Germany, every mention
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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.