Ben Weprin
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2024 by Ben Weprin · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Weprin: Graduate Hotels was sold due to expensive COVID survival debt
“And this was actually, you know, why we ended up selling graduate was we took a, you know, a very large, expensive loan out during COVID to, you know, continue to execute, to deliver the projects, continue to pay our mortgages, and, you know, we made it throug…”
Sep 23, 2024 positive
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Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024 bullish
Sep 23, 2024 bullish
Weprin: Recessions create major opportunities for luxury hotel brands
“I also think there's a huge opportunity for this brand in a recession to actually, you know, acquire assets, or to, you know, build the portfolio of operational, because they're, you know, these smaller hotels, if they're in trouble, they could use distributio…”
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Weprin: Graduate Hotels vertically integrated ownership, operations, and branding
“We were going to become vertically integrated. We're going to own the hotel. We were going to operate the hotel. And we were going to brand the hotel. So We controlled the full customer journey and experience everything that a customer would touch, see, feel w…”
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024 neutral
Sep 23, 2024 positive
Weprin: Scaling hospitality requires thinking smaller to evoke local nostalgia
“The challenge as you grew bigger was to think smaller and find more stories and more history and more nostalgia and create, you know, we get this term nostalgia. You create a new memory in an old place that you'd already been that felt familiar.”