Changed Positions
Same person, same subject, opposite position, months or years apart. Both tapes, side by side. Reversed means no acknowledgement of the change was found; revised means the speaker acknowledged it or new facts explain it. The note on each pair says which.
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Paquette stated in 2018 that his company's focus was organic growth and "not acquisition," but later detailed acquiring two companies.
Ross Paquette Is Strongly Against Raising Venture Capital
“It wasn't like we had to go out and raise capital. I'm very much against that process. The focus has always been to just, you know, kind of grow by a customer acquisition, not acquisition.”
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Maropost acquired Neto in 2020 and Retail Express in 2021
“So we acquired a company out of Australia called Neato back at the end of. 20 20. So right in the thick of COVID. And then acquired another coincidentally Australian business as well at the end of 2021. Clearly we have an affinity for Christmas deals. And that…”