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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“I think in any CPG business, it’s a scale economies business, but here we haven’t talked directly yet about how important shelf space is for candy.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…Anyone who’s serious about software should make their own hardware. Yes. Alan K for the win. The other reason that I think Forrest always had the dream of making his own chocolate is to be able to scale as large as possible. Like we’ve been saying all episode, this man so deeply knew in his bones how to operate in a scale economies market. By controlling all the production himself, that was just another step that enabled him to scale as big as possible. I think in any CPG business, it’s a scale economies business, but here we haven’t talked directly yet about how important shelf space is for candy. I was about to bring up supermarkets.…
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