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Speaker 2: I'm justin and I'm harsh Deep and it's Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: A see a lot of Ossie's are watching Netflix right now.

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Speaker 1: And Netflix is benefiting from this big time. Get this,

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Speaker 1: It made more than one point one billion dollars from

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: But he actually shifted more than one billion dollars of

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Speaker 1: Three reflective stories today, let's get into it. For our

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Speaker 1: first set, the Australian Luxury Goods Marketplace has seen at

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Speaker 1: share price jump more than ten percent early this week

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Speaker 1: after it denied allegations that has fake products on its platform.

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Speaker 2: Seems strange that a denial of something really bad has

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Speaker 2: actually seen a share price jumper. Tell me more.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So, Setire is the luxury goods marketplace that was

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Speaker 1: founded back in twenty seventeen and listed on the ASEX

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Speaker 2: Since those early days, Satire has grown to over one

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Speaker 2: million orders per year.

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Speaker 1: And they're not selling anchor or home brand products. We're

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Speaker 1: talking high end brands like Louis Vuitton, Mike Prada, Valentino.

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Speaker 2: But there has been a lot of controversy around set Tire,

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Speaker 2: largely because it doesn't deal directly with the high end brands, and.

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Speaker 1: That's raised some serious concerns about the quality as well

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Speaker 1: as the origin of the products that are sold on

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Speaker 2: Am I getting a two thousand dollars discount on a

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Speaker 1: So actually, a global due diligence firm, which has done

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Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand investigations, has now done a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into and.

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Speaker 2: They found a complex company structure, opaque supply and logistics network,

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Speaker 1: It's fair to say that is all major cause for concern.

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Speaker 2: But then Satire released a report saying that they reject

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Speaker 2: entirely the allegations, and.

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Speaker 1: The story gets juhd because Setia also said this ju

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Speaker 1: Diligence firm was commissioned to do the report by a short.

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Speaker 2: Seller and the goal of this report was to dent

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Speaker 2: the share price of Satire to the benefit of the

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Speaker 1: Next thing you know, share price up ten percent.

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Speaker 2: So tell me what is the key learning here.

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Speaker 1: Short Selling is the process of selling shares to someone

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Speaker 1: at current prices with the aim of buying them back

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Speaker 1: later at a lower.

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Speaker 2: Price, and it's done by borrowing shares of a company

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Speaker 2: from a broker first. Often, short sellers will do a

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Speaker 1: Company, understanding company structures, who their supplies, are, speaking to

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Speaker 2: And once they have conviction that something is a little

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Speaker 1: And then often release the report to the mark highlighting

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Speaker 1: all the fishy stuff going on. All in all, it's

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Speaker 2: That it didn't seem to face satires investors.

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Speaker 1: For our second story, Petstock, the pet food retailer backed

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Speaker 1: by Woolworths, has been forced to sell over forty of

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Speaker 2: Tell me more about this one.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So Petstock started back in nineteen ninety five in

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Speaker 2: And since then it's grown to become Australia's second biggest

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Speaker 1: We're talking two hundred and seventy six stores and a

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Speaker 2: Quick reminder. In December twenty twenty two, Woolworths acquired a

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Speaker 1: But that was subject to the hubal Ce reviewing the deal.

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Speaker 2: And review the deal they did. In order to get

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Speaker 2: the deal done, Petstock was forced to sell forty one

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Speaker 1: But what we do know is that the sale of

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Speaker 1: these stores will triple pet O's revenue into over two

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Speaker 2: This will mean pet O is marketing its territory as

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Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 2: Regulatory decisions aimed at creating market competition can sometimes lead

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Speaker 1: Or intended consequences for the Atria'll see you see JS.

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Speaker 2: Woolwort's acquisition of pet Stock was all part of their

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Speaker 1: But because of concerns around competition force them to divest

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Speaker 2: Assets that included the brand's best Friends, Our Vet, My

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Speaker 1: The challenge from Woolworths was to find a buyer for

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Speaker 2: So by selling these stores to pet O, a smaller

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Speaker 2: chain at the time, Wilworts has effectively enabled Peto to

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Speaker 1: And contributed to the rise of a significant new player

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Speaker 2: For our third and final story, TPG has come out

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Speaker 2: and said that tech giants like Google and Meta should

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Speaker 1: That is sure to grind the gears of tech CEOs.

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Speaker 1: So what is the story here?

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Speaker 2: TPG is the third largest telco company in Australia with

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Speaker 2: over five point eight million subscribers, and.

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Speaker 1: It's the parent company of other telco brands like Mootaphone,

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Speaker 2: Now TPG has publicly come out against tech giants and

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Speaker 1: Shots fired. TPG reckons that tech companies like Google and

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Speaker 1: Netflix they make massive profit off the back of Australia's

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Speaker 2: And that they encourage people to consume more data by

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Speaker 2: watching Bridgeton and Baby Reindeer marathons.

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Speaker 1: But ah, these tech companies don't spend a single dollar

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Speaker 1: on the internet infrastructure that they rely on. So tell me, H,

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Speaker 1: what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 2: When an industry is benefiting at the cost of another,

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Speaker 2: sometimes regulators need to step in to create a fair outcome.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, tech giants have started pushing back against this idea

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Speaker 1: of paying for Internet access. They're even calling it the

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Speaker 1: Internet Task.

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Speaker 2: But TPGs not the first to take.

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Speaker 1: This stance, Nope. In fact, regulatory bodies in the EU,

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Speaker 1: in South Korea, and India have all started working on

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Speaker 1: a solution as well.

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Speaker 2: Because get this, Jazz, Google, Netflix, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and

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Speaker 2: Microsoft together generate nearly half of all Internet.

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Speaker 1: Traffic, and as the digital economy expands, so does the

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Speaker 1: need for strong Internet infrastructure. Flex sam if you're looking

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