David Rosenthal
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40,888 appearances
64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
David Rosenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What?
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Finally get their clock cleaned by
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I think it was that they combined Pat Farah's aggressiveness that he put together at HomeCo with Bernie and Arthur's operations and finance genius to just barely make it all work.
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selling the dream to their suppliers,
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All the debt
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American enterprise system here.
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The worst thing that happens if it doesn't work is you declare bankruptcy and like Pat Farah, you go join the next thing.
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Yes.
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So I think this is actually the perfect place to really talk about what the model is and why here now we're in the late 1980s.
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There is capital available.
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It's the go-go 1980s.
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Why are copycats not emerging well-funded with a lot of capital to just come eat their lunch and do this too?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So, yes, exactly.
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This did happen.
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A lot of capital rushed into the space trying to do this.
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Yeah, Builder's Square, Home Club, Home Quarters Warehouse, Mr. Howe Warehouse.
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These are all copycats spun up in the 1980s.
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None of them are around today.
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Right.
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