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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:58 David Rosenthal Which is that Alpha got out of the racing business for a reason, because Hitler is coming to power in Germany, and one of Hitler's most, you know, kind of important national agenda items is making sure that his German auto industry
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:15 David Rosenthal It didn't take long after the invention of the modern automobile, which is generally agreed upon to be by Carl Benz in Germany in the late 1800, that people had the idea to start racing them.
- ▶ 7:37 David Rosenthal As the automobile club of France, you had Monza pop up in Italy, the Monte Carlo race in Monaco, you had the Nürburgring in Germany, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 10:43 David Rosenthal If anything, given the proto-history, it should have been France or maybe Germany.
- ▶ 10:57 David Rosenthal One, unlike Germany, they'd actually just won the war, but the country was in bad shape and like in desperate need of entertainment and redevelopment.
- ▶ 25:45 Ben Gilbert Where are the Germans in all of this?
- ▶ 1:50:09 David Rosenthal The second race in Germany that wasn't the Nürburgring, the second race in Italy that wasn't Monza, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:49 Ben Gilbert I think when we recorded, there was just games in London and Germany, or maybe we were one year off from that, but there are now seven international games across five countries, and they have publicly stated that there is a goal to get to…
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:29 David Rosenthal Sprite is Fanta clear lemon from Germany.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54:54 David Rosenthal And they sold it to Theo Albrecht, the owner of Aldi Nord, which is one half of the Aldi global megastore super chain headquartered in Germany.
- ▶ 1:55:55 David Rosenthal Tao bought it himself personally, and yes, Trader Joe's is now owned by the three German foundations that he set up for after his passing.
- ▶ 1:58:40 David Rosenthal Aldi had been expanding into America, out of Germany.
- ▶ 1:59:13 David Rosenthal They actually hire investment bankers to go over from Germany and start scouring the US looking for other grocers or retailers in the US that they could acquire and have Aldi Nord also enter.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:32 David Rosenthal He got his PhD in Germany.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:18:44 Ben Gilbert You've got, uh, what's Germany's league, David?
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:53 David Rosenthal Well, we start, as is so often the case with these big old European companies, back not in the last century, but even the century before that, on March 22nd in 1881 in Kulmbach, Bavaria, about 30 miles north of Nuremberg in present-day…
- ▶ 6:24 Ben Gilbert Bavaria wasn't a part of Germany, right?
- ▶ 7:01 David Rosenthal They don't identify with this Germany thing.
- ▶ 10:37 David Rosenthal And while he's there in boarding school there in Bavaria, he meets a friend who is from Switzerland, and he develops an interest in that country, and he no longer really has any family ties or anything to Bavaria anymore, doesn't really…
- ▶ 42:10 Ben Gilbert And feels no affiliation to Germany.
- ▶ 54:34 David Rosenthal And you just experience like, oh, Britain puts these tariffs on, and gosh, well, I didn't really have a market for Rolexes in Germany before, but if I did, I wouldn't have been able to sell in Germany, and like, I don't want that to happen…
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:40 Ben Gilbert Well, ASML actually needed to invent a new type of mirror to do this, and they also needed a contract with a German company to make this special type of laser, which is the only known company in the world capable of making it.
- ▶ 2:15:48 David Rosenthal The analogy back to German beer factories and outsourcing electricity generation.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:55 Ben Gilbert It's Germany?
- ▶ 7:56 David Rosenthal It's Germany.
- ▶ 7:58 David Rosenthal So, Ingvar's grandmother and grandfather had immigrated there to small land from Germany.
- ▶ 8:11 David Rosenthal So they bought the farm, Almterud, sight unseen, when they were in Germany, from an advertisement in a local hunting magazine.
- ▶ 8:35 Ben Gilbert This is like pre-World War I Germany, too.
- ▶ 8:51 David Rosenthal Ingvar's grandfather, H.M., had been connected to the timber trade in Germany, so the idea makes sense on paper.
- ▶ 9:54 David Rosenthal Turns out the actual reason for the family's immigration from Germany was more about Francisca and H.M.'s marriage and Francisca's family.
- ▶ 10:07 David Rosenthal So H.M. had been from a noble family in Germany, or at least a family with historically, you know, ties to the nobility.
- ▶ 10:22 David Rosenthal HM's parents, and particularly his mother, was not happy about this, didn't approve of the marriage, and so part of, or really probably the whole reason for their emigration from Germany to Sweden was to escape this.
- ▶ 1:24:21 Ben Gilbert In Germany?
- ▶ 1:24:22 David Rosenthal Yeah, I think it was in Germany at night.
