Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“Why did the Chappel Brothers start making pet food? I don’t know. There is as little information as there is about the company and the family.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…I couldn’t find it either. I looked all over the place. I was like, why of all the things to buy did he buy a pet food company? Totally. Why did the Chappel Brothers start making pet food? I don’t know. There is as little information as there is about the company and the family. What we do have, we have about the chocolate business. We have almost no information about the pet business. Who are you going to ask? The Chappel Brothers are long dead, Mars isn’t going to tell you, but I’m so curious. How did Forrest get the idea, hey, I should go buy a dog food company when the market for dog food is new and unclear?…
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