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Raj Bhakta

12 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2024 by Raj Bhakta · across every show →

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Nov 29, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Raj Bhakta launched WhistlePig sourcing aged Canadian rye during US shortage
“Rye whiskey was just getting hot in the cocktail bars in San Francisco and New York and Chicago. Supplies were running out, and I found a great stash in Canada, and basically hustled the hell out of it”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 9:19 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2024
Raj Bhakta: M&A client bought Watkins-Johnson for $100M, IPO'd at $1B
“The guy buys the company for like a hundred million bucks and takes it public six months later for a billion.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 17:32 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Raj Bhakta offers top Vermont business recruits free campus tuition for children
“Come here if you're a top talent. We got great upside to offer. Your kids can go to the school for free. We got plenty of buildings.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 43:52 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Raj Bhakta: 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle is over-oaked and completely overhyped
“It's just over-oaked, and it's total hype, you know what I mean? Like, they go around, like, you can't get this, but the Pappy people are gonna be pissed off at me now.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 23:23 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024
Insight
Raj Bhakta: Blending just two percent completely transforms a spirit's flavor
“You can put in two or three percent and it'll change your flavor profile.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 22:46 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Raj Bhakta made NYT front page by riding an elephant into Texas
“So I did it, make national news, front page of the New York Times.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 6:20 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Raj Bhakta bought 85 percent of the world's remaining 19th-century spirit stocks
“19th century spirits, 85% bought. Hundred year plus spirits, 70%. And 50 year plus, almost half.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 19:39 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 positive
Opinion
Raj Bhakta: Civilization's survival depends entirely on large, God-fearing families
“The future of our civilization is large God fearing families, which if you practice the Catholic faith, because there's no jerking off and no sex before marriage, you're going to have.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 44:11 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024
Disclosure
Raj Bhakta bought an abandoned rural Vermont college campus during COVID-19
“So buy the place in, you know, COVID time, you ever want to go nuts, buy a college in the middle of nowhere and try to figure out what to do with it and have a bunch of people give you their ideas?”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 39:46 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Raj Bhakta claims his acquired vintage spirits inventory is worth $500 million
“You, if you put it in the bottle and sell it, it's worth about half a billion.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 19:58 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Raj Bhakta joined The Apprentice to escape his father's hotel business
“So I go on this reality TV show. It was my exit from the family business, right? I couldn't stand working with my dad. I love my dad. But we were, did not gel, you know, in the business world.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 29:26 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 29, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Raj Bhakta plans to redevelop Green Mountain College around seven classical virtues
“This was one of those things that I got and developed a vision over time for it to become a place of, I would call like fundamental education based on you know, seven virtues, faith, hope, love, Temperance, fortitude, justice, and prudence.”
Raj Bhakta Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 2:29 Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
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