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0:00[Music]
0:05what's a case interview like how should
0:07you interact with their interviewer how
0:09long should a case interview take these
0:11are some of the questions that we get as
0:12people are preparing for their case
0:13interviews with Bay in this video you'll
0:16get a chance to see someone set up their
0:18analysis and their framework work
0:20through their analysis including doing
0:21some math and synthesize their
0:23recommendation at the end we hope this
0:25interview example helps you feel
0:27prepared and confident heading into your
0:28interviews so let's take a look at a cas
0:31interview hi Eric great to meet you
0:33great to meet you so glad to have you
0:34here today excited to be here a little
0:36nervous but excited yeah how are you
0:38doing just more generally I'm good I'm
0:40good yeah office is beautiful
0:41everybody's been great so far and just
0:43yeah excited to get going with the case
0:44I'm so glad well I'll be the one pushing
0:46us along don't worry if I finish us up
0:49move us to another area I'll be in
0:51charge in terms of the time management
0:53good to know thank you great so should
0:54we jump in yeah let's do it all right so
0:56let me give you a little bit of the
0:57context of the case now one thing I love
1:00about this one is I do all consumer
1:03products and Retail work for you know my
1:05normal job here at ban and so this is
1:08one of those consumer products types of
1:10cases and it's based off of a real Bane
1:12case okay and so let me give you a
1:14little bit of the situation we're going
1:15to Blind all of the company names for
1:17the purposes of
1:18confidentiality so our client is foodco
1:21they're a multi-billion dollar client
1:24that has leading Brands across many
1:26different food categories right now
1:28they've narrowed in on the alternative
1:29milk category they believe it's growing
1:32quickly has some attractive elements to
1:34it and alternative milk you can Define
1:36as anything that's non-dairy plant-based
1:39so things like almond oat coconut soy
1:42you name it all goes within alternative
1:45milk I think I used almond in my latte
1:46this morning so there you go so you're
1:48you're familiar already they've
1:51partnered with Bane to determine how
1:53they want to enter and whether or not
1:55they think this asset is the right way
1:56to enter the space okay because they're
1:59pretty familiar with this Market they've
2:00narrowed in on a Target named smilk and
2:03smilk in terms of its profile it's
2:06pretty attractive profile that's why
2:07they're interested in it okay to give
2:09you some facts on it it has over the
2:11past three years been doubling its
2:13profit each year oh wow it's impressive
2:16very very strong performance overall it
2:18has about 6% share of the alternative
2:21milk market and um is expected to grow
2:24to 8% okay so moderate modest growth
2:27right now this smk has been able to
2:30expand across Europe and the us but
2:33foodco for this particular piece of work
2:36is only interested in the US market okay
2:39good to know so we'll be focusing on
2:40that now here's the real complicating
2:43element of it they expect that smk
2:45should be able to increase its profit by
2:486X over the next 5 years okay so as we
2:51think about this overall I'd love to
2:53have you tell me a little bit about how
2:55you would approach assessing this
2:57question and in particular we need need
2:59to understand whether or not this 6X
3:02profitability growth is feasible okay
3:04great I think I understand the situation
3:06can I ask a couple clarifying questions
3:08sure absolutely awesome I imagine they
3:10have different business units like Al
3:12men soy oat any gaps in their portfolio
3:15that should be aware of not that it's
3:17relevant to the case currently gotcha
3:19and then finally just in terms of
3:23understanding does spco have any other
3:25specific acquisition thesis that I
3:27should be aware of any metrics that they
3:28want to hit or is just broad assessment
3:31get our opinion whether it's good or not
3:33you know that's a good question so
3:35mostly they're focused on whether or not
3:36they can achieve the profit okay but
3:39what's equally important is thinking
3:41about share and the trade-offs between
3:43the two of those okay awesome I think I
3:46understand the problem excited to get
3:47into it you might have to take a couple
3:48moments to structure my
3:58thoughts
4:03awesome so as I think through this
4:05problem of how to assess uh smilk from
4:08food Coast perspective and think through
4:10whether the profitability target is
4:12achievable there's really three buckets
4:14that I want to look into first is the
4:17alt uh milk Market itself great second
4:20is a deep dive into smilk and their
4:22internal operations perfect and then
4:24finally I have some other considerations
4:25and RIS that I want to look at Great
4:27before we jump into your framework can
4:29you tell me why you thought about these
4:30three as being the main buckets that you
