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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:06 David Rosenthal In Chicago, in December, 19 oh one, where Walter Elias Disney is born.
- ▶ 6:59 David Rosenthal He was a real estate speculator, among other things, and that is what brought the family to Chicago at the turn of the century.
- ▶ 7:08 David Rosenthal He had invested in a bunch of real estate in Chicago and the Midwest, and so Elias came also to seek his fortune there.
- ▶ 7:15 David Rosenthal Now, when Walt is four, Elias moves the family out of Chicago to an idyllic farm town, also in the Midwest, where Robert had just purchased another tract of real estate
- ▶ 7:38 David Rosenthal He lived in Chicago and Kansas City much longer.
- ▶ 7:44 Ben Gilbert And Elias moved the family because it was kind of like, let's get out of the dangerous city of Chicago and raise the kids right.
- ▶ 8:02 Ben Gilbert Like when it was going to maybe Chicago and Kansas City, and they were like, and this place on the map looks good.
- ▶ 11:51 David Rosenthal So later when Walt enters high school, Elias moves the family back to Chicago again, this time for the jelly factory, which ends up failing where Walt becomes the cartoonist for his high school newspaper, but he's not there long before he…
- ▶ 2:35:38 Ben Gilbert He ends up traveling to the 1948 and 19 49 Chicago train fair, and he kind of dove into this community of fellow train enthusiasts.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:45 David Rosenthal It's organized by one of the country's preeminent sports journalists based in Chicago.
- ▶ 27:50 David Rosenthal It's backed by some high power ownership groups, including the famous Hollywood actor Don Amici in Los Angeles, wealthy businessmen in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Miami, and they have reached a deal with the legendary Ohio State…
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 12:16 Ben Gilbert It's based in Chicago.
- ▶ 13:12 Jamie Dimon if the family's willing to move, uh, and we got a nice, it took us a while, we had lived in a rental for a while, but we got a nice brownstone, and, you know, we ended up loving Chicago.
- ▶ 13:20 Jamie Dimon Chicago's a wonderful city in a lot of different ways, and, and, you know, like I said, it is what you make it, you know, and I, I, I put half my money in the stock at the time.
- ▶ 28:40 David Rosenthal So you run Bank One for four years from Chicago, and then in 2004, you merge with JPMorgan Chase in what is termed at the time a merger of equals.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:48 David Rosenthal Before he sold the business, though, in 1893, Hershey traveled to Chicago, where at the Columbian Exposition, which I didn't know this was the precursor to the World's Fair, he tries chocolate.
- ▶ 45:37 David Rosenthal One night, he's in Chicago in late summer, and he gets instructions from his boss that they really gotta blow it out.
- ▶ 45:45 David Rosenthal They need to hit big time sales numbers here in Chicago.
- ▶ 45:56 David Rosenthal So Forrest goes around, and he puts billboards up all over downtown Chicago.
- ▶ 46:26 David Rosenthal So, from his Chicago prison cell, Forrest makes his one phone call to the only soul that he knows in the area who could possibly bail him out, his estranged father, Frank Mars.
- ▶ 46:59 David Rosenthal There's the whole state of Wisconsin between Minneapolis and Chicago.
- ▶ 50:25 David Rosenthal Now, first question you should be asking here is, wait, Forrest is in college now and ends up in jail in Chicago?
- ▶ 53:32 David Rosenthal That's when he joins the traveling camel cigarette sales team, and that probably is when somewhere or another, maybe it was in Chicago, maybe it was in Minneapolis, he reconnects with his dad, Frank, and discovers that Frank had become a…
- ▶ 57:29 David Rosenthal We gotta move to Chicago.
- ▶ 57:31 David Rosenthal Chicago is the center of the candy industry at this point, but also, it's just a way bigger
- ▶ 57:43 Ben Gilbert If you want to go national, Chicago is a great place to do it.
- ▶ 58:22 David Rosenthal Ok, so, Frank goes along with this idea that they're gonna move to Chicago.
- ▶ 58:39 David Rosenthal He's like, I'll go along with you to Chicago, but really I want to focus on enjoying the fruits of our labor here.
- ▶ 58:46 David Rosenthal So the factory that he builds in Chicago on the inside is really state-of-the-art per Forrest's designs.
- ▶ 1:00:32 David Rosenthal They're buying all the chocolate wholesale from Hershey, which probably is another reason for the move to Chicago of like, hey, we need to be on a main train line, not only to get the product out, we need to be there to get the…
- ▶ 1:10:08 David Rosenthal So Forrest leaves town, not just Chicago, but leaves
- ▶ 1:11:09 David Rosenthal Yeah, the next year, when Frank is just 50 years old, he collapses in the Chicago factory and dies of kidney failure, and Forrest doesn't come back for the funeral.
