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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:50:16 Ben Gilbert There had recently been a Spider-Man, which actually was licensed to Sony.
- ▶ 2:50:38 Ben Gilbert You couldn't use Spider-Man, because Sony already had that.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:36:17 David Rosenthal Well, not only was it financially pretty good for them when they ultimately sold the business to Sony a few years later.
- ▶ 3:03:24 David Rosenthal Sells Columbia to Sony.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:06:25 Ben Gilbert Now, the funny thing is, the thing that I'm actually talking about as my carve-out is the Sony camera.
- ▶ 4:06:29 Ben Gilbert Shiel Monat tweeted, actually this morning, I should have been preparing for this episode, and I was, like, replying to him on Twitter instead, that he's been considering getting this Sony or another point-and-shoot camera, and I just kind…
- ▶ 4:06:57 Ben Gilbert Whenever I am space constrained, which is usually, I mean, I just don't really want a camera around my neck, the perfect combo is bring a phone and bring the Sony.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:09 Ben Gilbert Sony is nowhere near the market cap of these companies, but it's like pretty evenly diversified across their five segments, from
- ▶ 1:38:25 Steve Ballmer But I can't call Sony Pictures a trick.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 44:15 David Rosenthal So Lalit goes to Sony, who's the number two broadcaster in the
- ▶ 1:49:53 David Rosenthal So they announced the billion dollar deal with WSG and Sony.
- ▶ 1:50:44 David Rosenthal Of the central media rights revenue, the broadcast deals like they've just done with WSG and Sony, and also the central sponsorship deals, 50%, one half of that, will get distributed out to the collective eight franchises to be distributed…
- ▶ 2:37:18 David Rosenthal So, I foreshadowed a little bit ago in the TV rights deal with World Sports Group and Sony that Lalit had given him his word as a gentleman that if this whole thing doesn't work, I'll rip up the deal and I'll, won't carry IPL forward.
- ▶ 2:37:54 David Rosenthal Specifically, he engineers an excuse and says that Sony had been allowing Reliance's telecom division to advertise during their commercial breaks, and that that violated Vodafone's exclusivity over everything IPL because Vodafone was a…
- ▶ 2:38:16 David Rosenthal He also alleges that he has evidence that Sony had been, at least in certain markets, cutting away from the game early to squeeze in extra commercials and not showing all the balls that were bowled and over.
- ▶ 2:38:55 David Rosenthal On the back of this, he strong arms Sony and World Sports Group into renegotiating a new deal that is going to be direct with Sony.
- ▶ 2:39:07 David Rosenthal I think maybe they let them keep the international rights, but Sony is now going to directly do a ten-year deal with the IPL for 2.4 billion dollars.
- ▶ 2:39:38 David Rosenthal And really just tells you everything you need to know about how much of a success this is here because Sony is willing to say, okay, fine, I'll let you rip up the contract
- ▶ 2:39:58 Ben Gilbert Clearly it meant that there was a lot left on the table that Sony was benefiting from in year one because of how big of a success it was.
- ▶ 2:43:17 David Rosenthal Now, central revenue is higher from the new broadcast deal that got renegotiated, renegotiated, quote unquote, with Sony.
- ▶ 2:55:37 Ben Gilbert The ten-year Sony redone deal.
- ▶ 2:56:08 David Rosenthal So twice the value of the renegotiated Sony deal.
- ▶ 2:56:15 David Rosenthal The renegotiated Sony deal was 2.4 billion over 10 or nine.
- ▶ 3:01:16 David Rosenthal This was Sony's first sports entree in India.
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 2:35:28 Ben Gilbert The, the cameras that we're talking into right now that have these great Sony sensors, uh, those don't require a two nanometer process, but they do require etching the same way that you would etch a chip, and so that's a specialty use case
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:31 David Rosenthal They were making GPUs, like, Nvidia's stock tracked whether they won the next Sony contract for the next PlayStation or the Xbox.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:52:16 Ben Gilbert Well, if you like this episode, go check out our other episodes on LVMH, Sony, or Berkshire Hathaway, if conglomerates are your thing, or for more complex manufacturing, Novo Nordisk, the makers of Ozempec.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:09 David Rosenthal These are enormous companies, and especially in the seventies, as Japan was really rising, we told the story on the Sony episode,
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:06 David Rosenthal This is literally like the Sony story.
- ▶ 26:08 David Rosenthal If you remember, uh, when Sony first got started in Tokyo at literally the same time, they started by fixing radios.
