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Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired Mar 5, 2026 · 7 mentions

The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired Jul 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:26 Jamie Dimon If we ever get any kind of war where cyber is involved, and China is very good at it, and so is Russia, but Russia is mostly criminal, which is slightly different.
  • ▶ 49:40 David Rosenthal We're not really equipped to talk about, yeah, Russia, so.

Rolex (Audio) · Acquired Feb 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:46:19 Ben Gilbert I'm sure there's some crazy stories about black market communist dealers of Rolexes to Russia post-World War II.

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

IKEA (Audio) · Acquired Nov 18, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:08:03 David Rosenthal Coming out of the nineties, in 2000, Ikea starts their next big geographical growth initiative, which is Russia.
  • ▶ 2:08:12 David Rosenthal So they reach a deal with the Russian government that Ikea is going to enter Russia, and they're going to use the market, which they expect to be really big for Ikea, to also pilot the quote-unquote mega market.
  • ▶ 2:09:22 Ben Gilbert I didn't realize Russia is where they started this strategy.
  • ▶ 2:09:24 David Rosenthal Yeah, Russia's where they started.
  • ▶ 2:09:42 David Rosenthal So they pilot this in Russia, which is interesting, and I think it works pretty well.
  • ▶ 2:09:46 David Rosenthal Unfortunately for Ikea and everything that would happen in Russia over the next 20 years, they end up completely exiting the market in March of twenty-twenty-two after Russia invades Ukraine.
  • ▶ 2:09:58 David Rosenthal So they had 17 stores total in Russia, 14 of which were these mega complexes.

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired Sep 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:37 Emily Chang Well, Russia maybe, but that's complicated, and we don't even know if China could dock at the ISS.

Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:53 David Rosenthal He was a Russian immigrant, and he's kind of like still more Russia than Boston at this point in time.

Hermès (Audio) · Acquired Feb 20, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:58 David Rosenthal There's this great story that in the late 18 nineties, so before his father Charles Emile retires, the young Emile sets off to conquer Russia for Hermes.
  • ▶ 22:26 David Rosenthal They have to staff up a whole new atelier with like, 80 crafts people to fulfill all the orders for the Tsar in Russia.
  • ▶ 30:56 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Emil both figures out how to open business in Russia, and goes to America, meets with Henry Ford, understands the automobile's gonna change the world.
  • ▶ 3:12:03 Ben Gilbert And I think Russia accounted for a decent amount of that

Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired May 30, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:00 David Rosenthal But during the Cold War, they're kind of useless, because if you wanted to have a chess piece in position to strike a land-based target, if you could even do that at all with a submarine, you gotta get the submarine pretty dang close to…
  • ▶ 1:25:44 David Rosenthal If we hadn't built this stuff, there's a good chance Russia would have done a first strike.
  • ▶ 1:44:34 David Rosenthal Along the way, LMSC also does a lot of pioneering work in weather satellites, and they launch weather satellites, because it turns out that most of Russia is under cloud cover most of the time, so they gotta know when, you know, the…

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

Enron · Acquired Nov 29, 2022 · 1 mention

From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired Aug 2, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:18 David Rosenthal That was the Russia stuff, right?
  • ▶ 1:31:37 Anthony Gonzalez It emboldens the Russias and the Chinas of the world.
  • ▶ 1:42:01 Anthony Gonzalez But, you know, in this world where I believe it's us versus China and Russia, and sort of US values, norms, and ideas, versus the Chinese Communist Party values and ideas, I want as many critical technologies and supply chains domestic or…

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

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired Feb 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired Oct 19, 2021 · 1 mention

Standard Oil Part I · Acquired Sep 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:36 Ben Gilbert Everyone knows, David, that the center of the oil world is not the Middle East, or Russia, or Alaska, or Texas, but Western Pennsylvania.
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