Seattle
3 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 288 times in 60 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ben Gilbert (131), David Rosenthal (102), Howard Schultz (34), Packy McCormick (5), Mark Canlis (5), Jim Weber (2), Ben Thompson (2), Steve Ballmer (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
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2025 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 95 mentions in 6 episodes 16 per episode
- Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
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2023 39 mentions in 8 episodes 5 per episode
- Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
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2022 108 mentions in 25 episodes 4 per episode
- Amazon.com · Acquired
- Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
- Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
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2020 7 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Seattle, oldest first
May 12, 2022 positive
Gilbert: PitchBook Built a Multi-Hundred Million Dollar Business on $4M Raised
“PitchBook is PitchBook is Seattle's, like, monster amazing business hiding in plain sight, and it's been really cool to get to know their team more and more and more and understand the business and just learn how on four million dollars they've been able to bu…”
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Schultz: Starbucks' first espresso pilot reached 500 daily customers within a week
“On the corner of Fourth and Spring in Seattle, and it was the sixth Starbucks store, and out of about 1200 square feet, I got a hundred feet, and I designed and opened the coffee bar, worked behind the counter as a barista, and Starbucks probably had two to 30…”
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Gilbert: Independent Seattle franchise was IKEA's highest-performing US store
“So they only opened one or two more, despite the fact that the locally owned stores, well, the Seattle store, actually did way better. I think it was the highest performing U.S. Store and beat all the corporate owned ones.”