- ▶ 26:30 David Rosenthal Unlike Sony in Tokyo, though, where there were a lot of radios in Tokyo, there weren't a lot of cars in Gamund.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:01 Ben Gilbert Much like our Sony episode, and I'm pulling forward a playbook thing here,
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 27:28 Mitch Lasky Who has the most market power of any company, and maybe apart from Nintendo and Sony,
- ▶ 37:07 Blake Robbins I think it's, you can see publicly in the way that they're going with Microsoft against Sony, that
- ▶ 40:02 Blake Robbins If you had an Xbox, you couldn't play with your friend who had a PlayStation or a Switch, and really Nintendo and Microsoft went to war against Sony.
- ▶ 40:11 Mitch Lasky Yeah, I mean, as Phil said in our, in our conversation yesterday, he said, you know, Sony's perspective was, if you want to play with your friends, get them to buy a PlayStation.
- ▶ 40:21 Ben Gilbert All these different business strategies are about figuring out in what way can you leverage an asset to get people to do something that eventually generates profit for you, and the way Sony was looking at it was,
- ▶ 40:52 Mitch Lasky Now, you could be cynical about it, and you could say that that is the result of the fact that Sony has dominant market share.
- ▶ 56:24 Mitch Lasky But I kept up with him, and we hung out, and then he went off into the Sony ecosystem and built Journey.
- ▶ 56:54 Mitch Lasky So he came to me and said, hey, I wanna, like, I'm, I'm, I'm leaving the Sony thing.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:34 David Senra Uh, who took a bunch of ideas from Sony too?
- ▶ 1:43:47 David Senra They get this huge order, like we're going to take a 100,000 units or whatever it is, but take off Sony and put on our name.
- ▶ 1:43:53 David Senra And Akio's like, we have no money.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 11:40 David Rosenthal Sony, Sony Corporation.
- ▶ 21:42 David Rosenthal Just to, if you have not listened to the Sony episode, I'm sure most of you have, but like, it's so good.
- ▶ 21:54 David Rosenthal Sony.
- ▶ 22:07 David Rosenthal Ok, Sony.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 44:59 Ben Gilbert Hey, Sony, will you spin up a new venture that we'll co-invest in to make flip phones that use CDMA so we can prove to everyone else in the market that CDMA is viable technology?
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:28:43 David Rosenthal Our friends Sony, I guess, uh, Akio Morita was running it.
- ▶ 1:28:48 David Rosenthal The Sony corporation to partner in a JV to make handsets.
- ▶ 1:29:06 David Rosenthal That was made by the JP with Sony.
- ▶ 1:29:08 David Rosenthal That was a Sony phone, um, with Qualcomm branding.
- ▶ 1:30:54 David Rosenthal They would have had to do the same thing they did with Sony and Nortel.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:00:54 David Rosenthal I don't know, we've probably done it more than once, but in my mind the canonical acquired episode, Coda, is the PlayStation on the Sony episode.
- ▶ 3:01:11 David Rosenthal Regardless of how good we, you and I, did or didn't do on it, like just the story of Sony is one of the most incredible of all time.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 0:00 Ben Gilbert I love how this book is called Made in America, and the Sony story is Made in Japan.
- ▶ 0:57 Ben Gilbert When we did our Sony episode, we discovered that many Steve Jobs-isms really started as Accio Morita-isms.
- ▶ 35:04 David Rosenthal The war has just ended, and unlike 1945 in Japan, like we talked about with the Sony story, retail in the US is booming.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 8:29 David Rosenthal So, the person on the left is Akio Morita, and the person on the right is Masaru Ibuka, and they were the co-founders of the Sony Corporation, and, ah, we told this story in about three hours, ah, earlier this year on Acquired.
- ▶ 8:52 David Rosenthal So as we said, there's not a lot of reasons looking out at the landscape at the markets right now to be an optimist, but the Sony story reminds us that things were much, much, much worse than they are today in the recent past.
- ▶ 9:06 David Rosenthal So Sony was founded in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in,
- ▶ 10:51 David Rosenthal These two men and Sony changed the course of Japanese history, changed the course of world history, and, um, again, we talked about this on the episode, but, uh, Steve Jobs was, was mentioned earlier tonight, Akio Morita was the…
- ▶ 11:17 David Rosenthal And I think, uh, you know, no Morita, no Sony, no iPhone.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:25 David Rosenthal We didn't talk about this as much in the Sony episode, but my impression of the whole Android
- ▶ 2:03:14 Ben Gilbert Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and as we mentioned on our Sony episode, Sony.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:22 David Rosenthal And as we know from our Sony episode, not quite the Sega Genesis, not quite the Sega Genesis.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Ben Gilbert I think Sony had, like, sort of used it about the PlayStation, but no one's marketing this idea.
