118- Amazon, Whole Foods & Selling a Company You Love
InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast
Phil Town & Danielle Town
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town and |
| 0:08.9 | we're here for the invested podcast welcome back from the 4th of July. |
| 0:13.0 | So we're running... |
| 0:15.0 | That's right. |
| 0:16.0 | Dad, you didn't give any spiel on what the invested podcast is about. |
| 0:20.0 | I really should because who knows who's jumping into this first right? |
| 0:25.8 | I just really enjoy your little like impromptu spiel every time. I kind of miss it. |
| 0:31.6 | Especially in front of this one. |
| 0:33.2 | We're talking about how to invest the way Warren Buffett |
| 0:36.2 | and Charlie Munger and I do it. |
| 0:39.1 | And we've talked to investors like Guy Spear and Maneshbibri and a whole group of people that are following, |
| 0:46.0 | Munger and Buffett into what we call Rule 1 investing. |
| 0:50.0 | And today we're going to talk about the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods and what that means in terms of how to value the business. |
| 0:58.0 | And since they bought it for a set price, and a little bit about the emotions you go through when your favorite wonderful business |
| 1:07.0 | that you're going to own the rest of your life suddenly gets snatched right out of your hands. |
| 1:16.4 | That's right, which is what happened to me. That's right. Yeah, so we talk about... Well, also what happened to you is that, you know, the upside of |
| 1:21.6 | getting a thing snatched out of your hands is often that you just made a bunch of money and I don't know how long you've owned Whole Foods, but it's I think less than a year |
| 1:30.0 | And I think you just made about 50% on it |
| 1:34.2 | I'd have to think how long. I'm not exactly sure the answer to how long, but, um, yeah, somewhere around a year probably. |
| 1:42.3 | Yeah. And, um and and I think I made 42% well I figured it out but then I in the |
| 1:51.0 | grand tradition of me I immediately forgot what I made. |
| 1:54.4 | Do you remember what you bought it for? |
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