4:32wanted to focus on for sure so I wanted
4:34to first start looking at the market
4:36because I think a core tenant of any
4:39good acquisition or investment is that
4:41the asset is positioned in a market that
4:43is favorable growing has Tailwinds and
4:46headwinds Etc then once we feel
4:49comfortable about that that's a large
4:51and growing Market smilk is well
4:52positioned within it making sure that
4:54smilk has everything that they need to
4:57to be able to succeed capture share grow
5:00Revenue decrease costs which will
5:02ultimately help us to improve
5:03profitability great and then finally
5:06these like other risks are
5:07considerations are more kind of deal
5:09specific in terms of you know how might
5:12we Finance it uh what is the balance
5:14sheet of Food Co look like can they
5:16bring on debt um because I think that
5:18will impact what the ROI could look like
5:20moving forward in terms of opportunity
5:23cost I know that there's zero datea on
5:25smilk right now but are there perhaps
5:27other ways that they could enter the
5:28market um should they do a joint venture
5:31with somebody should they just build it
5:32organically themselves or could there be
5:34a better Target and then finally with
5:36any acquisition I think making sure that
5:38we don't lose sight of culture to make
5:40sure that it'll fold in nicely and that
5:42that transition plan would go smoothly
5:44but unless there's any other questions
5:46on kind of how I've I've thought through
5:47this I think I want to start with the
5:49initial hypothesis that yes this asset
5:52would be a good acquisition for uh food
5:55Cod to make and that they will be able
5:57to achieve the The Profit Target
6:00of just remind myself 6X in in the next
6:035 years MH and so in order to start
6:04testing that we' really start to like
6:06looking at this first bucket in terms of
6:09what the overall alternative milk Market
6:11looks like and ideally Broken Out by
6:13segment perfect is that where you'd like
6:15to start yes it would be great and then
6:16after we look at that what are the most
6:18important elements within smilk So
6:20within smilk what I would love to
6:22understand is looking at their
6:25historical performance broken out
6:27ideally by business unit um the reason I
6:29want to look at that is to get a sense
6:32of how they've gotten to where they are
6:33today I know that they have doubled
6:36profit every year for the past three
6:37years which is really incredible growth
6:39right and obviously there's multiple
6:40ways that they could do that they could
6:42be gaining market share they could be
6:44introducing new products or they could
6:46be cutting cost or some combination of
6:48all of that and I think how they've
6:50gotten to where they are today will give
6:52us a good insight into what future
6:54growth opportunities they might have and
6:55help us to get a really good
6:56understanding of whether or not that 6X
6:58Target is achievable fantastic I like
7:00how you're thinking about it I also like
7:01how you're bringing it back to the
7:03objective around this 6X so let's start
7:05where you suggested okay and I have a
7:07slide here that gives you a picture of
7:09the market I would love for you to tell
7:11me what does this tell you about the
7:13Dynamics of the milk Market okay if I
7:16can just take a couple moments to orient
7:19myself so what I'm seeing is a chart of
7:24kind of the US milk sales over the past
7:2710 years forecasted uh into the future
7:29for 5 years from now and the first thing
7:31that immediately jumps out to me is you
7:33can see that the overall Market has been
7:35in Decline and forcasted going forward
7:38it's at best going to remain roughly
7:41flat that's right so from the overall
7:43perspective not great but what is
7:45exciting for smilk is when you do a deep
7:47dive into the alternative milk segment
7:49that is actually expected to grow and
7:52and quite considerably over the next 5
7:54years a low double digit ker is actually
7:56pretty exciting to me and so feeling
7:59feeling good about that and looking
8:01closer at the data row I'm seeing some
8:03numbers that we can manipulate in order
8:06to get a sense of exactly what the size
8:08of the alt milk Market is today and then
8:10what it's going to grow to five years
8:12from now which I think will be a good
8:13starting point to help us understand the
8:15feasibility of the 6X Target agree let's
8:17go ahead and do that okay so uh in order
8:20to combine these variables I'm thinking
8:21we first take the alt milk share uh
8:24today multiply that by the overall
8:26Market size which will give us the alt
8:27milk Market uh in dollar today and 5
8:30years from now putting some numbers 19
8:34billion is okay if I round that yes 19
8:36billion times
8:3911% that is roughly 2 billion 2.1
8:45billion so that is today and then in 5
8:50years we are going to uh
8:5419.2 billion time
8:5720% Which is 3
8:59.8 billion but I'm going to go ahead and
9:02round that to 4 billion so like I said
9:06um we now have a better sense of what