- ▶ 1:35:49 David Rosenthal Yeah, you can tell how pissed Forrest was at his dad about the Chicago factory specifically, but also just, like, how deep-seated this is.
- ▶ 1:42:16 Ben Gilbert David, you've raised that point that the factories run 24 hours a day and at that Chicago plant.
- ▶ 1:47:39 David Rosenthal So he moves back to America, and of course he has his sights set back on Chicago and Chicago Mars.
- ▶ 2:25:07 David Rosenthal I think he basically, like, relocates to Chicago and is, like, coming in every day.
- ▶ 2:29:54 David Rosenthal So once he takes control, he comes to Chicago, he immediately rips out all the office walls in the building, open floor plan for everybody.
- ▶ 2:31:26 Ben Gilbert And we should say, too, at this point, he has completely overhauled the Chicago factory.
- ▶ 2:32:55 David Rosenthal So, Forrest gives his Chicago plant managers a deadline of six months to start making their own chocolate in the factory, and I suspect they turn profitable on this decision a lot faster than 10 years out, but there are obviously other…
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 46:17 Howard Schultz We went to Chicago to the International Paper Company, and they had a cup, but the cup didn't have a lid, a compatible lid, and so we found, they found a lid, that beautiful sip lid, which is now ubiquitous in the world.
- ▶ 55:20 Howard Schultz That was Gloria Jeans out of Chicago.
- ▶ 55:28 Howard Schultz And that's one of the reasons why I went to Chicago as well in 8788.
- ▶ 55:33 Ben Gilbert Because Chicago was the
- ▶ 55:51 Howard Schultz Said, I will go to Chicago and fix it.
- ▶ 55:55 Howard Schultz He went to Chicago and stayed in Chicago through the winter.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Howard Schultz The halo on Starbucks from Seattle to Vancouver and Chicago was nothing.
- ▶ 1:14:07 Howard Schultz And he was a hundred percent right, and so we didn't, we went to Chicago, went to LA, and we stayed there for quite a while, went to Portland.
- ▶ 1:36:05 David Rosenthal Even at today's scale in their 75th year, they're continuing to innovate with events like their race through the streets of Chicago and growing with over 1000 NASCAR-sanctioned events per year.
- ▶ 2:01:27 Howard Schultz , people were confused whether that was their drink, a lot of anxiety, and the thing I remember the most is that we were in Chicago at eight a.m.,
- ▶ 2:32:41 Howard Schultz So there are six roasteries, starting in Seattle, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Milan.
- ▶ 2:34:44 Howard Schultz We open up in the old Crate and Barrel space in North Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:16:47 Ben Gilbert Chicago is the perfect name in every way.
- ▶ 3:17:25 Ben Gilbert But the Windows-ninety-five team, the Windows-four team, the Chicago team, loved contrasting this idea of, like, a far-flung land that's really ambitious, and who knows what it'll actually be like with this Chicago something we know quite…
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:15 Ben Gilbert Or they've got a microwave line between New Jersey and Chicago, and they're trying to arb the difference between two markets.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:51 Ben Gilbert So you're running a Chicago department store.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:39:24 David Rosenthal He says, go fly out to Chicago, go with Howard White, Jordan's guy at Nike,
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:28 David Senra And so then, then you realize it's like, he says in the book, he's like, his estate outside of Chicago was so big, he had 40 full-time employees.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 53:58 David Rosenthal A former banker from Continental Illinois Bank, where he worked in Chicago, and he was part of the structured financing division at Continental Illinois.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:59 David Rosenthal Um, and then in August, they sign Ameritech, which is one of the largest- Chicago, I think.
- ▶ 1:23:03 David Rosenthal Chicago, yeah.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 30:48 David Rosenthal They were based in Chicago.
- ▶ 33:37 David Rosenthal Butler brothers back in Chicago.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:40 David Rosenthal The reason this comes about is that in one of Marita's trips pretty early, I think trips through the U S he goes to Chicago and he notices the Prudential building and the Prudential building is very, very impressive building on the skyline…
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:57 David Rosenthal Kanye is like a dude from Chicago.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 38:11 David Rosenthal Trying to build this project in Chicago instead.
- ▶ 38:14 David Rosenthal And the idea is that, you know, so we think Chicago is the Midwest, like it was the West then like, you know, the frontier, uh, but it was the biggest city in the frontier.
- ▶ 39:22 Ben Gilbert And so it was convenient that it was in Chicago because he sort of felt like if it's in New York, then people will sort of view it as me trying to influence the public
- ▶ 1:31:58 David Rosenthal There was a judge in Chicago, um, that almost blew up the whole case.
Adapting (by Acquired) Episode 1: Canlis · Acquired
- ▶ 24:12 Mark Canlis They're in Chicago, and we're just gonna work on this so you have the platform, and they cranked it out, working around the clock for a couple of days, and, um, and we were able to launch, and so that is a mechanism that any restaurant in…