Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man.
This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
@Matematikern3@WatcherStock I do agree (!)- just wondering if you'd seen anything from the Co
Re. operations perspective I'm not sure it'd be value accretive. If anything, I think as investors, we'd like to see more products being pushed through the vast distribution network they've built
@nasdaqpapi Could not agree more
I have listened to countless interviews where the title of the podcast / video has been about his investment philosophy and I have finished the 1-2hour episode knowing absolutely nothing except for the fact he really likes buffet and munger
@optimist_fund I agree but I fear the revenue drops off dramatically on the core business once they stop with the referral program
They’ll wait until RTE segment is proportional in size presumably so (at that time, say 2027) the 20% growth of that offsets the fall off in meal kits
@contrarynvestor This, to me, is almost more symbolic than the CEO buying a load of shares. As that could (I don’t think it is) be one guy with a vested interest proving he’s all in. This here is a treasury / board decision to buy as they agree it’s the best use of company capital