Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…And Nimbus is already making out great. They went from being a middling broadcaster that had no sports rights to all of a sudden having all of the sports rights. And yes, they paid a lot of money for it, but they’re making a lot of money for it here too. Which is always Lalit’s argument of, I make money for everybody. And this just is how business in India gets done, or at least was how business in India gets done in this timeframe, call it 2008. Sure, from our US, American, and Western perspectives, we can look at this and be like, well what was actually the letter of the contract and shouldn’t there be a process here and doesn’t Nimbus have these rights? And you just want to deal in good faith. You just want to assume that if someone knows that they’re about to launch a huge new cricket league that’s not included in your contract and you’re operating under the idea that it is included in your contract, what’s in the contract doesn’t matter as much as what you both feel like you’re agreeing to. It’s a shame that if what you’re relying on is, well the letter of the contract says this, you know? Exactly.…

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