Raj Bhakta: M&A client bought Watkins-Johnson for $100M, IPO'd at $1B
Raj Bhakta · Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale · Nov 29, 2024 · at 17:32
Raj Bhakta, founder of WhistlePig Whiskey, recalls his early career in 1999 as an analyst working on a semiconductor acquisition in Palo Alto during the dot-com boom.
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“The guy buys the company for like a hundred million bucks and takes it public six months later for a billion.”
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