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Ben Gilbert: belief

10 May 2017 Acquired BAMTech, Disney and "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of”

“I was kind of pushing for like well, I think the thing that’s fairly well understood is the spinout and it’s highly speculative to talk about the future purchase.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 May 2017
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yeah. All right, should we grade it? Yeah. So listeners, David and I were having a debate before this show over iMessage of whether this episode was going to be grading the spinout or grading Disney’s minority investment with the option to buy a majority share later. I was kind of pushing for like well, I think the thing that’s fairly well understood is the spinout and it’s highly speculative to talk about the future purchase. But, like the spinout is so clearly like David and I were like a no-brainer, like that’s a great decision. Why wouldn’t they do that? On the part of Major League Baseball to spin it out.…

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