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🗓️ 16 November 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Current Yield. |
0:07.0 | I am Jim Grant, and I am all alone today, well, except for Eric Whitehead, who's just to my left, |
0:12.2 | he is at the control panel. |
0:13.8 | And we're doing something a little different today. |
0:15.4 | We are going to play for you the remarks that the Mark Cohodas, the famed short-seller delivered at the Grants Conference |
0:23.4 | a couple of years ago. This was the Fall Grants Conference of October 20th or thereabouts |
0:28.6 | 2017. And Mark's topic was a company called MyMedics, pharmaceutical business based in Atlanta |
0:36.6 | that is and was an integrated |
0:38.8 | developer, processor, and marketer of regenerative biomaterial products and bioimplants for |
0:45.3 | human placental tissue, skin and bone, yeah. Well, speaking of skin and bone, Mark scoured |
0:51.3 | my medics for reasons that became apparent over the next couple of years. |
0:56.0 | In fact, up to this point, the scandal was just as Mark said. |
1:00.0 | The scandal flowered and CEO was no longer the CEO and all sorts of stuff happened. |
1:06.0 | Stock got more than sawed in half. |
1:08.0 | But I want you to hear this because it occurred to some of us around |
1:12.1 | here that this was a short seller in action. Terrific analysis and courageous in his refusal to back |
1:19.5 | down from all manner of charges thrown up into his face for having a temerity to challenge this |
1:26.1 | company and its executive suite. |
1:27.8 | So give it a listen. |
1:28.8 | Here is Mark Cohotus at a grants conference in 2017 talking about my medics. |
1:34.9 | Needing no introduction, Mark will actually get none. |
1:39.4 | As you know, he was a former GP at Rocket Partners, Copper River. |
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