Illinois, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 5Ben Gilbert 2Charlie Munger 1Brendan Eich 1Brad Gerstner 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Illinois comes up
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:04:50 Ben Gilbert So what happens is, Ray Kroc, in 1955, one of the first things he does when he gets the expansion rights to expand McDonald's is to look for a beverage supplier for this new Illinois location that he is opening.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:38 David Rosenthal At SGI, he cold emails the kid in Illinois, Mark Andreessen.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:47 Ben Gilbert So you've got, let's say you're running a department store, and keep going with the Illinois example that you said.
- ▶ 1:04:40 David Rosenthal Let's take Illinois again to stick with this.
- ▶ 1:04:42 David Rosenthal You've got a bunch of banks in Illinois that are now all part of the bank AmeriCard payment network, which is intimately linked with their banking operations.
- ▶ 1:04:51 David Rosenthal If I'm any one of those banks, I would want to say like, hey, no, I want to be the only bank in Illinois doing this.
- ▶ 1:14:20 David Rosenthal He needs to be able to go to, say, the couple banks in Illinois that are existing franchisees of the Bank of Merit Card system and say, hey, the new regulations, the new operating laws for this organization are going to be all the banks in…
Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:03 Charlie Munger I said, that's a graveyard for Illinois, so why would you want to do that?
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:39 Brad Gerstner You know, ended up at, at Bradley in, in Illinois.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:02 Brendan Eich Yes, so I was a grad student at UIUC, which was, may still be top five CS school in the country, out in the middle of Illinois, and I was not going to do a PhD.