- ▶ 1:34:30 Ben Gilbert In the seventies, they opened in Japan, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
- ▶ 2:05:20 Ben Gilbert I mean, his grandparents had immigrated from Germany, had very strong feelings, had lived this horrible life, and Ingvar very much looked up to his grandma and sort of looked to her for political, moral, social guidance.
- ▶ 2:16:13 Ben Gilbert The strategy shift is to start opening small stores in cities, starting in Hamburg, Germany.
- ▶ 2:42:59 David Rosenthal And Germany is still bigger than the U.S., I think.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:08 David Rosenthal There was a fairly big competitor in Germany, I think maybe called Studyvice or something like that.
- ▶ 55:15 David Rosenthal Facebook could really easily go into Germany, and people in Germany would be like, oh, Facebook, I've heard of that, this is interesting.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:22 Daniel Ek What happened in Germany is all the record companies started uploading audiobooks to the service.
- ▶ 37:34 Daniel Ek So I mentioned this at the beginning, but Germany was sort of an early indicator
- ▶ 37:44 Daniel Ek And, uh, what I realized even before we launched books, for instance, uh, was, uh, around 2018, we started seeing books showing up on the top list in Germany, uh, of the most, uh, sort of, you know, uh, listened to music tracks, right?
- ▶ 38:05 Daniel Ek Um, surely thereafter we started showing up as the biggest book distributor in the country, but we weren't even trying, and it was actually a pretty horrible experience to listen to books on Spotify.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:27 David Rosenthal Germany.
- ▶ 6:27 David Rosenthal So, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Napoleon essentially stages a coup, declares himself Emperor, first of France, and then he basically begins conquering all of continental Europe, including Germany.
- ▶ 8:31 David Rosenthal In 1821, Thierry leaves Creffield, leaves Germany, he abandons his original kind of destiny as an innkeeper, and he moves to France, not to Paris, but to Normandy in the north, and there he becomes an apprentice under a master craftsman…
- ▶ 10:45 David Rosenthal I mean, here he's this immigrant from Germany, apprenticed in Normandy, he shows up in Paris,
- ▶ 2:25:02 David Rosenthal They were the largest shareholder in a German company that makes what is really a piece of technology, an old piece of technology, but not something that should be a luxury brand.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 52:42 David Rosenthal Germany just takes over the country.
- ▶ 53:17 David Rosenthal Well, Germany just took over Denmark.
- ▶ 53:46 David Rosenthal All throughout Scandinavia, all throughout Europe, and when Germany takes over Denmark, Insulin Novo is now, you know, the ethics of this are really complicated.
- ▶ 54:15 David Rosenthal To massively expand production and supply insulate, you know, not only to Germany, but to France, to Poland, to Austria, to all, everywhere in continental Europe, basically.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:30 David Rosenthal So after World War I, when Germany was totally decimated, but before World War II, he becomes, like, a fairly well-known elite cobbler, shoe purveyor, track cleat purveyor to Olympians at the time.
- ▶ 15:55 David Rosenthal Literally beating Hitler in Berlin, in Germany, in Adidas shoes.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:16 David Rosenthal There's a pretty long and incredible history of science and engineering in Germany and Austria.
- ▶ 3:26 David Rosenthal And actually, before World War II, Germany had produced more Nobel laureates in scientific fields than any other nation in the world.
- ▶ 4:21 David Rosenthal Either way, though, Germany definitely did create the first successful production consumer automobile.
- ▶ 7:18 David Rosenthal So when Ferdinand takes this, uh, new post as the head of engineering at Daimler, he moves his family from Austria, where he was the potting prize winner, to Stuttgart in Germany.
- ▶ 8:48 Doug DeMuro Which was important because in Germany in that time, car ownership was not anywhere near as, as big as it was in the United States.
- ▶ 9:56 David Rosenthal So once he leaves, Ferdinand bumps around for a little while, and then in 1931, he starts a consulting firm to kind of advise other car companies, not Daimler-Benz, but other car companies in Germany and, and Europe, and I think in America…
- ▶ 15:26 Doug DeMuro And we'll talk more as we get to post-war, but like in Germany at the time, it's like a real, you know, important, practical family car.
- ▶ 15:46 David Rosenthal Hitler creates a new city in Germany known as the, then called the city of the strength through joy car.
- ▶ 17:50 David Rosenthal So what happens is Wolfsburg ends up in the hands of the British at the end of the war, uh, and there's this whole crazy thing in Germany of, like, all the Allied armies are coming in, and literally Germany and Berlin ends up getting
- ▶ 19:37 David Rosenthal He also sees, and this becomes increasingly obvious as the post-World War II state of world affairs takes place here in Germany of like, hey, the, like the Cold War is about to start.