- ▶ 1:08:45 David Rosenthal Microsoft's got a secret project that they're working on at this time, the Xbox, which we talked about a lot on the Sony episode and so many times on the show.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 53:26 Brad Gerstner The Sony board hack where, I think it was Colin Powell, if memory serves me correct, his email was hacked, and in his email was the target list for Salesforce's M&A activity.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:55 Ben Gilbert Listeners, today we are telling the story of the company that Steve Jobs idolized and modeled Apple Computer after, the Sony Corporation.
- ▶ 1:07 David Rosenthal You know the story, right, of the black turtlenecks and the Sony connection.
- ▶ 1:15 David Rosenthal Steve idolized Sony, went over to visit, and saw that there was a uniform that Sony employees had, and he was like, that's a great idea.
- ▶ 1:36 Ben Gilbert And didn't the Sony employees have uniforms because, like, clothing was scarce after World War II?
- ▶ 1:49 David Rosenthal And so he went to Issei Miyake, the famous Japanese designer who had made the Sony uniform and got him to make him a hundred black turtlenecks.
- ▶ 1:59 Ben Gilbert There's so much about our generation that we remember from Sony growing up, the Trinitron TVs, Discmans with advanced CD skip protection, 30 seconds worth,
- ▶ 2:10 Ben Gilbert You know, even more recently, the excellent professional line of cameras that Sony makes, and actually, David and I are both recording on right now.
- ▶ 2:17 David Rosenthal As well as Sony headphones right now, right?
- ▶ 2:21 Ben Gilbert But Sony goes so much deeper than that, and also so much more broad than that today, expanding into a very special type of conglomerate.
- ▶ 2:31 Ben Gilbert David, did you know that they own a division that exclusively makes a tiny dog robot?
- ▶ 2:38 David Rosenthal Do they still make that thing?
- ▶ 2:39 Ben Gilbert Yeah, they do.
- ▶ 2:45 Ben Gilbert They are the second largest Japanese company by market cap behind only Toyota.
- ▶ 2:51 Ben Gilbert They're the largest video game console company and the largest video game publisher in the world.
- ▶ 2:57 Ben Gilbert They're the largest music publisher and the second largest record label, which for those of you who listened to the T-Swift episode, you now know the difference.
- ▶ 3:05 Ben Gilbert And they have the third largest Hollywood film studio on top of all of that.
- ▶ 16:58 Ben Gilbert I think they even say either in the Sony book by John Nathan or in Akio Morita's book that his younger brothers were actively sort of training to be kamikaze pilots like that would have been his future.
- ▶ 27:00 Ben Gilbert The company, by the way, if you go to Sony's website, they have meticulously maintained corporate archives.
- ▶ 30:04 David Rosenthal Still, I believe, owned about 10% of Sony.
- ▶ 30:15 David Rosenthal The question is, what's worth more, the Morita Saki empire or the 10% stake in Sony?
- ▶ 30:22 Ben Gilbert The 10% stake in Sony.
- ▶ 30:27 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Sony had some dark years in the future.
- ▶ 33:25 David Rosenthal At this point in time, the company is known as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, TTC, with their tape recorders.
- ▶ 34:21 David Rosenthal Well, the Morita family's initial investment in Sony was a 190,000 yen, and now they're selling their first product for a 160,000 yen.
- ▶ 37:50 David Rosenthal It takes two years, but two years later, in August of 1955, TTC releases their first transistor radio product, the TR 55
- ▶ 38:36 David Rosenthal Sony, soon to be Sony is all in on this idea of like, if we can shrink this down, people can take it with them.
- ▶ 40:28 Ben Gilbert Like that is exactly what the Sony logo evolution over time represents.
- ▶ 41:51 David Rosenthal They have, they have the Sony sales force that sells the products to, you know, the distributors of the retailers.
- ▶ 42:43 David Rosenthal The company grows to 1200 employees, the newly named Sony corporation.
- ▶ 45:41 David Rosenthal So ultimately what that leads to is a couple of years later, Marita and Sony decide we need to establish our own corporation in America so that we don't have to work with distributors.
- ▶ 45:54 David Rosenthal We can just directly have a Sony operation in America.
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