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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:16 David Rosenthal CalPERS, the big California pension funds, they announced that they're going to vote their Disney shares against Eisner and vote for him to resign.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:50 Ben Gilbert Agreement entered into the 16th day of October, 1923 between Walt Disney of 44 or six Kingswell Avenue, Hollywood, California, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- ▶ 29:34 David Rosenthal Come on out to California.
- ▶ 3:22:38 Ben Gilbert And this is, you know, there's a 160 acres in California, there's a big swath of land in Florida, there's five or six of them around the world, there's some cruise ships, and that spits off more profit.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:33 unnamed speaker One, they need to go meet the AAFC where they are being nationwide and the west coast and going to California.
- ▶ 31:11 unnamed speaker So immediately after Bell comes in as commissioner, he orchestrates approval for the Rams to move out to California.
- ▶ 34:49 unnamed speaker Same year that the Rams moved to California.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:23 David Rosenthal Joe Colombe was born in 1930 in San Diego, California.
- ▶ 14:00 David Rosenthal Joe travels to Texas, and they're like, there is absolutely no reason that this won't work in California.
- ▶ 27:09 Ben Gilbert And then third, there's another thing happening, which is, it's not just Joe who realizes that seven-eleven is a good idea in California.
- ▶ 27:57 David Rosenthal A seven-eleven is coming to California and they needed a dairy supplier.
- ▶ 28:41 David Rosenthal His mother Rhoda was the descendant and inheritor of the original California Spanish land grant of the area that is now the entire city of Malibu.
- ▶ 30:35 Ben Gilbert First to a little cabin in California with his family.
- ▶ 37:16 David Rosenthal They're not going to come to California and get liquor licenses for all these stores that they're going to open.
- ▶ 55:45 David Rosenthal So in August, 1967, Joe opens the first Trader Joe's on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California.
- ▶ 1:05:24 David Rosenthal This is before California wine and Napa is a thing.
- ▶ 1:06:15 David Rosenthal World's greatest variety of California wine.
- ▶ 1:06:33 David Rosenthal I actually think there's a pretty good chance that this was the world's greatest variety of California wine in one retailer because it wasn't a market yet.
- ▶ 1:08:54 Ben Gilbert And now a great way to be differentiated because no one else is doing the California wine thing.
- ▶ 1:08:59 Ben Gilbert They can build a brand around being California wine purveyors.
- ▶ 1:10:05 David Rosenthal So this is the late sixties, early seventies, where they're starting out becoming a California wine merchant.
- ▶ 1:11:14 Ben Gilbert The widest variety of California wines.
- ▶ 1:12:52 David Rosenthal Trader Joe's becomes the largest wine retailer in California.
- ▶ 1:12:58 David Rosenthal Which is, on the one hand, completely insane, but on the other hand, shows just how young and new the wine-drinking market was in America, and that Trader Joe's was the one making it happen, starting in California.
- ▶ 1:14:52 David Rosenthal They're the number one retail in California.
- ▶ 1:15:55 Ben Gilbert And he pours over the regulation and he synthesizes it all from all the different bodies, whether it's the USDA or the FTC or the state of California.
- ▶ 1:20:24 David Rosenthal The California hippie counterculture Summer of Love movement kind of bifurcated and went off in a whole bunch of different directions, and one of those directions was Silicon Valley and tech and computers and Steve Jobs and Nolan Bushnell…
- ▶ 1:31:34 David Rosenthal Just like with wine, Trader Joe's quickly becomes the largest nut and dried fruit retailer in the whole state of California
- ▶ 1:40:06 David Rosenthal The other equally important thing is it diversifies them out of wine and liquor as their sole core differentiated thing for their target customers, which is hugely important because right as health food is really ramping up and hitting its…
- ▶ 1:54:22 David Rosenthal There was one other thing, though, that Joe did as a sort of strategic hedge against all the chaos that the, uh, repeal of fair trade unleashed in the California retail sector.
- ▶ 1:59:28 Ben Gilbert Cause at this point, it's still, 20 stores all in California?
- ▶ 2:09:23 David Rosenthal Birth the wine industry in California and America.
- ▶ 2:25:03 David Rosenthal I am opening a, uh, California cab.
- ▶ 2:29:08 David Rosenthal So, the Franzias, completely separate from the Gallows, had their own big-time California wine business in the era before Bottle Shock and Napa and Sonoma coming up, and then during and after.
- ▶ 2:32:30 Ben Gilbert For bringing California wines to people, to the masses in the U.S.
