Florida, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Florida comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37 Ben Gilbert A privately owned government inside the state of Florida.
- ▶ 5:50 David Rosenthal Epcot has just launched in Florida, not as Walt Disney's utopian dream of a city of the future, but as a massively over budget and underwhelming World's Fair knockoff that the company has sunk hundreds of millions of dollars deep into debt…
- ▶ 48:34 David Rosenthal He makes the parks in especially Florida a resort.
- ▶ 48:38 David Rosenthal It goes from, ah, yeah, we got Disney World, and we got Epcot, and sure, come to Florida.
- ▶ 3:41:44 Ben Gilbert They, they announced they're moving a bunch of Imagineers to Florida, and then they cancel that expansion, even after a bunch of them, like, already bought houses.
- ▶ 3:41:53 Ben Gilbert Then there's the whole spat between Chapek and the governor of Florida.
- ▶ 3:54:51 Ben Gilbert After you finish up at Disney World for three or four days, you may want to go hop on a cruise for three or four days, and so you sort of depart from Florida and then go down to the Bahamas and come back up.
- ▶ 3:55:29 Ben Gilbert Thirty billion of it will be used in domestic parks in Florida and Anaheim.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:47:54 Ben Gilbert He does have a nagging concern that an East Coast audience is more sophisticated than a West Coast audience, and there isn't demand for a theme park like Disneyland in Florida.
- ▶ 3:48:32 David Rosenthal Well, obviously, if Disney is gonna do anything on the East Coast, it should be in Florida.
- ▶ 3:48:40 David Rosenthal I mean, it has the warmest year-round weather, and even more important...
- ▶ 3:48:44 David Rosenthal Abundant cheap land all throughout the state.
- ▶ 3:49:57 David Rosenthal Move their most advanced R&D teams to this new city in Florida.
- ▶ 3:52:39 David Rosenthal With full self-governing infrastructure, so schools, public services, everything, and it is all going to be founded as a new city in the state of Florida.
- ▶ 3:53:12 David Rosenthal So on November 1519 65, Walt, along with Roy and the then governor of Florida, Hayden Burns, hold a press conference where they announce that Disney has been buying land in central Florida
- ▶ 3:53:36 David Rosenthal And that a very large new Disney project will be coming to the state, and that planning has already begun, and they will be seeking public approvals.
- ▶ 3:53:56 David Rosenthal Uh, it's almost 40 square miles that they have purchased in the middle of Florida, and it's all swampland right now.
- ▶ 3:58:53 Ben Gilbert And, uh, they run the show there in Florida.
- ▶ 3:59:31 Ben Gilbert Copy paste of Disneyland in Florida for four hundred million dollars with two hotels and no debt.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:38 David Rosenthal And there were wealthy business people in cities all across America, East Coast, Midwest, the South, Florida, who wanted to add teams and come into the NFL.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:18:10 Ben Gilbert They go big and get a huge plot of land in Florida to build Walt Disney 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,…
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31:29 David Rosenthal In Daytona Beach, Florida.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 40:44 David Rosenthal This is 1980 by a new group based out of Boca Raton, Florida.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:25 David Rosenthal Mark invests another thousand dollars, so together there's 2000 dollars of investment in the facebook.com, and the deal they strike is that Mark gets two-thirds of the company, and Eduardo gets one-third of the company, and Eduardo sets up…
- ▶ 58:42 David Rosenthal Eduardo was from Florida.
- ▶ 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.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:59 David Rosenthal In Boca Raton, Florida.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:50 David Rosenthal They were following the old sort of trade routes of the FedMart playbook of Arizona, Texas, Florida, going out across the South and the Midwest.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:16 Doug DeMuro When Peter Schutz retired, he moved to Naples, Florida, and the general counsel at Porsche and Peter Schutz were neighbors in their homes in Naples.
- ▶ 3:17:24 Doug DeMuro Um, he got a, he got a Chevy pickup with, with tires so big that he was able to drive it out into a bay in Florida.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:08 Mitch Lasky At a Woolworths in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- ▶ 1:53:14 Mitch Lasky Like back in those days, like, and we went, we went actually to the Hasbro pre-Toy Fair, uh, thing in, in Boca Raton, Florida of all places where they were, they'd taken over a hotel and in every ballroom in the hotel, one of the brands…
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:00 David Rosenthal Because Flagler moved to Florida later in life.
- ▶ 8:44 David Senra The, the government of Florida, they create the Flagler Law, which allows him to get a divorce.
- ▶ 2:56:54 Ben Gilbert Like, how do you make sure it gets to Florida?
- ▶ 3:03:41 David Senra You're gonna make a lot of money.
- ▶ 3:15:50 David Senra It'd be interesting, like, what you would, uh, yeah, but then again, I was, I was living in Florida, and like, the law there is not a lot, like, you'd have to move to like, DC, like, the law there is like, insurance, like,
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 15:30 David Rosenthal After a few years, he goes back into industry at Florida Gas, a pipeline company in Florida, as the president and number two operator within the company.
- ▶ 16:18 David Rosenthal So, late seventies, early eighties, he's the number two executive at this natural gas pipeline company in Florida.
- ▶ 17:04 David Rosenthal So Lay is now in the big time, and as is fitting for now being in the big time and of the era, he leaves his wife behind in Florida and moves to Houston with his new wife, who was his secretary at Florida Gas.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 24:33 David Rosenthal So when Jeff's a teenager for high school, Exxon moves his dad to Florida, first to Pensacola and then to Miami.
- ▶ 1:01:34 Ben Gilbert As folks know, there is no state income tax in Washington State, much like Florida or Texas.
- ▶ 1:01:39 David Rosenthal But you would think, given Jeff's history, Florida or Texas would make more sense.
- ▶ 1:06:00 David Rosenthal Probably not Florida.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:07 David Rosenthal Somebody is gonna come bring discounting to Arkansas and Missouri and Texas and Florida and everywhere else, and those stores are dead.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:31 Katherine Boyle And so I do think the centralization that we saw in tech, maybe over the last say decade, we're now experiencing this decentralization and, you know, the fact that I'm investing from Florida of all places, which, you know, I grew up in…
- ▶ 1:07:50 Katherine Boyle I loved Florida.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 7:20 David Rosenthal Please welcome from the capital of Silicon Valley, Miami, Florida.
- ▶ 1:30:06 Ben Gilbert We want to say a huge congratulations to Vouch on their Washington launch and their Florida launch recently, but I can say as a Washington resident, I'm very excited for all of our Pioneer Square Labs companies to have the opportunity to…