Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…My sworn enemy from here onwards. And thus begins a 10–15 year journey that is not just the ultimate revenge play by Lalit on Rupert, but accidentally along the way starts the biggest sports entrepreneurial story phenomenon that has ever existed. Yup. Crazy. Out of this feud. I will say more than any other episode that we’ve done, it seems like every element of this has two completely different sides to the story, both of which the leaders of that side dig in and maintain their side. In most companies we study, there becomes one canonical truth and it’s mostly written by the victors. But in the history of the IPL and especially with Lalit Modi, there are always two completely different stories representing how it went, and nobody ever gives an inch on either side of them. They just say, oh, that’s all lies. That never happened. No way did that ever happen. Zero truth to that. So it is a little bit difficult to tease out what actually did happen given there is no convergence of story. This is probably the right moment to say a word about the nature of doing business in India, at least at this point in time.…

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