IKEA, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IKEA comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:02 David Rosenthal Ikea.
- ▶ 2:18:10 Ben Gilbert Or it's Costco, but it's for furniture, like Ikea.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:02:19 David Rosenthal And then now his three separate foundations, kind of just like the Ikea structure from that episode, own Trader Joe's.
- ▶ 3:15:23 Ben Gilbert And on our Ikea episode, it said really important that it's family and foundation controlled.
- ▶ 3:26:54 Ben Gilbert I also think you'll probably like Ikea.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:26 Ben Gilbert This is IKEA all over again.
- ▶ 3:27:46 Ben Gilbert She is singularly focused on making Epic great in her life, just like Ingvar Kamprad and Ikea.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:12 Ben Gilbert I think they're even more secretive than Ikea or Mars.
- ▶ 3:24:12 David Rosenthal Than Ikea, because Ikea is this rat's nest of all these different structures and all these different, you know, country foundations that they're in.
- ▶ 4:19:29 David Rosenthal It's totally an IKEA situation.
- ▶ 4:19:34 Ben Gilbert And in Ikea, we can see it in annual reports.