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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Los Angeles comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 56:04 David Rosenthal While Michael is at the annual Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, he starts experiencing chest pains and has to be rushed back to L.A. into emergency quadruple bypass open heart surgery.
- ▶ 2:35:54 David Rosenthal John and Ed will still run it, and they'll also commute down to LA two days a week, and take over and run Disney Animation.
- ▶ 2:55:50 David Rosenthal Disney launches Cars Land in L.A. in 2012.
- ▶ 4:17:58 David Rosenthal I took my girls to Nintendo Land at Universal Studios in LA.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 23:12 David Rosenthal Have just also skipped town from Kansas City and moved out west to Los Angeles.
- ▶ 23:19 David Rosenthal So Walt packs his belongings, which is basically nothing at this point in time, hops aboard the Santa Fe train bound for LA and joins them in Hollywood.
- ▶ 43:38 David Rosenthal He and Lillian are on the long train ride back home to LA from New York.
- ▶ 44:14 David Rosenthal Now, the real story is more likely that Walt and Lillian get back to L.A.,
- ▶ 1:53:34 David Rosenthal I mean, Walt didn't even graduate high school, let alone go to college, but he intentionally places it in Burbank, which back then was like the sticks outside of LA.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:19 David Rosenthal Jack tells an anecdote at the beginning of, of the book's Stay the Course, which is his memoirs, that around this time, he travels out to Los Angeles, when, while he's there, he gets an urgent message from the head of capital group out…
- ▶ 1:05:35 David Rosenthal Active fund manager in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 3:06:57 David Rosenthal They go international, but probably their closest sort of comp today is Capital Group, the giant firm in Los Angeles that we talked about.
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:18 David Rosenthal One to Tommy Lee, who is a wealthy Cadillac dealer in Los Angeles, and one to Briggs Cunningham, who is one of the Procter & Gamble heirs.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:27 David Rosenthal And then DeLorean goes on to be arrested by an FBI sting in LA attempting to buy 220 pounds of cocaine with the intent to distribute to like pay off his debts for DeLorean.
- ▶ 42:43 David Rosenthal Consummate manager, professional media guy from Los Angeles.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:50 David Rosenthal It's backed by some high power ownership groups, including the famous Hollywood actor Don Amici in Los Angeles, wealthy businessmen in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Miami, and they have reached a deal with the legendary Ohio State…
- ▶ 28:57 David Rosenthal And he wanted to move the Rams to Los Angeles, but the NFL owners by the bylaws, you had to have a hundred percent unanimous approval of all the owners to move a team.
- ▶ 29:14 Ben Gilbert Don't make us figure out how to get these other seven teams to LA once every, whatever it is, six or seven games.
- ▶ 33:16 unnamed speaker The NFL, and especially the Redskins, didn't have a lot of interest in doing so, but moving the Rams to LA forces the league to integrate because the LA Coliseum, where the Rams want to play, is a publicly owned building, and it's…
- ▶ 34:08 unnamed speaker B, not only that, they say, great, we'll sign Kenny Washington, who, before the war, had been a hero in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 34:39 unnamed speaker The Rams have just moved from Cleveland to L.A.
- ▶ 35:16 unnamed speaker So you've got two LA teams.
- ▶ 1:04:44 David Rosenthal Young families, suburbs, West Coast, Los Angeles, television, PR, advertising.
- ▶ 1:05:42 David Rosenthal The second biggest TV market in America in LA, a very wide geographically spread out market where people want to watch football games on TV.
- ▶ 1:07:19 David Rosenthal Speaking of proximity and right down the street, the next move that Roselle makes, remember, he's from LA.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:28 Ben Gilbert And at the L.A. 28 games that will make 100 years of Coca-Cola partnering with the Olympics.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:47 David Rosenthal And I said it a minute ago that Pronto, still relatively little Pronto markets in LA, is Adhor's
- ▶ 1:51:43 David Rosenthal So the classical music radio station in LA.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:53:47 Ben Gilbert Highway one to Los Angeles.
