Paris, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paris comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 50:37 Ben Gilbert Like, if you're, if you, if you live in Paris, you, you consider yourself French or, or Parisian.
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:41 David Rosenthal I mean, and if you think about it, it's really not that different from any other luxury company heritage out there, like Thierry Hermes and his sons making saddles for the nobility and the new haute bourgeoisie on the boulevards in Paris,…
- ▶ 1:02:46 Ben Gilbert I'm not sure I totally agree with the distinction, but a thing that I will say is you go to Paris to absorb the history and look at the fine museums, and you go to Italy to feel something.
- ▶ 1:59:31 David Rosenthal Enzo had no idea what Jean-Louis Dumas was doing over in Paris.
- ▶ 1:59:37 David Rosenthal What Jean-Louis Dumas was doing over in Paris.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:49 David Rosenthal The Automobile Club of France, which was the largest in Europe at the time, hosts an inaugural race just to the southwest of Paris called Le Mans.
- ▶ 7:49 David Rosenthal Eventually in the 19 twenties, all the major European automobile clubs get together in Paris and they say, why don't we centralize oversight of this formula into one international organization?
- ▶ 49:00 Ben Gilbert That is the physical location in Paris.
- ▶ 49:11 David Rosenthal The Place de la Concorde in Paris is one of the ritziest, most famous parts of Paris.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:46:47 Ben Gilbert So they sold 42 pounds of cocaine to a narcotics broker in Paris, and the sale proceeds went in the Coca-Cola bank account.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:58 Ben Gilbert So they open new offices in Paris, Buenos Aires, and Milan.
- ▶ 2:53:01 Ben Gilbert And interestingly, that was discovered all the way back in 1880 in Paris.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:03 David Rosenthal Forrest and his young family now, by the way, with his young son, Forrest Jr., land first in Paris.
- ▶ 1:16:02 David Rosenthal So, in early 1933, Forrest moves his family from Paris to Switzerland to go learn from the chocolate masters, and Forrest goes to work, first at Jean Tobler, making Toblerone, and then at the original itself, Nestle.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:54 David Rosenthal So he uses that to import 500 fountain pens from Paris.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:03:09 Ben Gilbert The whole thing, it takes place in wartime Paris.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46 Ben Gilbert This company dates back to 1837 in Paris, France, the crown jewel of the luxury industry, Hermes.
- ▶ 4:52 David Rosenthal We start in eighteen-oh-one, not in Paris, not even in France,
- ▶ 8:31 David Rosenthal In 1821, Thierry leaves Creffield, leaves Germany, he abandons his original kind of destiny as an innkeeper, and he moves to France, not to Paris, but to Normandy in the north, and there he becomes an apprentice under a master craftsman…
- ▶ 9:30 David Rosenthal And it's not until 1837 that he finally moves to Paris as now a master craftsman and opens up his own shop in Paris on the Rue Basse du Rampart in the ninth arrondissement, which that whole street today no longer exists, and there he…
- ▶ 10:31 David Rosenthal So when Thierry arrives in Paris in 1837, he pretty quickly starts becoming known as really the best harness maker and carriage outfitter in Paris, serving the nobility, which is pretty impressive.
- ▶ 10:45 David Rosenthal I mean, here he's this immigrant from Germany, apprenticed in Normandy, he shows up in Paris,
- ▶ 11:03 David Rosenthal When Thierry finally comes to Paris, at this point, Napoleon I has been defeated, the Battle of Waterloo, that was 1815.
- ▶ 11:50 David Rosenthal So, if people have heard of the Baron Haussmann who kind of rebuilt Paris, that happens at this time under Napoleon III.
- ▶ 11:58 David Rosenthal They transform Paris from a medieval city with super tight streets.
- ▶ 12:03 David Rosenthal Like, if you go up to Montmartre, those streets around there, that is old Paris.
- ▶ 12:24 David Rosenthal He is given full latitude and direction by Napoleon III to burn Paris to the ground and remake this city as a modern city.
- ▶ 12:41 David Rosenthal In the old medieval streets in Paris, not that many people were going up and down them, not that many people were gonna see the nobility in their carriages, in all their finery.
- ▶ 12:52 David Rosenthal Now you've got the Champs-Élysées, the Grand Boulevards, everything about the sort of gallantry of Paris that we know today.
- ▶ 19:26 David Rosenthal Which, you know, again, like, as Paris is modernizing, as you can now,
- ▶ 19:32 David Rosenthal For the first time in Paris, you couldn't be seen riding in addition to carriages.
- ▶ 20:24 David Rosenthal 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the eighth arrondissement of Paris.
- ▶ 38:55 David Rosenthal They start opening up stores outside of Paris.
- ▶ 1:30:35 David Rosenthal She was an artisan at Hermes in Paris.
- ▶ 1:37:30 David Rosenthal I was gonna say, think about, like, the connections here in France and Paris.
- ▶ 1:37:34 Ben Gilbert Which, by the way, everyone in Paris thought the pyramid was hideously ugly when it first, relative to this 1700 building around it.
- ▶ 1:39:35 David Rosenthal So, well, the first thing, in 1979, the first year he takes over, he launches a new ad campaign in Paris with young Parisian women wearing the iconic Hermes scarves, which remember, like, that's the main part of the business at this point…
- ▶ 1:45:49 David Rosenthal Jean-Louis, this is literally whole cloth conceived of by him on a flight from Paris to London in the early 19 eighties where he's seated next to the French and British actress Jane Birkin.
- ▶ 2:46:21 David Rosenthal Most of the story that we've been telling thus far, you know, until 1992, all of the craftspeople in the company, more or less, were working in the Faubourg, in this one relatively small building on the Rue Faubourg du Saint-Honoré in…
- ▶ 2:46:37 David Rosenthal In 1982, they moved production to Pantin in the suburbs of Paris.
- ▶ 2:47:48 Ben Gilbert Little maker with a workshop in San Francisco or a workshop in Paris.
- ▶ 3:45:29 Ben Gilbert And then you've got all these individual artisans, you know, a craftsperson in a, a little workshop somewhere in Paris making the highest quality, you know, Hermes quality things, but there's no brand.
- ▶ 4:08:11 Ben Gilbert He wrote a book called Swan Songs, Souvenirs of Paris Elegance.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:57 Ben Gilbert It's this beautiful, incredible thing in Paris.
- ▶ 3:17:15 David Rosenthal And the cities are like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio, Paris, etc.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:59 David Rosenthal Turns out that there was a big summit in Paris scheduled for later in May between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:12 Ben Thompson We're going to go to Paris and leave the kids with my parents.
- ▶ 51:34 Ben Thompson And so we flew to Paris, ran the credit cards all back up again, of course.
- ▶ 51:37 Ben Thompson And in Paris, I remember I would wake up every morning at four AM, sit in the bathroom and write a daily update.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 10:45 David Rosenthal To Paris.
- ▶ 10:46 David Rosenthal And then from Paris, made it to the U.S., went to Hollywood, and lived in Hollywood for most of the rest of her life.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:25 Ben Gilbert That first time that an employee expenses a first class ticket to Paris for a meeting that should have been an email,
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:52 David Rosenthal She lives in Paris for a while, but she's, you know, based in New York.