Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
4 Mar 2026 Acquired Costco
“There was a Deutsche Bank analyst that said, "It is better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder," which Costco management would say, yeah, that's literally like we've printed it.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 4 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Costco
Transcript context
…That's wild. It's crazy. Amazing management. All right, my last big playbook item is an old quote. There was a Deutsche Bank analyst that said, "It is better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder," which Costco management would say, yeah, that's literally like we've printed it. It's in a PDF on our website that's called our code of ethics. Yeah, do you read our annual report?…
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