Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“I bet it helped pull in the bank debt because I doubt Mars had significant banking relationships going into this, because they didn’t have any debt.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…You think getting Berkshire was what they used to be able to pull in the bank debt. I bet it helped pull in the bank debt because I doubt Mars had significant banking relationships going into this, because they didn’t have any debt. No. In fact, they classically never do acquisitions with outside banks. They’re obsessed with using only their own cash.…
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