Michael Lewis: belief

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…The important things in the world probably should be big publicly traded corporations, but there's these amazing, wonderful things you can create by being boutique and maintaining control. I think there's an argument to be made that in any industry where they're both private and public companies. The private companies end up being much better run. Mostly bad things happen when companies go public and certainly less pleasant. Public or private, your point is founder control. There's also just a personal choice element. Last year, we had a, existential crisis is way too dramatic, but I think something that was on our minds was like, are we being wussies? We're not doing Hollywood. We're not adding more shows. We're not building an enterprise.…

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