The Ledger
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Flatt: Brookfield produces just under half of global car starter batteries
“Look, our we make just under half of the car batteries.”
Flatt: Brookfield is building $13B in power plants for Microsoft
“We're building from Microsoft thirteen billion dollars of power plants.”
Flatt: Brookfield is building a $32B fabrication plant with Intel
“We're building with Intel a thirty two billion dollar fabrication plant in Arizona.”
Flatt: Brookfield uses osmotic learning and has no private offices
“In general, we don't do training. Quote, unquote. But every day, every single person in this organization is learning. And it's a learned by osmosis process. We have open plan in the place, including myself, never had an office and people talk to one another a…”
Flatt: Brookfield owns a substantial portion of India's telecom towers
“We own all of the telecom towers, not all, but we own a very substantial portion of the telecom towers in India. They deliver all the phone and wireless infrastructure. To many individuals in India, and that was originally built by Reliance Industries Geo. We …”
Flatt: Brookfield successfully took a $6B unindexed shipping company private
“So we took a large container shipping company private. It had one analyst and nobody following it. It fit in no indexes. It was a six billion dollar company. And we took it private and it's been an exceptional investment.”
Flatt: All Brookfield Balance Sheet Debt Is Single-Asset Financing
“All of our financing is asset by asset by asset by asset or business by business by business by business. So any debt that we accumulate onto our consolidated balance sheet is just the accumulation of a whole bunch of single asset financings.”
Flatt: Brookfield partners cannot pass controlling shares to family members
“When we leave the partnership, our shares that if you're an owner or controller of the partnership, they go away, they go on to somebody else. So nobody's family will ever will ever be part of this partnership. It's a meritocracy.”
Flatt: Brookfield's worst mistakes happen when pushing into adjacent unfamiliar areas
“Sometimes we're pushing Out into areas which are adjunct to what we do, and we probably shouldn't have. We really didn't know what we were doing. And not often does it happen, but once in a while.”
Flatt: Managing $1T prevents Brookfield from investing in small countries
“Like, we can't have small countries, just not because they're not good, they're not a good place to invest, it's just not meaningful to us. When you have a trillion dollars things, The benefit or the, or the- Drawback. Yeah, the drawback is that is that you ca…”