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Home Depot: The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 since IPO (Audio) Sep 14, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:58 David Rosenthal That quickly leads him to becoming a concessionaire in a New York area discount store. 2 times in the scene

The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired Jun 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:20 David Rosenthal It was like very, very early, and to the extent that it did exist as entertainment and shorts, short films, cartoons on its own, it was all based in New York, like not in Kansas City.
  • ▶ 23:57 Ben Gilbert He's seen some of the stuff that comes out of the New York cartooning scene, and he's like, well, I'll never be as good as them, so I need to go start over something completely new.
  • ▶ 25:37 David Rosenthal Which is created by Pat Sullivan out of New York and distributed by the pioneering Margaret Winkler, also in New York.
  • ▶ 1:53:43 David Rosenthal He wanted the Disney lot, the Disney studio to be this special place kind of away from all these other studios controlled by their distributor bosses back in New York.
  • ▶ 2:04:50 David Rosenthal So, on May 2919 41, the Screen Cartoonists Guild, which is a union that had unionized every other major animation studio in Hollywood and New York over the couple years leading up to this.

Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired Jan 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:13:49 Ben Gilbert Like the new Giants-Jets one in New York is funded by the team in the NFL, whereas like the Bills one is going to be funded by the state of New York, largely.

Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired Nov 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:14 David Rosenthal He's interviewing Bill Gates at the Newsweek headquarters office in New York shortly after Gmail comes out, and then they started talking about Gmail, and Bill can't believe it.

The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired Jun 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:27 Steve Ballmer Most of them to South Florida, a couple of them to New York, leave on the Red Eye, the Delta Dash flight at around 11, get into Atlanta around five, get the flight to West Palm Beach at about seven, get in and be able to be at a meeting at…

Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

TSMC · Acquired Jan 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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,
  • ▶ 43:59 David Rosenthal GI is this New York based, they were almost like at the time, like a proto tech private equity firm.

Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired Dec 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:56:57 David Rosenthal Forrest says, what if I told you that I have had these candies in my pocket all the way on the trip here from New York?

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:13 David Rosenthal When Mark Elliott Zuckerberg is born as the second of four children to Karen and Ed Zuckerberg in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
  • ▶ 1:07:47 David Rosenthal Eduardo had an internship in New York and decided that he was not gonna move out for the summer.

Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired Mar 18, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 35:55 David Rosenthal But it did have one very important thing going for it, which is why Jim ended up there, and that is that Nelson Rockefeller, who was then the governor of New York, had launched a campaign, a hundred million dollar campaign, to try and turn…
  • ▶ 1:12:44 Ben Gilbert So it's now the Jim Simons show in New York with Strauss building the engineering systems, and Axe, I think, still had a small stake.
  • ▶ 2:08:19 David Rosenthal When people come into Rentech, they obviously have way less wealth than the people who've been there for a long time, both from the direct returns that you're getting every year from working there, and just your investment percentage of…
  • ▶ 2:21:49 David Rosenthal Well, I think it's lifelong NDAs and non-competes as long as the state of New York legally allows for, but that is not lifetime.
  • ▶ 3:02:43 David Rosenthal Well, there's the whole crazy thing with Chanel where the company ends up getting bought by Chanel the perfume division, which is the two Jewish brothers in New York.

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired Jan 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:28:07 Ben Gilbert We've seen all the headlines about it being rampant in wealthy New York neighborhoods or around Hollywood, but let's segment that away for a moment and say, well, ok,

Visa (Audio) · Acquired Nov 27, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 4:58 Ben Gilbert It's like one of the only essential pieces of financial infrastructure in the United States that has not run out of New York.
  • ▶ 7:53 David Rosenthal They were white shoe corporate banks based in New York.
  • ▶ 9:17 David Rosenthal California was already the second biggest state in the nation at that time behind New York, but the New York banking industry was super fragmented because Bank of America, starting as Bank of Italy with all these immigrants, had built up a…
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 1:49:15 Ben Gilbert I just hope it doesn't slow things down, because, you know, they'll have to call New York, and then they'll have to do the thing, and I just hope it doesn't slow things down.
  • ▶ 1:50:34 David Rosenthal Earlier, and the person in Burger King was referencing like, oh, they got a call to New York
  • ▶ 3:10:08 David Rosenthal The dynamics that they did within California, that even though New York was still bigger as a state, the market was so fragmented there that none of the banks had enough power to pull this off.

Costco (Audio) · Acquired Aug 21, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:23 David Rosenthal Saul's parents, like many Jewish immigrants around then in New York, ended up getting jobs in the garment factories in the Lower East Side, and the conditions in these factories were, like, terrible, just absolutely terrible.
  • ▶ 8:22 David Rosenthal Saul, maybe the most influential American retail capitalist in history, comes out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory movement and communism and socialism and everything that's happening in New York and the Jewish community at this time.
  • ▶ 18:39 David Rosenthal And I think probably harkens back to his upbringing in New York

Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired Apr 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53:06 Mitch Lasky In the late nineties, when I was running the studios there, and I remember going to Toy Fair in New York, which I, which is a trip, man.

Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:39 David Senra So he literally moves to another state because he couldn't be divorced in New York.

Enron · Acquired Nov 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:51 David Rosenthal So, two traders at the new Enron, who are actually based in New York, they start embezzling money from the company.

Qualcomm · Acquired Nov 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22:52 David Rosenthal On the back of that, they sign, uh, Ninex, Ninex Mobile, which is one of the largest New York carriers.

