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David Rosenthal: uncertainty

7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY

“Now that he's been released from his lifetime contracts with the Navy, it's unclear if he actually needs to go back to the family business or not.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
7 Mar 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
SONY

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…We have been very fortunate in the place and time that we have grown up, for sure. Totally. Anyway, it works. The strategy works from Morita. He gets "purged" from his job, and he's a free agent again or sort of a free agent. I just have Taylor Swift on my mind and her story because of our recent episode, but literally, what happens next is like a Big Machine moment. Morita and Ibuka want to join up. He wants to go work at the company. Now that he's been released from his lifetime contracts with the Navy, it's unclear if he actually needs to go back to the family business or not. He had been released from the family business to go to the Navy, but now he feels like he needs to go back to his father and get his father's permission once again to leave the family. They also need some money, some capital in this new company that they're restarting together. You can tell that this is very important to Ibuka because Ibuka goes to the family dinner with Akio.…

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