Is 4 Years Adequate For Nikola founder Trevor Milton?

During their latest episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Carlisle, and Brewster discussed Is 4 Years Adequate For Nikola founder Trevor Milton?. Here’s an excerpt from the episode:

Tobias: Here’s another one. “Trevor Milton got four years.” How do you guys feel about that? How much money has he got? Is it worth it?

Bill: Well, it depends, if you get raped. [Jake laughs] I don’t mean to say it that way, but it’s true. If I’m at a so, so prison for four years– [crosstalk]

Jake: Country club.

Bill: Yeah.

Tobias: Let me reframe. I was being a little bit flippant in the way that I presented that, but let me reframe to what it actually meant. “Is four years enough of a deterrent, if you walk away with,” whatever he’s walked away with. I don’t know if he’s made any sales or he’s had a discourage at all.

Bill: I think it depends on where you’re going. I think if you’re going to a Country Club-ish prison, which according to the authority on this is Office Space, the movie, that doesn’t exist.

Jake: [chuckles] Federal [unintelligible 00:45:13] [laughs]

Bill: Yeah. So, if you end up in the bad kind of prison, no, I probably don’t think it’s worth it. Then again, depends where you came from and what you really want. If you walk away with a billion dollars, that’s real money.

Jake: He really seemed like he came out. He didn’t seem too traumatized.

Bill: Who?

Jake: Shkreli.

Bill: Yeah, Shkreli. That’s right. Yeah. I’m not trying to go to prison.

Jake: He had time to take shots at TC. [laughs]

Bill: Did he?

Jake: Oh, yeah.

Tobias: [unintelligible 00:45:43] reviewed the book.

[laughter]

Bill: Did he? Really?

Tobias and Jake: Yeah.

Bill: Wow.

Jake: Who’s this Tobias Carlisle character and whoever he is–? [laughs]

Bill: Interesting.

Jake: That’s how when we knew TC had arrived.

Bill: I thought he arrived before that. Yeah, I don’t know. The line between fraud and success seems pretty thin at times. That was clearly a fraud.

Tobias: A lot of the entrepreneurs are– That fake it till you make it.

Jake: Yeah, optimistic. [crosstalk]

Tobias: That’s expected. That you’re supposed to pretend like you’re a little bit bigger. Like, there’s plenty of stories about people hiring temps to come into the office to make it look more busy when VC always show up.

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