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired Oct 4, 2022 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 10:50 Jason Calacanis I mean, Fred was on fire for a New York VC and Jerry, they did pretty well.
  • ▶ 10:55 David Rosenthal Like, I mean, Silicon Valley was here, but they were in New York.
  • ▶ 10:58 Jason Calacanis Yeah, we just, there was a lot of good companies brewing in New York, and my concept with Silicon Valley Reporter was, well, they have Red Herring upside in the Bay, but I own New York, and I had Silicon Valley Reporter,
  • ▶ 11:11 Jason Calacanis So I had two magazines, two conferences, two email newsletters, and I was kind of king of New York, right?
  • ▶ 11:41 Jason Calacanis So anyway, it's a really cool time in New York because at that time you were either in media or finance or art publishing.
  • ▶ 12:04 Jason Calacanis Like it was crazy to be the New York internet guy.
  • ▶ 29:58 Jason Calacanis I voted probably Democratic three out of five times, four out of five times, but mostly that's a function of the fact that I've lived only in New York and California in my life, where you don't really get many Republicans or moderates, but…
  • ▶ 30:13 David Rosenthal Were you here during the Schwarzenegger era, or were you still in New York?
  • ▶ 1:45:10 Jason Calacanis So yes, he did the equivalent of those in New York, but it was a very New York thing.
  • ▶ 2:10:01 David Rosenthal He did culture, business, anybody in New York, because New York, everybody in New York was pretty fucking interesting.
  • ▶ 2:10:10 Jason Calacanis Somebody who does films, you know, he would have, like, Spike Lee on, you know, he'd have Woody Allen on, he would have, you know, any actress on who was doing something interesting, any novelist, Margaret Atwood, anybody was just coming…

Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 1 mention

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:36:43 Ben Gilbert They would refer to like a New York company, and it would be like IBM's logo, but it would say like New York company, and like Oracle is, you know, they would go as far as to say like San Francisco company.

Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired Aug 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27:16 Howard Marks And then, right around the same time, there was a deep value firm in New York, and they invested very heavily in the banks that year, and the banks did horribly.

Amazon.com · Acquired Aug 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired Aug 2, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:53 Ben Gilbert So you remember who they were when they launched out of YC in 2017, blanketed billboards across San Francisco, New York.

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired May 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:20 David Rosenthal Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome all the way from New York, Paki McCormick and Mario Gabrielli.

Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired Mar 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:32 Brad Gerstner Right, and I thought that was my differentiator, right, that I had a network in Silicon Valley, you know, most of the other hedge funds were in New York or Boston, most of them were stock pickers, not founders, and so I thought I can do…

SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired Mar 7, 2022 · 1 mention

Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired Feb 10, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:11 David Rosenthal So originally he moved to Stockholm and was, uh, was CFO of the business in Stockholm and then moved to New York to set up and really drive the free portion of the Spotify business, which is what Taylor was so upset about.
  • ▶ 33:12 David Rosenthal He had been the head of Barnes and Noble's nook business, their e-reader business, uh, which is based in New York.

Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired Dec 3, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 43:57 Packy McCormick And one of the tests that I ran was starting a debate club in New York and got, you know, 20 friends to come and debate.
  • ▶ 44:20 Packy McCormick and I think it all comes from the same spot is, you know, the name not boring comes from, which is I had dinner with my mom and her business partner one night in New York while I was still at breather and her business partner asked me what…
  • ▶ 1:35:34 Packy McCormick and I could have been in, in, uh, New York in the middle of February

Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired Oct 19, 2021 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 51:40 David Rosenthal From the state of New York.
  • ▶ 51:43 David Rosenthal I think it was a federal charter granted in the state of New York to create the Rockefeller Foundation, which still exists to this day.
  • ▶ 1:01:34 David Rosenthal The actual home in New York is in New York when the feisty new governor of New York starts making some noises about coming after the trust in particular, the oil trust with Standard Oil.
  • ▶ 1:01:50 David Rosenthal Then Theodore Roosevelt, the new governor of New York.
  • ▶ 1:04:27 David Rosenthal So, Standard and the business community and Mark Hanna, they come up with a brilliant, genius solution to their new problems from Roosevelt in the state of New York.
  • ▶ 1:04:53 David Rosenthal This will get rid of him, like, send him to be VP, you know, it'll be, like, great for his political career, but you're gonna get him out of New York, and everybody knows VPs do basically, basically.
  • ▶ 1:08:52 David Rosenthal She lives in Paris for a while, but she's, you know, based in New York.
  • ▶ 1:22:11 Ben Gilbert They're jumping over the fence of, I think it's Potantico Hills, where he, like, his residence in New York, like, there's some servant or something who sees this, like, person leap over the fence and fall, and they're like, can we help you?

Standard Oil Part I · Acquired Sep 22, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 9:56 David Rosenthal So one day when he is 26 years old in 1836, he rolls into a new unsuspecting community to offload his, uh, his, his, uh, goods on shall we say Richford, New York, which is in far, far, far away in central New York state.
  • ▶ 19:13 David Rosenthal All this, you know, this upbringing, this sort of, you know, milieu that he's growing up in, in New York.
  • ▶ 19:21 David Rosenthal In 1853, when John is 14, and sorta, you know, a teenager, sorta just on the cusp of manhood, uh, Bill sweeps in, comes back from one of his trips, and decides, announces that he is gonna move the family away from New York to Ohio,…
  • ▶ 20:10 David Rosenthal But there's actually another reason, which is, uh, he's got another new girlfriend back in New York named Margaret, uh, and he wants to keep the families more separate.
  • ▶ 20:23 Ben Gilbert Wait, so I'm sorry, he got another family in New York, and he's trying to create distance, so there's children with three different wives, and he's trying to.
  • ▶ 1:08:34 David Rosenthal There is some refining happening in Titusville, some in West Virginia, some in New York.
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