9:08might be achievable if schil just kind
9:09of maintains market share maintains
9:11status quo going forward it's exciting
9:13it's 2x um but it is a far cry from
9:17their 6X Target and so to update my
9:20hypothesis I still think that there is
9:22reason to believe that this would be a
9:24good acquisition for foodco however I'm
9:27more bearish about the achievability of
9:29the 6X profit Target in order to get a
9:31better sense of that achievability I
9:34would love to look at any internal
9:37financials that we have from smoke to
9:38see how they've grown over the past I'm
9:40so glad that you asked and and had us go
9:43there because I'd love to think a little
9:44bit about the feasibility of this share
9:46gain now that we've isolated that they
9:48will need to gain share to reach their
9:50targets potentially or other levers I'd
9:53love you to tell me a little bit about
9:54what this competitor Market view tells
9:57you about their ability to gain share
10:00okay just orienting myself quickly so
10:04what I'm seeing like right off the bat
10:07is not too long ago only a year and a
10:10half um there weren't that many players
10:12and smilk was still very ncent but over
10:16time smilk has moderately grown its
10:19market share seems like they've
10:21plateaued very recently and they are the
10:24smallest player in an ever increasing
10:26competitive and crowded Market correct
10:28and and then just interpreting uh the
10:31names here large snackco looks like the
10:33market leader which could potentially be
10:36not great for smoke if they're going up
10:38against somebody that is very well
10:40financed uh and very entrenched in the
10:43market and so uh from looking at this
10:47I'm feeling even better about the view
10:50that the 6X uh profit might not be
10:53achievable simply because I don't see an
10:57easy win here in order to gain share
11:00however I'm not going to give up um I
11:02think some things that could help them
11:04achieve that if any of these competitors
11:06are potentially acquisition targets and
11:08food co could do a quasi like roll up
11:11strategy that's great that could be a
11:13way um but uh what else would you need
11:16to know about smilk to gain confidence
11:19that they could gain share I think in
11:21order to to gain confidence about how
11:23they could gain share I want to know a
11:25couple of things one is I guess I would
11:29bucket this kind of external and
11:31internal um considerations externally I
11:34would love to know how customers view
11:36them are they differentiated in any way
11:39from a product standpoint or a
11:40capability standpoint such that they
11:42could steal share and then second um
11:45from the internal perspective I would
11:48love to know what products they offer
11:50today are there any untapped geographies
11:53that they're not in for example are
11:55there any products that competitors
11:56offer that they simply lack and then I
11:59know we're focusing on grocery but
12:00there's always opportunity for
12:02partnership there's always opportunity
12:03for um you know selling your brand
12:06outside of grocery stores like coffee
12:07shops um you know airport lounges Etc so
12:11that's great so to update my hypothesis
12:14I still think that this is a good asset
12:16so I feel good about um the acquisition
12:19thesis there however I'm increasingly
12:21bearish on the ability to hit that 6X uh
12:24rep or profitability increase over the
12:26next 5 years in order to feel more
12:29comfortable about that part I would love
12:32to look internally to smoke in terms of
12:35their financials to understand how
12:37they've grown and like you just
12:38suggested are there any opportunities
12:40that they could uh kind of untap
12:42potential to steal share that's great I
12:44think we're going to explore both the
12:46internal and the external that you
12:47mentioned so first let's go to the
12:49internal I have some data on the company
12:52okay could you first Orient me to what
12:54you see in terms of the data you do have
12:56and what you would need in order to
12:58answer this Sixx profit question so what
13:01I'm seeing like you said we have
13:03financial data for smilk broken out uh
13:06from their us business and their
13:08European business and looks like it's a
13:10little bit of a puzzle to solve in terms
13:13of uh some some blanks that we need to
13:14fill in love some logic games yeah love
13:17love some logic games and so what I'm
13:19seeing in terms of how to well just to
13:21react like very quickly to this it's
13:24interesting that the US business is only
13:27uh a quarter of overall profit
13:28profitability compared to the European
13:30business which is observation which is
13:32important because we're only focused on
13:33the US from food Coast perspective the
13:36second thing that sticks out to me is
13:38there's quite a a delta in terms of the
13:40margin between the two geographies and
13:43so you know to keep this on our radar
13:46moving forward would' love to understand
13:47why that Delta exists and if there's any
