General Motors, every mention
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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30 Ben Gilbert General Motors, Nike, Starbucks, Lockheed Martin, Visa, Apple,
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:11 David Rosenthal The other thing he did is Fiat had a ill-fated partnership with GM, with General Motors.
- ▶ 2:24:18 David Rosenthal Out of the partnership and engineers GM paying two billion dollars to Fiat in order to end the partnership.
- ▶ 2:25:26 Ben Gilbert They were in the worst of the positions of Ford, GM, and Chrysler.
- ▶ 3:18:50 Ben Gilbert GM, 10%.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:35:07 David Rosenthal To the, the GM Cadillac versus Ford kind of opposing case studies are really interesting.
- ▶ 3:35:26 David Rosenthal You know, the upside for GM and
- ▶ 3:36:02 David Rosenthal Meanwhile, uh, GM and Cadillac unveiled theirs during the Super Bowl, right?
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:20:48 David Rosenthal It's General Motors, it's Estee Lauder, it's Mattel, and on and on and on.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:26 David Rosenthal I feel like Ben Thompson used to write about this, that it was the American holy trinity of General Motors and the NFL and Procter & Gamble.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:03:59 Ben Gilbert I mean, if the Toyota production system is an example where Toyota tried to, there was that factory, that joint venture with, was it GM?
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:10 David Rosenthal Pierre is also running General Motors at this point in time because DuPont is the largest shareholder in GM.
- ▶ 1:31:46 David Rosenthal But he knew that if he was gonna scale, like, he wants to be DuPont here, you know, he wants to be General Motors.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:40:44 David Rosenthal General Motors, GM, who by the way was not a particularly large Facebook advertiser, announces publicly to the world that they are pulling all their spend off of the Facebook platform because it's not effective.
- ▶ 3:41:25 David Rosenthal They raise sixteen billion dollars at a one hundred and four billion dollar market cap, making it, I think, the third largest IPO of all time at that point behind Visa and, ironically, General Motors coming out of, uh, the bankruptcy…
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:26:19 Ben Gilbert Don't look at the relationship between soybean futures and GM.
Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:41 Charlie Munger In its heyday, General Motors was a great company.
- ▶ 1:01:46 Charlie Munger It just gradually went to hell one contract at a time.
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Follow Up (Raw Video) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:09:33 Doug DeMuro Truly, especially the big three, Ford, GM, and Chrysler, would just make trash, and a certain subset of people would buy it because it was either, either because it was domestic or because they didn't know any better.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:07 David Rosenthal This is including Charles Kettering, the founder of Delco and head of research at GM as part of this.
- ▶ 7:16 David Rosenthal So the idea was they were going to build the General Motors of the Air.
- ▶ 7:38 David Rosenthal Now, shortly after this maybe harebrained GM of the air idea comes together, and Lockheed gets sold to the Detroit Aircraft Corporation, the stock market crash of 1929, and the Great Depression happens, and DAC predictively goes bankrupt.
- ▶ 22:09 David Rosenthal Yeah, very different from how the automobile industry evolved, where, like, obviously Ford and GM and whatnot, they're making their own engines.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:48 David Senra Billy Durant, who's the founder of GM.
- ▶ 1:14:17 David Senra Acquired by GM.
- ▶ 1:14:18 David Senra He is the head of research and development at GM when GM is the most valuable company and most, like, the cutting edge of technology company in the world at the time.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 2:29:37 Ben Gilbert Isn't that crazy that, like, this was the largest at the time, 20 years ago, but now you've got Lehman, Washington Mutual, WorldCom, GM, like, much bigger bankruptcies than Enron since.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 23:46 David Rosenthal His whole family worked on the production lines for General Motors.
- ▶ 24:19 David Rosenthal Which was a training school for members of General Motors employees' families, and the idea was it was kind of like a quasi-vocational school to get them ready to work in the industry.
- ▶ 24:33 David Rosenthal So I believe he works in the company for a little while, and then he ends up getting a chance to go to the prestigious Stanford Business School.
- ▶ 57:38 David Rosenthal His family was also a General Motors family.
- ▶ 1:56:42 David Rosenthal The car companies call them up, GM, General Motors, you know, the original, like, the DNA of two of the partners, you know, they want to do the same thing.
- ▶ 1:57:46 David Rosenthal Like if we have a relationship with Goldman Sachs, if we have a relationship with General Motors, if we have a relationship with Toys R Us and Nordstrom, isn't that helpful to all of our other entrepreneurs?
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:30 Ben Gilbert It's weird that I know that, but I think that's right in an op-ed about how there were, whatever it was, 70 car companies before we narrowed it all the way down to Ford, GM, and Chrysler.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:57 David Rosenthal Was it a, like, a GM?
- ▶ 6:59 Brad Gerstner Yeah, it was, it was a supplier to GM, a supplier to Ford at the time, and remember, our auto industry was under assault by the Japanese auto manufacturers.
Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- ▶ 1:29:59 Michael Mauboussin yeah, I mean, I, I, and by the way, you can go back in time, you know, General Motors,