- ▶ 2:34:49 David Rosenthal There is a huge overproduction surplus of wine in California.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:47 David Rosenthal So, in June, 20 10, Demis and Shane managed to get invited to the Singularity Summit in San Francisco, California.
- ▶ 2:53:34 Ben Gilbert He comes up with these 10 stretches of road in California that he thinks will be very difficult to drive.
- ▶ 3:27:13 Ben Gilbert I'm not exaggerating that, and that's on a base of a 150 people when he came in, most of which were seeded in California, not regionally distributed throughout the world.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 44:10 Jamie Dimon But, uh, the whole system was in trouble, but WAMU put us in California, uh, uh, parts of Nevada, Arizona, not Arizona, uh, Georgia, Florida, which we weren't in, so think of these really healthy states, uh, and they had, you know, uh,…
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 11:28 Steve Ballmer But there are these guys down in Pacific Grove, California, you know, and Bill called Gary Kildall and said, there's some guys, they want to talk to you.
- ▶ 2:03:16 Steve Ballmer Okay, so Satya, me, Harry fly down to California, and we meet with Chi Lu, and we talk to Chi, and Chi's brilliant, and we're learning all this stuff about Chi, and Chi leaves the room.
- ▶ 2:53:23 Steve Ballmer We have a high school basketball jersey from every high school in the state of California.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:23 David Rosenthal Kaiser Permanente in California.
- ▶ 1:10:29 David Rosenthal So Kaiser Permanente is this fascinating organization that was started and is headquartered here in California.
- ▶ 1:17:00 David Rosenthal So if you were a doctor in Portland with Kaiser Pacific Northwest, and you wanted to move or your family had to move down to California, you could transfer pretty easily to Northern or Southern California Kaiser.
- ▶ 1:17:13 David Rosenthal So this was happening, and as physicians from the Northwest started coming down to California, they'd be like,
- ▶ 1:20:27 David Rosenthal So, okay, Kaiser's now got to rebid this project, and by this point in time, enough Portland doctors had come down to California and sung Epic's praises that they're like, alright, we should take this little company seriously.
- ▶ 1:24:53 David Rosenthal And the story is that Carl Dvorak, the president, flew in to California the night before the pitch, meets with the team, sees this plan, and is like,
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 6:21 Morris Chang So the following week, I went to, uh, uh, California, and, uh, uh, I called him back without advance notice.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 15:20 David Rosenthal So Don is out chilling in California, like we were talking about, and falling in love with California.
- ▶ 18:45 David Rosenthal However, not to California.
- ▶ 19:03 David Rosenthal The biggest semiconductor company in all types, digital, analog, everything at that time was not in California.
- ▶ 19:28 David Rosenthal Now, Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley, but then it was, yeah, okay, California, I don't know, West Coast, whatever, like TI was the big incumbent.
- ▶ 39:21 David Rosenthal And this is when Silicon Valley in California takes over.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:07 Ben Gilbert That Eduardo Saverin goes from owning a third of this Florida-based LLC to something like two percent of this C-Corp that is a Delaware C-Corp based in California that goes on to become, or is, Facebook Inc.
- ▶ 1:08:21 Ben Gilbert And the justification that they effectively use in changing this structure is, hey, a bunch of us moved to California to start a company together.
- ▶ 1:08:48 Ben Gilbert Ok, so they're in California.
- ▶ 1:15:37 Ben Gilbert I don't think even Mark knows yet that he's moving to California this summer.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:52 Howard Schultz And the story that was told to me is that one or both of them were going to school in California, in the Bay Area, and they became enamored with Pete's Coffee Company, uh, which- Alfred Pete?
- ▶ 7:44 Howard Schultz And we had a big customer in Macy's in Northern California, and I was in California on a sales call, and I had heard that there was a small company in Seattle, Washington was buying a lot of this product, so given the fact I'd never been…
- ▶ 30:12 Howard Schultz Jerry comes to me and says, Jane and I, his wife are going to move to California and we're going to keep Pete's and I'm going to sell Starbucks.
- ▶ 38:53 David Rosenthal Meanwhile, the original Starbucks folks, they've now gone down to California.
- ▶ 38:57 Howard Schultz They went to California.
- ▶ 1:23:10 Howard Schultz I think Howard Behar loved it, people in California loved it.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:31 David Rosenthal Jim heads out to Berkeley in California so that he could do his PhD with the professor Xing-Shen Churn, and much later in life, Jim would collaborate with Churn for the Churn-Simons theory that we talked about earlier that becomes one of…
- ▶ 14:03 David Rosenthal And when they get to California and they get married, Jim takes the 5000 dollar wedding gift that I believe they got from her parents and he decides, I want to multiply this.
