Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
27 Apr 2016 Acquired Virgin America
“Very true. I think that’s like the typical low end disruption case study. That’s a great business and a really interesting story on its own.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 27 Apr 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Virgin America
Transcript context
…Which itself started as a little guy. Very true. I think that’s like the typical low end disruption case study. That’s a great business and a really interesting story on its own. But, I mean, clearly, Alaska in trying to compete, there’s a limited number of airlines that it could buy. JetBlue clearly identified the same opportunity and the result is this very, very inflated purchase. Yeah. So when the dust clears and all is said and done, basically the total enterprise value of the deal ends up being about $4 billion, if you include the debt and the aircraft leases that Virgin had.…
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