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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“I’m just purely speculating, but I suspect profit contribution–wise, they’re at least equal, if not bigger on the candy side.”
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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
…That is the shape of the business today. You’ve got a pet business masquerading as a candy business, and we continued to perpetrate that narrative. Obviously the pet business, huge, bigger in revenue, and I’m sure very, very large in profits as well. I don’t know. I’m just purely speculating, but I suspect profit contribution–wise, they’re at least equal, if not bigger on the candy side. I could be totally wrong. I don’t know. I don’t know the economics of pet hospitals. I would love to know that. If your last name is Mars, please reach out or join us in the Slack, acquired.fm/slack. We’d love to hear from you. Power?…
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