Stuttgart, every mention

Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired Jun 27, 2023 · 13 mentions

• ▶ 7:18 David Rosenthal So when Ferdinand takes this, uh, new post as the head of engineering at Daimler, he moves his family from Austria, where he was the potting prize winner, to Stuttgart in Germany.
• ▶ 7:31 David Rosenthal And, uh, Doug, you probably have some more context on this, but Stuttgart is basically like the Detroit of the German auto industry.
• ▶ 7:53 Doug DeMuro Everybody you meet in Stuttgart, just like when you go to Detroit, works for Porsche or Mercedes-Benz or a supplier or something like that.
• ▶ 24:02 David Rosenthal And that happens to be quite convenient because during the last days of the war, as Stuttgart and other large scale German military production facilities were getting bombed by the allies,
• ▶ 24:15 David Rosenthal Porsche took about 20 or so of the best, most talented engineers and production people that they had and they moved them out of Stuttgart and they moved them to the Austrian countryside so that they wouldn't be, you know, targeted by the,…
• ▶ 32:22 David Rosenthal So obviously in Gmunt and then, and then even when Porsche moves back to Stuttgart here in a minute, um, their production capability is not nearly as large as Volkswagen.
• ▶ 37:27 David Rosenthal Is that Ferdinand and Ferry, the original Ferdinand and his son Ferry, they're gonna move back to Stuttgart and take over, retake over the kind of German operations of Porsche.
• ▶ 1:31:08 Doug DeMuro And it had kind of really hurt morale, uh, in Stuttgart at the factory all the way up to the, to some of the people at the top.
• ▶ 1:42:34 Doug DeMuro That's in the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen in Stuttgart.
• ▶ 1:43:37 Doug DeMuro It literally kept the lights on in Stuttgart at Zuffenhausen.
• ▶ 1:44:08 Doug DeMuro Mercedes could have built that car, but their brothers in Stuttgart down the street were having really tough times.
• ▶ 2:07:23 Doug DeMuro It also helped legitimize that facility because up until that point, except for the ones built in Austria, all of the Porsches had been built in Stuttgart in Zuffenhausen in that factory, that same factory for all these years.
• ▶ 3:02:13 Ben Gilbert It's not like the, the square footage in Stuttgart that they own is like some magical thing.