- ▶ 20:43 Doug DeMuro It was the whole, all these places were in similar situations to Germany in that, like, the people needed to get back to work, they needed to be able to drive and go places, and each European country had their own Beetle.
- ▶ 21:16 Doug DeMuro But in Germany, of course, the Beetle became a global hit, whereas in those countries it was more, you know, in their era.
- ▶ 24:02 David Rosenthal And that happens to be quite convenient because during the last days of the war, as Stuttgart and other large scale German military production facilities were getting bombed by the allies,
- ▶ 30:46 David Rosenthal The Beetle was the, you know, main kind of chassis platform for a lot of military vehicles for, for Germany during the war.
- ▶ 33:16 Doug DeMuro People in Germany started to get some money.
- ▶ 33:54 Doug DeMuro And in Germany, it was the three 56.
- ▶ 34:18 David Rosenthal It's, it's like the vision they're gonna, you know, make the Beetle for, for Germany and for the world.
- ▶ 41:59 David Rosenthal So we talked about a minute ago the Iron Curtain and the Soviets, like, it's so hard for us to remember now, but Germany post-war was ground zero for the Cold War.
- ▶ 42:30 David Rosenthal And this is essentially part of this philosophy of like, we don't care that these people used to be Nazis, but for Porsche, for Mercedes Benz, for lots and lots of German industrialist companies, the reason that they get restarted and re
- ▶ 43:36 David Rosenthal But for these new old industrialists above a certain income, Germany sets the marginal tax rate at 95%.
- ▶ 1:56:37 David Rosenthal He says, we don't want to be Germany's Ferrari.
- ▶ 1:59:12 David Rosenthal Part of this was a cultural, you know, German thing for sure, but, uh, like not understanding America, but, um, I don't think anybody understood, like,
- ▶ 2:02:13 David Rosenthal Porsche starts a new, whole new production facility in a new part of Germany and Leipzig, uh, to make it.
- ▶ 2:12:25 David Rosenthal The German tax regime still is not very favorable to distributing profits.
- ▶ 2:16:23 David Rosenthal And in VW's case in particular, there was actually a law in, on the books in German law called the Volkswagen law.
- ▶ 2:16:46 David Rosenthal They didn't envision that it would be another German auto company that would try to take it over.
- ▶ 2:17:24 David Rosenthal Yes, and part of the reason this all was able to happen is there was a lot of speculation that this German Volkswagen law, uh, would be illegal under new EU regulations.
- ▶ 2:44:04 Ben Gilbert But the reason that I put that caveat in there, because it's at 26% is, is China, they split out Germany from Europe and call them two different regions, so they have Germany.
- ▶ 2:44:17 Ben Gilbert Like, Germany...
- ▶ 2:44:19 Ben Gilbert Is 10%, and rest of Europe, excluding Germany, is 23%.
- ▶ 2:48:56 Ben Gilbert Yeah, in Germany.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 56:48 Dara Khosrowshahi So like we're in Germany, we're in Spain, we're in Japan, we're in Korea, we're in Turkey.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:59 David Rosenthal A new technology is appearing on the German side.
- ▶ 16:03 David Rosenthal Jet-powered fighter planes have begun to pop up, and we're not a military history podcast, save this for Hardcore History and Dan Carlin, but my understanding of this is that the German jet fighters entered the war too late to make a…
- ▶ 17:40 David Rosenthal So the German plane that had started appearing in the skies over Europe was the Messerschmitt
- ▶ 18:23 David Rosenthal With the spec that it must go faster than the German Swallow.
- ▶ 20:17 David Rosenthal For years, the U.S. had been working on this technology, and they hadn't gotten it operationalized, the Germans beat them to it, and then in a 143 days, Kelly and Lockheed go from zero to flying prototype.
- ▶ 2:57:27 Ben Gilbert Finland bought 64, Germany 35, Greece 20, the Czech 24, Canada 88, Poland 32,
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 4:52 Daniel Ek For instance, in Germany, unbeknownst to us, but one of the, the sort of crazy things that ended up happening was just people started uploading audio books because it turns out that, um, these music labels actually own a bunch of audio…
- ▶ 7:17 Daniel Ek Because we had already seen the behavior happening, uh, in Germany.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 2:22:39 Ben Gilbert They pulled out of Germany, right?
- ▶ 2:22:40 David Rosenthal They pulled out of Germany.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:03 Ben Gilbert I think maybe Germany.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 13:52 Packy McCormick Fly to Germany for a day and come home or fly down to Miami to go to Miami Herald and then make it home by four o'clock that night to take us to the fair and then fly back out the next morning.