Germany, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Germany comes up
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.