Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
18 Nov 2024 Acquired IKEA
“I think so. I’m so glad we did this company. It was, in many ways, off the wall.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 18 Nov 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- IKEA
Transcript context
…Yeah. Super fascinating. All right. We have reached it, the quintessence of IKEA. I think so. I’m so glad we did this company. It was, in many ways, off the wall. It’s this private, weird structure. Nobody can invest in it. Totally. And I will tell you, for some reason I’m just not as fired up about it as compared to a Costco or an Hermes. But you study it, it’s really interesting, and it totally is n-of-1. I think the future to me is not quite as clear as some of these other companies. I think there are certainly a lot of question marks around what do they look like in an e-commerce world, a world that’s shifting to urbanization, and a world where they’re now a big company.…
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