13:50way that we could potentially bring the
13:51US business up to up to Snuff with what
13:53they're seeing in Europe but to get to
13:55your question in terms of how to fill
13:58this chart out out what I'm seeing is we
14:01have Revenue today and we have the
14:03margin so we can back solve for this
14:06profit figure right here and then we
14:09know in the US what the market size is
14:11today we know what their share is so
14:13that'll give us this value and then same
14:16approach knowing the margin we can back
14:18calculate what profit is that'll leave
14:21this hole and then we can kind of fill
14:22in from there now before we do that
14:25going through that process what is it
14:27going to tell you about whether or not
14:29they can achieve that 6X profitability
14:31so what it's going to tell me is it's
14:32going to tell me what profit is today
14:35and then we know what profit is today we
14:38know what the market is expected to be 5
14:40years from now what their market share
14:42is expected so that'll give us Revenue
14:45right then if we multiply by a margin
14:47that'll give us what if everything goes
14:49as we're forecasting no changes in
14:51margin what profitability would be right
14:53just looking at these numbers if we do
14:56that like we said from before with no
14:58material change and share they're only
15:00expected to gain two points that's not
15:02going to close the gap unless we see
15:03some sort of margin increase like that's
15:06also not going to close the gap but I do
15:09think that there are still ways that we
15:12could achieve this one would be if we
15:14could increase the profitability of the
15:17US segment to get to Europe that'll get
15:19us some of the way my intuition is not
15:20going to get us all the way but there
15:23also could be some margin Improvement
15:25that you would see from synergies
15:26rolling into Food Co I would expect that
15:28distribution Logistics Etc would get
15:30cheaper also purchasing power of a
15:33really large company could help get the
15:35cost of goods down for these different
15:37types of milks materials Plastics
15:40Etc um and so I'm kind of imagining a
15:45sensitivity Table to where if like if we
15:49know what the market would need to would
15:52look like in the future there's some
15:54implied share that they would have to
15:55get to assuming profitability Remains
15:57the Same and and then vice versa if we
15:59assume no share gain but uh calculate
16:03what profitability the margin would need
16:05to increase to hit the target that'll
16:07help us understand the extremes of the
16:09sensitivity table and then help us get a
16:11better sense of could reality exist
16:13somewhere in the middle great and bound
16:15the potential outcomes I really like how
16:17you're thinking about this especially
16:18because there's a lot of things that
16:20could go right to reduce costs overall
16:22and help them hit their margin targets
16:24how are you thinking about the
16:25trade-offs though some of the headwinds
16:27they might face great fall out there are
16:29natural tensions between trying to
16:31increase market share and thus increase
16:33Revenue as well at the same time as
16:35trying to decrease costs on one hand you
16:39usually need to invest for growth but on
16:41the latter situation of trying to
16:43improve profitability that often times
16:45comes with finding places to get better
16:49more optimized with your budget and
16:50maybe requires less investment um just
16:53to protect that that margin yeah so glad
16:55you're acknowledging that why don't we
16:56go ahead and do the exercise us
16:58suggested so that we can really get our
17:00arms around what the real potential
17:02might be to increase profit is it okay
17:04if I just write on please do so um
17:08revenue is 320 million profit margin is
17:1015% so to arrive at this profit figure
17:13is just 320 million time 15% and that
17:16will give us the dollar value so 10% of
17:19320 is 32 half of that is 16 which means
17:22that this is 48 million great um what I
17:27said earlier for the US business we know
17:30that the market is 2 billion today and
17:34they have six% share so that is 120
17:41million which means 320 - 120 is 200
17:48million we know that if this is 10% um
17:5110% of 120 is 12 and then 18% of 200
17:58is 36 million which checks because 12 +
18:0236 is 48 so now that we have all of this
18:05mapped out we can put some specific
18:08numbers to what their actual profit
18:09Target is great and so if they are
18:12at 12 million
18:16today and they need to 6X that means
18:19they need to get to 72 million mhm and
18:23so like I was saying in terms of
18:25understanding how they might get there
18:27we know that that there's going to be
18:29some latent growth assuming they hit
18:32their market share targets and the
18:33market grows like we expected right so I
18:35can figure out what that contribution
18:36would be and then the Delta would
18:38essentially come from the sensitivity
18:41table that I outlined that's plan great
