Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
21 Jun 2017 Acquired Whole Foods Market
“No, but I think what the deal is, is I think that that Walmart through Jet is really just trying to buy a bunch of these sort of smaller e-commerce companies that people love and figure out, you know, can they just own a portfolio of these things.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 21 Jun 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Whole Foods Market
Transcript context
…Doesn’t seem like a Target customer fit to me. No, but I think what the deal is, is I think that that Walmart through Jet is really just trying to buy a bunch of these sort of smaller e-commerce companies that people love and figure out, you know, can they just own a portfolio of these things. Maybe not sell them in Walmart or something like that but, you know, if the goal was to go around and buy a bunch of these like Casper and Harry’s and sort of internet and now Warby Parker, like those sorts of businesses, like does it make sense for Walmart to own a big portfolio of those? I don’t know but I don’t think this was... like this wasn’t a huge outcome for Bonobos. No. I mean, given how long the company was around and how much money there is. But, you know, nice exit.…
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