Eric Franklin
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But I don't think we'll probably sell until we probably quadruple the revenue.
But again, you're not looking for a standard buyer.
You're looking for a strategic buyer.
So as we start to do this for Fox, Rupert Murdoch can wake up one day and says, this differentiates my entire business.
I want to own this thing and pay more than just your typical multiple against it.
Is that the plan?
Of course, strategically, well, him and 100 other people that were in various phases of working with.
And by the way, and a lot of them are consultant types, not a lot, but a half a dozen are the former president of Warner Europe, the former president of Warner APAC, the former president of Warner Latin America, who were huge money earners and now go out and sell to their previous clients.
And they get paid on a percentage of revenue for a long term.
So if they bring in Channel 4 in the UK, they're getting compensated for quite a long period of time because you can't afford to hire salespeople like that.
Last business book that I read, didn't.
No, because I do this from 6 a.m.
I finished last night with Disney Hotstar in India at 1045.
So then I crashed and got on the phone with my team in Paris this morning.
Well, I...
rather than reading, you know, the books you're talking about, I'm a voracious reader and I read everything, primarily addicted to the Apple newsfeed and all day long to the four people who helped me prospect, I'm sending them articles and stories and so on.
So the answer is, you know,
I look at everyone, but it's not like, ooh, Elon Musk, I'm in love with him or something like that.
I'm looking for anything that's interesting.
And then what we do is write them letters and a huge percentage say, I'd like to know more.