18:43okay let's go ahead and do it so um we
18:45know that go ahead and transfer over
18:48here Market 5 years from now is going to
18:52be 4 billion and they're going to have
18:568% share
18:59which translates
19:01to $320 million in in revenue and then
19:07so just from that if they keep the 10%
19:12profitability margin that means that
19:14they are getting to 32 million so that's
19:17good like we we've already talked about
19:19but it is still cry $40 million short we
19:23we need to more than double this and so
19:25that let's go find how we might do that
19:27and so from the revenue marketshare
19:31perspective uh and then looking at it
19:33from the
19:35profitability
19:39perspective so when I look at how much
19:44they would need to achieve we'll we'll
19:46solve backwards here so we know that
19:48they need 72 million if we are going to
19:51assume the 10% profitability mhm that's
19:56simple math we know that they need to to
19:58grow um to $720 million of Revenue right
20:03at that profit level at that profit
20:05level that seems like quite a bit um if
20:08we go ahead and figure out what that
20:10implied market share would be uh very
20:13quickly so we know it's a
20:174072 so that would be
20:20one 4 3 2 18
20:2518% market share MH
20:28which is triple from what they are at
20:31today um which is a lot to gain
20:33especially since they plateaued out over
20:35time did so again I think we're going to
20:37need to dip into this profitability
20:39perspective yes and so where I'm
20:41thinking about here is we'll assume that
20:44they maintain share uh that we're
20:46forecasting of 8% so we know that
20:48they'll be starting with
20:49$320 million of Topline mhm again we're
20:53trying to solve for this 72 million and
20:56so now it is just figuring out what the
20:58margin is and if I do this it looks like
21:04it is just higher than
21:0920% but to put some math to
21:14it
21:1622 2 64 and that leaves us eight
21:22so it's like 22 to 23% great so 23%
21:29again that's big but if we look at the
21:31European business as potentially where
21:33we might get to so upper bounds 18% call
21:37it 20 maybe if we get some synergies
21:39from foodco I think we need to do some
21:40further analysis to see if we can unlock
21:43fully unlock this 23% but I'm now
21:46getting a little less bearish than I was
21:48originally so I'm going to update my
21:49hypothesis that this is a good asset I
21:52like the market that they're in um I
21:54like the growth potential from the
21:57profitability perspective perspective
21:58the the lever that exists particularly
22:00here in terms of matching the European
22:01business um and I think a combination of
22:04these two could make the 6X profit uh
22:07Target achievable we might not get all
22:09the way there but I think we might get
22:11pretty close which I think would be
22:12exciting to Fuko right could still make
22:14it attractive and and I like your
22:16sensitivity because you know you don't
22:17need it to be on either end of these
22:19extremes but we are asking for a lot to
22:21go right share gain and margin so why
22:24don't we take a look at some of the
22:25external factors that you had mentioned
22:28um so I'd love you to take a look at
22:29this and tell me what it it tells you
22:31about the competitive market okay so
22:34there's a lot of information here if I
22:36could just Orient myself quickly so what
22:40I'm seeing is smil compared to um looks
22:43like a lot of the major players from
22:45this early market share map that we
22:47looked at earlier and what I'm seeing is
22:49first validating that you know smilk is
22:52that where they are today they a smaller
22:53player in the market and then you know
22:56alt milk 5 and large snackco are kind of
22:58the Behemoth right which it's exciting
23:00that in the last 18 months they've been
23:01able to do this again I think points to
23:04the attractiveness of this Market but
23:06also paints a potentially negative light
23:08from the competitive landscape I love
23:10seeing for smilk some of the word
23:12associations here fun delicious premium
23:15like that sounds like a really good
23:16brand that could be you know kind of the
23:19core tenants and assets that we could
23:20leverage for for future growth again
23:23this High customer satisfaction I think
23:25is only solidifying that this might be
23:28bad right now the fact that customer
23:30awareness is low but if we're starting
23:32from a low base I think there's
23:33opportunity that we could use to
23:35increase um that going forward which
23:37would help us increase sales help us
23:39improve the market share that we have
23:42and then the pricing difference is quite
23:45interesting as well it looks like we're
23:47roughly kind of middle of the road
23:50whereas you know there might be some
23:52upward Potential from pricing that we
23:55see um you know alt milk has gained a
23:57ton of share yes people do view it as
24:00overpriced but um you know there might
24:03maybe we don't go all the way to $6 but
24:05it I think there might be some room
