Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I have a stat here. As it grew, I think in 2001, it was 5% of Sony's revenue. By 2014, its financial arm includes Sony Life, Sony Bank, a handful of other things, and a direct-to-consumer bank.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…They do. In Japan, it has become a pretty big life insurer. They eventually add the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, and it's active in all of those places today. It becomes a decent-sized business. In recent years, as other Sony businesses have stumbled, the life insurance business is contributing 50% plus of their operating cash flow. I have a stat here. As it grew, I think in 2001, it was 5% of Sony's revenue. By 2014, its financial arm includes Sony Life, Sony Bank, a handful of other things, and a direct-to-consumer bank. But I believe Life is the big business.…
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