Manhattan, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 19Ben Gilbert 6Jason Calacanis 2David Senra 2Packy McCormick 1Mark Canlis 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Manhattan comes up
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:53:54 David Rosenthal Twice the size of Manhattan.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:02 David Rosenthal We're going to move league headquarters to New York, to Manhattan.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:21:35 Ben Gilbert In Manhattan.
- ▶ 4:21:36 Ben Gilbert I mean, they own a building in Manhattan.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 43:07 David Rosenthal It was based in New York, in Manhattan, in New York City, actually, to go be their COO, the number two there, with an understanding that, like, hey, if things go well in a couple of years, you'll replace the CEO, become the CEO there.
- ▶ 43:44 David Rosenthal So he goes off to New York, you know, he leaves Texas, lives in Manhattan,
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:45 David Rosenthal In, you know, post-World War II, economic prosperity, beginning of the Mad Men years in New York and Manhattan, a New York businessman named Frank McNamara is hosting a lavish business dinner in downtown.
- ▶ 18:31 David Rosenthal There really should be a business person-focused charge card network that would work at all the restaurants in Manhattan where business people host dinners.
- ▶ 20:10 David Rosenthal The reality is Frank just thought this would be a good business idea, and he was right.
- ▶ 20:22 David Rosenthal This was like Harvard and Facebook, because restaurants in Manhattan
- ▶ 20:34 David Rosenthal No restaurateur in Manhattan, no matter how good they are, really honestly believes that a majority of their customers are only going to dine at their restaurant.
- ▶ 23:04 David Rosenthal They have to now go canvas the entire island of Manhattan and ultimately, you know, the whole country and world and sign up all of these merchants and go sign up all of these companies to get their employees to use it.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:51 David Senra Um, and so what she would do, she had a desk in Chemical Bank in Manhattan, so the, the advantage there is geography.
- ▶ 2:32:15 David Senra oh yeah, he, uh, gave us, he, he picked us up in Manhattan in his private helicopter, and we landed at his Hampton State.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:50 David Rosenthal Manhattan in New York City.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:52 Ben Gilbert That he could operate the business in because Manhattan is not a wonderful place to be running a sort of bootstrapped startup at the time.
- ▶ 1:08:26 David Rosenthal Relentless, like, I wouldn't be relentless if I ran a cushy skyscraper in Manhattan.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38 David Rosenthal Manhattan in New York City.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 25:31 David Rosenthal Am I hearing you right that you wrote your business school application about starting a quote-unquote company to bus drunk people from Manhattan to the Jersey Shore and the Hamptons?
- ▶ 32:29 Packy McCormick Turns out one of the challenges of that thesis is in Manhattan.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 15:24 Ben Gilbert And they're working remotely from Manhattan.
- ▶ 38:39 Ben Gilbert And two more benefits too, one of which is it's really expensive to build stuff in Manhattan,
- ▶ 43:03 David Rosenthal They buy a farm on the east side of Manhattan, uh, uh, overlooking, uh, overlooking the Easter River, uh, in the, in the sixth, like the upper sixties, you know, like literally in the middle of Manhattan, there's this farm and they
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 8:46 David Rosenthal Uh, speaking of, okay, so we start in 1810 in New York, in Ancrum, New York, which is actually, like, not that far from Manhattan.
- ▶ 8:55 David Rosenthal It's about two hours by car north of Manhattan, but back in those days was a different world, uh,
- ▶ 1:47:30 David Rosenthal In 1883 official Standard Oil headquarters moves to Manhattan to New York City and Rockefeller himself.
- ▶ 1:47:40 David Rosenthal 26 Broadway to Manhattan to 26 Broadway.
Adapting (by Acquired) Episode 1: Canlis · Acquired
- ▶ 0:59 Ben Gilbert While opening, famed restaurateur Danny Meyer's fifth restaurant, Blue Smoke, in Manhattan.
- ▶ 20:36 Mark Canlis Um, our expediter happens to be this incredible woman from the Lower East Side of Manhattan,