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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Burger King comes up
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 1:14 Ted Seides Alex and Matt are lifelong friends who took an unconventional path out of business school, acquiring a 23 unit Burger King franchise in North Carolina that they scaled to 1100 locations before selling it back to the franchisor.
- ▶ 8:15 Alex Sloane But while we were there, we developed a thesis around franchise consolidation, except every franchise brand rejected us as franchisees, except for Burger King. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Alex Sloane Ultimately that KFC deal didn't work out, but what we realized while building value in the Burger King business
- ▶ 15:41 Ted Seides So before we dive into what happened with the Burger King franchises, what did you get out of going to HBS?
- ▶ 18:11 Alex Sloane It certainly was not a one-way street up and to the right from 23 Burger Kings to 1100 and the billion dollar sale. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 Ted Seides What did one Burger King franchise unit look like when you bought it, and what did you do to improve it? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:47 Alex Sloane About a year into building the Burger King business, we got a call from the former CEO of Burger King who took a job running another franchise system and said, I've watched what you guys have done, providing capital, technology, data… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Matt Perelman The first one being the Burger King business was ultimately a successful outcome, but I do think there is something to the, we don't get paid for a degree of difficulty.