- ▶ 3:01:01 Ben Gilbert Phoenix, San Francisco, LA, Austin, and Atlanta.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 2:26:27 Steve Ballmer I'm a member of a country club in LA, and one of the things country clubs do sometimes is they'll do Q&A with members to entertain, and I did a Q&A with a friend of mine at the club, and who'd been president of the club actually.
- ▶ 2:30:48 Steve Ballmer The only, I mean, the place players want to play is LA.
- ▶ 2:31:00 Steve Ballmer Where do you want to go?
- ▶ 2:31:01 Steve Ballmer Well, you want to go to LA or you want to go to Miami.
- ▶ 2:31:06 Steve Ballmer And if you're a foreign buyer, you know, potentially you want to go to LA.
- ▶ 2:55:04 Steve Ballmer You know, there are battles in tech where you just have to be patient and long-term our goal in LA.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:59:16 David Rosenthal The Heat, the Spurs are the anomaly, because they're not in a major market, but all those other cities, all those other teams I was talking about, San Francisco, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Miami, these are big markets.
- ▶ 2:00:49 David Rosenthal They're in Los Angeles, the biggest media market in the U.S., and oh, guess what?
- ▶ 2:00:57 David Rosenthal The Dodgers have their own TV deal in Los Angeles, which is by far the most valuable.
- ▶ 3:49:46 David Rosenthal In LA, in America, in a big way, and a lot of vested interests are gonna be riding on this Olympics here.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:54:23 Ben Gilbert 1986, Mars acquires Calcan Foods in Los Angeles and begins its association in America with dogs, cats, and their owners.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:36 Ben Gilbert Even before LA.
- ▶ 59:04 Ben Gilbert That you decide to enter on the west coast is LA.
- ▶ 59:11 Howard Schultz I just felt in my bones we had to go to LA.
- ▶ 59:15 Howard Schultz And he said, we're not ready for LA.
- ▶ 59:24 Howard Schultz We're going to LA.
- ▶ 59:40 Howard Schultz We, we did go to L.A.
- ▶ 59:43 Howard Schultz We did go to L.A., and it was fine.
- ▶ 59:46 David Rosenthal And your conviction of, we have to go to L.A., was that for?
- ▶ 1:00:21 Howard Schultz And LA
- ▶ 1:00:30 Howard Schultz When we went to LA, it just exploded because celebrities embraced Starbucks.
- ▶ 1:06:45 Ben Gilbert You did the LA expansion, and then in 1991, which is the year before the IPO, Beanstalk happens.
- ▶ 1:14:07 Howard Schultz And he was a hundred percent right, and so we didn't, we went to Chicago, went to LA, and we stayed there for quite a while, went to Portland.
- ▶ 1:31:30 Howard Schultz And then one day we get a handwritten letter from a Japanese company and the founder of the company, Yuji-san had a LA restaurant and he was enamored with Starbucks.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:18 Ben Gilbert Pei, famous from a number of things, including previous Acquired episode with Michael Ovitz, designed the CAA building in Los Angeles, designed the Louvre pyramid.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:34:00 David Rosenthal We were in the airport flying back from LA.
- ▶ 1:45:01 Ben Gilbert But one of the pieces of life advice, and David, I was telling you about this on our walk in LA up Runyon Canyon, we were down there interviewing Charlie, was that when you're a young person, you should try to become singularly productive.
Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:52 Ben Gilbert Good friend of the show, Andrew Marks, organized a little dinner for us with Charlie Munger and a few other folks at Charlie's home in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 15:03 Charlie Munger That little grocery store chain here in Los Angeles, Gelson Brothers.
Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Follow Up (Raw Video) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:44 Doug DeMuro I talked to a Toyota dealership in LA who told me they usually have 800 cars on their lot.
- ▶ 1:03:57 Doug DeMuro But like when I'm driving up to LA on a Thursday and it's, you know, traffic,
- ▶ 1:05:42 Doug DeMuro There's a reason they're testing all these things in Phoenix, in LA, in the Bay.
- ▶ 1:06:59 Doug DeMuro You could drive from LA to San Francisco completely, 100% hands-off, except when you have to go and refuel.