24:07especially because we're seeing as
24:08premium and that's not a word
24:10association I see here so maybe the
24:11willingness to pay for a premium product
24:14should be there and so again I think
24:17going back to the math that we just did
24:18in terms of how to steal market share
24:21this could be an Avenue and pricing is
24:23really exciting because it is a lever
24:25that is not intention it flows to the
24:28bottom line and so um with this again
24:31hypothesis I feel even better about this
24:33asset after seeing this table and I also
24:35feel a little bit better about the
24:36profitability target do we have
24:38information on customers willingness to
24:40pay or the potential to run a pilot in
24:42terms of to get some data of How High we
24:44could take prices without damaging
24:46volume that's a great question
24:48absolutely something that we would do
24:49and did do Under the course of this but
24:52one thing that I you know would love to
24:53know quickly is as we think about
24:55deepening our insights and analysis for
24:58Food Co and we know that they are
25:00fantastic in terms of building platforms
25:02and acquiring and I think it was a
25:04comment that you made earlier as well
25:05that they could start to think about
25:07that where do you think that they could
25:09go here in terms of their their overall
25:11portfolio yeah so I I think it was one
25:14of the when we were looking at the
25:15market share map like potentially a
25:17quasi rollup uh strategy and if I if I
25:19go back to the math that we calculated
25:21earlier 18% total market share would
25:23help him get to that Top Line and
25:25looking at this um you know alt milk one
25:29adding on would help us get there and
25:30then these other three targets if we
25:33were to uh incorporate them into food
25:35Coast portfolio that would help us to
25:37reach the Target and exceed it obviously
25:40becomes the question of are they viable
25:42are they up for sale um and again all of
25:44the other considerations that we
25:45outlined in the original framework of
25:47like culture um how we would Finance it
25:49Etc come com to mind and if they are you
25:52know adding to their profit profile
25:55overall that great point cuz we don't
25:58know what the the profitability of these
25:59companies look like 20% share gain in
26:01the last 18 months I imagine that came
26:03with quite a bit investment and maybe
26:04their margins look very negative very
26:06likely well this has been fantastic I'd
26:09love to take a step back and and just
26:11ask you at this point knowing we don't
26:13have all the information that we
26:14typically would have where where is your
26:16recommendation and your hypothesis at
26:18this point my recommendation to foodco
26:20is that they acquire smk for the
26:22following reasons one I think the
26:24alternative milk Market segment is
26:26exciting expected to double over the
26:28next 5 years and second I think smilk in
26:30terms of the assets that it is bringing
26:32is a great platform to be able to grow
26:36and get close to the 6X profitability
26:39Target customers love it it's seen as a
26:41premium brand and there's a lot of
26:42potential that we could tap into there
26:44especially if we consider synergies that
26:46food co will bring however this
26:48recommendation is not without risk like
26:51I alluded to the 6X profitability Target
26:53is quite ambitious we've run the numbers
26:56and there's going to need to be both
26:58Market um share gain as well as
27:01improving profitability in order to hit
27:04that Target but understanding we might
27:06not get all the way there I would love
27:08to for next steps start looking into
27:11different pricing strategies that we
27:13could employ uh in order to prove
27:15Revenue improve market share moving
27:17forward and then there's always the uh
27:20ability to negotiate with smilk on the
27:22acquisition price understanding that
27:23their expectations might not be grounded
27:25fully in reality that's fantastic I'm I
27:28your rationale makes so much sense and
27:30I'm so glad that you've highlighted some
27:32of the key considerations and risks
27:34especially around pricing because to
27:36give you a little bit of insight this
27:38project was based off of a real case and
27:41there wasn't a willingness to pay that
27:42higher price so made that profit Target
27:44even more tricky but you you absolutely
27:47targeted the right next steps here for
27:50this project awesome so very nicely done
27:53and it was wonderful to meet you yeah
27:54thank you for working through the cas me
27:55take care I hope this video is giving
27:57you valuable insights into the mindset
27:59the preparation and the approach you can
28:00take to case interviews I'd also
28:02encourage you to take advantage of the
28:03tips and tricks video that you can find
28:05on our YouTube channel or our website
28:07and there's a lot of other resources at
28:08bane.com careers to help you prepare for
28:11a successful interview
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