Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
“Fast-forwarding all the way to today, UMGs owners are, of course, it's publicly traded, but Vivendi still owns 10% of it.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 23 Jan 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I didn't realize that they were still together at that point in time. I thought they had already been split out. Yeah, totally crazy. Fast-forwarding all the way to today, UMGs owners are, of course, it's publicly traded, but Vivendi still owns 10% of it. Vincent Bollore, I don't know, I'm not familiar with that, owns 18%. Pershing Square Holdings owns 10%, as the famous Bill Ackman's recent don't call it a SPAC activity. Do you know who owns 20% of UMG that we have done an Acquired episode on and is a big part of Acquired lore? Tencent?…
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