Ben Gilbert: belief

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…I really do think that there is an element too of the successive generations, they apprentice in the ateliers with their hands. I think there is an element of that. They also apprentice, especially these days on the business side too. Axel talks, all the time, about dinner table conversations between his uncle, Jean-Louis, who we're about to talk about now, who is the fifth generation CEO of Hermes and his mother, who was head of production at the dinner table growing up. You can't not absorb that. I think that's the flip side of nepotism, which makes it such a challenging topic. On the one hand, obviously limiting the universe of talent. On the other hand, how do you replicate those dinner table conversations? It's funny. I called it a sixth sense. I think the right way to describe it is actually a je ne sais quoi about what you absorb from those. Totally. Okay, Jean-Louis, the fifth generation. The consultants are saying, hey, go be like Gucci.…

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