Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
25 Jun 2020 Acquired Oprah (Harpo Studios)
“In this one, we’re grading how good of a use of $16 million for Oprah to buy out the rights for the show. I don't know if it’s an A or A+.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 25 Jun 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Oprah (Harpo Studios)
Transcript context
…Amazon’s a public company. It’s 80% not owned by Jeff Bezos. Right. Again, for folks who are newer to the show, we basically grade how good of a use of capital was for big co to buy a little co and compared to everything else they have done with it. In this one, we’re grading how good of a use of $16 million for Oprah to buy out the rights for the show. I don't know if it’s an A or A+. At an absolute dollar return, it can’t possibly be an A+, but on a multiple perspective, it might be up there. It’s clearly not an A or A+. We can’t decide which until a transaction like we just talked about happened. Once that happens, then we can say $16 million back 1988, what’s the IRR on that from that point in time to the 80% of the value that Oprah realizes from the sale of Harpo, if and when that should happen.…
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