Stirrings

3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2020 by Bill Creelman · said 16 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jan 13, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Creelman funded Stirrings with millions in personal debt instead of equity
“We never took outside capital at Stirrings. We borrowed like crazy. I mean, we were leveraged personally. You know, I had, you know, millions of dollars of notes that I was responsible for.”
Bill Creelman Jan 13, 2020 ▶ 20:22 Spindrift: Bill Creelman
Jan 13, 2020 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Creelman: Stirrings accelerated Diageo buyout in 2008 amid economic downturn
“What ended up happening is in 2008, the business and the partnership really kind of hadn't fulfilled the potential that we had all imagined, and there were a variety of factors for that. One was the economy changing, the other was sort of the fit between their…”
Bill Creelman Jan 13, 2020 ▶ 24:27 Spindrift: Bill Creelman
Jan 13, 2020 neutral
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Creelman: Stirrings structured Diageo deal as staged equity buyout
“The plumbing was that we ultimately ended up selling them, you know, a percentage of the business with the idea that we would then exit the business to them entirely pending kind of growth and trajectory of the business.”
Bill Creelman Jan 13, 2020 ▶ 23:25 Spindrift: Bill Creelman
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