Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I don't have the exact dates here, but even by the early 2000s, the Morita family still, I believe, owned about 10% of Sony.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…You can tell that this is very important to Ibuka because Ibuka goes to the family dinner with Akio. Yes, they both get on the train. They go to Nagoya, they have a family dinner. They ask for Akio's father's blessing for him to become partners with Ibuka in this new venture. They get the blessing and ¥190,000 investment in the new startup company. Over the next couple of years, the Morita family would put a little more money in overtime and eventually own 17% of the company. I don't have the exact dates here, but even by the early 2000s, the Morita family still, I believe, owned about 10% of Sony. Yes. As of 1999, the family controls a 10% share, which at the time was worth roughly $5 billion.…
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