- ▶ 38:06 David Rosenthal He decides that he wants to go on a sabbatical and go back to Berkeley and reunite with his old advisor there and go spend some time out on the coast in California.
- ▶ 51:23 David Rosenthal And he tells Jim that he wants to move out to California with Sandor Strauss, who started working with them at this point.
- ▶ 51:33 David Rosenthal And the two of them want to move out to California and do trading out there.
- ▶ 51:43 David Rosenthal Why don't you go move out to California?
- ▶ 52:45 David Rosenthal So once Axe and Strauss get out to California, Strauss, he's kind of on the computing data infrastructure side.
- ▶ 54:10 David Rosenthal The other thing is, Jim says, oh, you're going out to California, let me hook you up with my buddy who's a Berkeley professor out there, Elwyn Berlekamp.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:15 David Rosenthal We start in 1958 in Fresno, California, with The Drop.
- ▶ 6:07 Ben Gilbert And the reason it was named Bank of Italy was it was started by an Italian immigrant who wanted to create something for the underbanked Italians in his California community.
- ▶ 6:52 David Rosenthal Portion of the city of Fresno banked with Bank of America, and that was true for all of California at the time.
- ▶ 9:02 Ben Gilbert California happened to be unique in that you could actually have branches all over the state,
- ▶ 9:08 Ben Gilbert And California happened to have quite a large population, so it was kind of the only place you could pull off a large consumer bank.
- ▶ 9:17 David Rosenthal California was already the second biggest state in the nation at that time behind New York, but the New York banking industry was super fragmented because Bank of America, starting as Bank of Italy with all these immigrants, had built up a…
- ▶ 27:08 David Rosenthal They understand the transformative power that this can have for their scaled consumer banking business in California.
- ▶ 29:59 David Rosenthal A California, you know, homeowner wants to go buy a new refrigerator.
- ▶ 30:44 David Rosenthal And, because we're talking about California here, there is a very high likelihood chance, and I think at the beginning, I suspect a 100% chance,
- ▶ 35:23 David Rosenthal They roll it out quickly across the whole rest of California over the next year, all within the first year.
- ▶ 35:31 David Rosenthal They sign up 20,000 merchants in California and get this.
- ▶ 35:39 David Rosenthal Two million California cardholders signed up using the card in the first year.
- ▶ 38:06 David Rosenthal As we said, this was transformative for their business in California, but they're the biggest bank in America, and they have been itching for any kind of way to expand to truly be the Bank of America.
- ▶ 38:27 David Rosenthal And California is only like, 10% of the US population.
- ▶ 45:09 David Rosenthal One of the examples, I alluded to this earlier, in California, in the
- ▶ 51:42 Ben Gilbert Which is the hills of California, right?
- ▶ 51:53 David Rosenthal You know, the hills, and it's actually in Sonoma, California.
- ▶ 51:57 David Rosenthal So the story is, the B of A team, when they were first rolling out the program, the guy tasked with card design, he lived in Pleasanton, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, where, you know, it's pleasant, and one…
- ▶ 56:05 David Rosenthal Banking, charge card, credit card system is operating at scale in the country, and even though Bank of Merit Card had been operating for a couple years internally to B of A in California, now it's going across state lines.
- ▶ 1:00:39 David Rosenthal If this makes you happy, if this lets us escape back to California, sure.
- ▶ 1:15:49 David Rosenthal Dee and a few of his other fellow committee members, they go to Sausalito, California, just north of San Francisco, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, and they do an offsite for a couple days at a hotel in Sausalito, and there they come…
- ▶ 1:59:10 Ben Gilbert And so they're just operating the whole network out of this data center in California.
- ▶ 2:43:22 David Rosenthal And they were in a unique position at that moment in time in California, where they had such large market share of both consumers and merchants that they could kind of effectively create this network themselves.
- ▶ 3:10:08 David Rosenthal The dynamics that they did within California, that even though New York was still bigger as a state, the market was so fragmented there that none of the banks had enough power to pull this off.
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Follow Up (Raw Video) · Acquired
- ▶ 57:13 Ben Gilbert Like, I think you can maybe only buy it in California, because there's only a certain number of places in Northern California where you could even refuel the fuel cell, however it works, I actually don't know.
- ▶ 1:00:28 Doug DeMuro You know, you live in California, it's kind of a bubble.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:52 David Rosenthal And then, in the middle of his high school years, his parents moved the family from New York City to San Diego, California.
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