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Assertion Contradicted
Most of the world's richest people built wealth through acquisitions
“Most of the richest people in the world Are there through acquisitions? Some version of buying and selling small companies or private equity deals.”
Codie Sanchez Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 2:04 Why All Entrepreneurs Are Contrarians w/ Codie Sanchez
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Codie Sanchez predicts a double-dip recession with rising inflation
“Well, I think we're in the first part of a recession. That'll probably be a double-dip recession and we'll actually see inflation come back up again. That's my assertion.”
Codie Sanchez Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 26:57 How Codie Sanchez Built a $50 Million Portfolio of Boring Businesses, and the #1 Skill to Learn in a Recession
Assertion Supported
Sitting next to underperformers cuts individual performance by 30%
“It was basically this research showing that if you sit next to top performers, they increase your performance by on average, 15% as evidenced by a big study across multiple Years and hundreds of employees. And if you sit next to an underperformer, they decreas…”
Codie Sanchez Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 7:53 Why All Entrepreneurs Are Contrarians w/ Codie Sanchez
Assertion Contradicted
Codie Sanchez: Almost no cannabis companies actually own their real estate
“We used to do that a ton in cannabis, like pretty much no cannabis company owns their land. They had to buy the land because nobody would Lease to them, and then they do a sale lease back back to a third party that would do it.”
Codie Sanchez Apr 11, 2022 ▶ 12:33 All You Need to Know to Buy a “Boring” Business
Assertion Contradicted
Sanchez: MrBeast's Feastables is now a $100M company
“The Feastables, the chocolates or whatever that Mr. Beast has done, when they originally told me about that, I was like, oh God, that's an awful business. Who eats like a whole chocolate bar anyway? And now it's like a hundred million dollar company, which is …”
Codie Sanchez Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 30:27 How Codie Sanchez Built a $50 Million Portfolio of Boring Businesses, and the #1 Skill to Learn in a Recession
Assertion Supported
Sanchez: Reese Witherspoon sold Hello Sunshine for $900 million
“Reese Witherspoon just sold the business for nine hundred million dollars, her Hello Sunshine company.”
Codie Sanchez Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 33:42 How Codie Sanchez Built a $50 Million Portfolio of Boring Businesses, and the #1 Skill to Learn in a Recession
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