Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
“Did they pick up the phone, call her, and say, do you want to make a bid? That, we don't know.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 23 Jan 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Taylor's current net worth is $550 million, just over half a billion. This is according to Forbes, at the time, Forbes thought it was probably around $360 million. The ultimate sale ends up happening for between $300 to $330 million. It would have been like most of her net worth [...], but she would have lined up financing just like everybody else lined up financing to do this. Did they pick up the phone, call her, and say, do you want to make a bid? That, we don't know. She claims that she was never offered the chance to outright buy either Big Machine or the masters themselves.…
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