talk to him, but I bet Domenico was like, he's my partner, he's going to be there.…

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