- ▶ 1:07:15 Doug DeMuro One of them is down in L.A., and I see it fairly frequently.
- ▶ 1:07:47 Doug DeMuro I mean, I ended up driving up to LA a lot and Orange County a lot, and it's just, it's such a slog.
- ▶ 1:19:23 Doug DeMuro The, we got, we, the churnin group, which is like a private equity firm in LA that primarily specializes in these businesses like ours, which is like a business that creators lead.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:38 David Rosenthal Operating out of Los Angeles called Fedco.
- ▶ 16:08 David Rosenthal After the war, about 800 postal workers in the Los Angeles area decided somehow that they wanted to pool their buying power together and their federal employees.
- ▶ 17:16 David Rosenthal So, as you can imagine, Fedco becomes quite popular amongst government employees in the LA area, and then not just the LA area, people start driving from all over Southern California, including San Diego, sometimes up to, like, hundreds of…
- ▶ 17:48 David Rosenthal So Saul and the jewelry guys, they see what's happening with all of the wholesale business that they're sending to Fedco up in LA.
- ▶ 18:45 David Rosenthal He calls up the Fedco board of directors in LA and he says, Hey, we want to partner with you guys.
- ▶ 24:42 David Rosenthal Clearly, Fedco had proved the model in LA.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:32 David Rosenthal He eventually opens Nike's first retail store in LA.
- ▶ 3:17:15 David Rosenthal And the cities are like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio, Paris, etc.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:06 Ben Gilbert Its decommissioning mission, just to show off how fast it ever went, was one hour and five minutes from LA to DC.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 55:27 Ben Gilbert Yeah, very socially connected, people hanging out in backlots in LA, part of the studio.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:49:46 Mitch Lasky She actually was a district attorney in the Hardcore Gangs Unit in LA, and so
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43 David Rosenthal We covered a ton of ground, including that I think two nights before we recorded, David was just coming up from LA where he had dinner with Charlie Munger, and so we spent a lot of time talking about that.
- ▶ 1:17:04 David Senra Um, I was leaving, going to LA to see Charlie, and then coming up to San Francisco to see you guys, and she texts me.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Gilbert Medina side, Seattle side, LA.
- ▶ 11:08 Peter Fenton We've been in LA, we've been in Seattle.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 11:08 Jason Calacanis and then I started one called Digital Coast Reporter in L.A.
- ▶ 13:55 Jason Calacanis Um, and so then when he was there, I was in LA, uh, and.
- ▶ 15:39 Jason Calacanis He finally was in L.A., he came on the pod, and then people, I was like, he's really good on stage, like, he's funny, whatever, and so.
- ▶ 51:18 Jason Calacanis Brooklyn and Manhattan, and then I lived in L.A., and then I lived here, and so I think my, I'm moving to places I enjoy less and less each time.
- ▶ 51:29 Jason Calacanis I enjoyed Brooklyn and Manhattan much more than L.A., I enjoyed L.A. much more than San Francisco, so.
- ▶ 51:40 Jason Calacanis I came up here because I had a lot of friends up here, and I had done L.A.,
- ▶ 51:59 Jason Calacanis Well, Michael Morris used to call me the mouth from the south, because they had like two investments in LA.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 8:25 Howard Marks For live streaming, and so we were in L.A., which of course is Oaktree's headquarters.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:42 Katherine Boyle I'll share the story of how I met Hadrian, which was my first investment since being at Andreessen Horowitz, and sort of how that relationship blossomed, because that's another Los Angeles-based company, typically not a place where VCs…
- ▶ 1:02:08 Katherine Boyle It's being built in Los Angeles at the heart of our defense and aerospace industry.
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:29 David Rosenthal How much was on location in San Francisco versus, I assume, mostly filmed in LA and studios?
- ▶ 39:36 Joseph Gordon-Levitt It was, uh, really just a few days of exteriors in San Francisco, and the rest is, uh, yeah, in LA, mostly on, you know, the Paramount lot in sound stages.