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Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired Mar 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:10 Ben Gilbert They load the entire circus, the cars, the teams, the hospitality, onto a fleet of seven Boeing triple sevens between races, and they set up shop in 24 different cities from Monaco to Bahrain to Melbourne, Australia.
  • ▶ 3:10 Ben Gilbert They load the entire circus, the cars, the teams, the hospitality, onto a fleet of seven Boeing triple sevens between races, and they set up shop in 24 different cities from Monaco to Bahrain to Melbourne, Australia.
  • ▶ 3:39:17 Ben Gilbert I mean, okay, the European races, everything goes by truck, which is a little better, but it's still 300 trucks.

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired Oct 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:30 David Rosenthal Which is that Boeing.
  • ▶ 48:32 David Rosenthal The aircraft company is going to be launching the seven 47 commercially and that it would dramatically reduce the cost of international overseas travel and make it accessible to the average American.
  • ▶ 48:49 Ben Gilbert The seven 47 immediately cut the cost of international travel to Europe by 50%.

Rolex (Audio) · Acquired Feb 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:17:25 David Rosenthal So in 1955, Boeing launched the seven oh seven commercial jet airliner based on a Air Force air-to-air refueling tanker design.
  • ▶ 2:17:25 David Rosenthal So in 1955, Boeing launched the seven oh seven commercial jet airliner based on a Air Force air-to-air refueling tanker design.
  • ▶ 2:17:42 David Rosenthal And the next year, in 1956, Pan Am, the iconic American airline, begins flying intercontinental jet flights with the Boeing seven oh seven for the first time

TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired Jan 27, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 56:50 Morris Chang And McKinsey immediately answered, Boeing, which is, which is a good answer, you know.
  • ▶ 57:00 Ben Gilbert Boeing has commercial and, and government.
  • ▶ 57:04 Morris Chang Uh, well, they, they probably have, have commercial in government, but they don't have, uh, seven oh seven, seven 47, uh, seven 57, you know, they don't have, they don't divide.
  • ▶ 57:04 Morris Chang Uh, well, they, they probably have, have commercial in government, but they don't have, uh, seven oh seven, seven 47, uh, seven 57, you know, they don't have, they don't divide.
  • ▶ 57:17 Morris Chang And if we divide up, uh, by fab, it would be like dividing up seven oh seven from seven 57, seven 37, you know, yeah.
  • ▶ 57:17 Morris Chang And if we divide up, uh, by fab, it would be like dividing up seven oh seven from seven 57, seven 37, you know, yeah.

TSMC · Acquired Jan 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

IKEA (Audio) · Acquired Nov 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:00:07 Ben Gilbert The Seattle store was actually a leased old Boeing warehouse that ended up being laid out pretty differently than other Ikea stores, and so you kind of get what you ask for.

Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired May 30, 2023 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:15 Ben Gilbert Hornet, the Boeing plane, and by the time the movie gets released, it's basically discontinued.
  • ▶ 6:22 David Rosenthal Douglas, of course, is now part of Boeing.
  • ▶ 1:27:29 Ben Gilbert Yeah, starting way back in World War II, but I think continuing after that, in the Burbank facilities at Lockheed, I know Boeing in the Seattle area and other places too, built basically these burlap cities on top of factories that looked…
  • ▶ 2:18:18 David Rosenthal They're trying to compete with Boeing and with McDonnell Douglas here.
  • ▶ 2:34:46 Ben Gilbert And Boeing today, which is not Boeing, but Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and this incredible era of consolidation.
  • ▶ 2:39:47 Ben Gilbert There's the five big primes, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics.
  • ▶ 2:41:23 David Rosenthal So the DOJ blocks that, but also in 1997, Boeing merges with McDonnell Douglas and becomes the giant that it is now.
  • ▶ 2:41:55 Ben Gilbert There's Lockheed Martin, right after their combination, there's Boeing, and there's still independent McDonnell Douglas.
  • ▶ 2:42:03 Ben Gilbert And McDonnell Douglas is eliminated from competition, so it just comes down to Boeing and Lockheed as the two finalists.
  • ▶ 2:42:11 Ben Gilbert Within a month, Boeing announces that it's buying McDonnell Douglas.
  • ▶ 2:42:20 Ben Gilbert This contract is so big, and they were betting so heavily on it, that basically Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, after McDonnell Douglas loses, kind of need to just combine and size up in order to be a formidable competitor to Lockheed Martin…
  • ▶ 2:46:42 Ben Gilbert For the B-II, Boeing makes the wings, Northrop makes the cockpit, LTV makes the bomb bays, and the back end of the B-II airplane, in addition to 4000 subcontractors working on bits and pieces of everything else.
  • ▶ 3:01:05 Ben Gilbert Lockheed, then Boeing, then General Dynamics, then Raytheon, then Northrop, then McKesson.

Qualcomm · Acquired Nov 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:02 David Rosenthal Like that is a gravy train that like, yeah, Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, all these companies.

Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired May 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:41 Jim Weber If you're buying a Boeing jet or a 600 dollar wakeboard that never wears out, or an 800 dollar golf driver,

Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired Mar 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:38:53 Ben Gilbert An obvious example of this is Boeing doesn't take every part and throw it into a wind tunnel.
  • ▶ 1:38:58 Ben Gilbert Well, maybe Boeing does, but the zillion new space startups certainly don't do that.
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