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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 6:47 David Rosenthal And in the midst of all this, desperate to ward off these corporate raiders, management strikes a series of friendly deals with four oil and gas and real estate brothers in Fort Worth, Texas, the Bass family and their famous investment…
- ▶ 7:46 David Rosenthal These Texas guys.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:47 David Rosenthal For listeners who don't know, Davy Crockett is like a historical American figure that fought and died in the Battle of the Alamo in Texas over a century before this.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:42 David Rosenthal That one of the potential new professional football team investors, a gentleman named Lamar Hunt, who was a young heir to a very large Dallas, Texas oil fortune, kept trying to talk to Burt Bell, the NFL, do anything he could to get an…
- ▶ 1:06:55 David Rosenthal So the plan is to expand to both Dallas and Houston immediately to meet the AFL there in Texas.
- ▶ 2:08:05 Ben Gilbert Their data center in Abilene, Texas, is a massive 1.2 gigawatts.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:29 David Rosenthal A relatively new concept coming out of Texas, launched by a company called the Southland Corporation, called the Convenience Store.
- ▶ 7:41 David Rosenthal And Southland has just recently rebranded their stores, that they are operating very successfully in Texas, in this convenience store model, to something called Seven-Elevens.
- ▶ 9:00 David Rosenthal Seven-Eleven today is a publicly traded Japanese company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange founded in Dallas, Texas, that operates the largest global retail chain in the world.
- ▶ 9:45 Ben Gilbert So Southland had a chain, David, of what you're talking about, these ice docks, where people would bring their mule-drawn wagons and pick up ice in the Texas heat.
- ▶ 10:00 Ben Gilbert So, this innovation happens where in 1927, a guy named John Jefferson Green figures out, hey, I don't think people want to leave their house in the middle of the Texas heat in the summer to bring their mule and wagon over to get the ice.
- ▶ 12:32 Ben Gilbert By 1951, it becomes Texas's largest retailer of beverages, milk, and bread.
- ▶ 12:58 Ben Gilbert In a single year, I think all in Texas.
- ▶ 14:00 David Rosenthal Joe travels to Texas, and they're like, there is absolutely no reason that this won't work in California.
- ▶ 1:22:03 David Rosenthal This is all happening, call it five to eight years before John Mackey starts Whole Foods in Austin, Texas.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:04:16 Ben Gilbert Managed by there's a rental car company in Texas that manages it, or they've partnered, I believe with Lyft and with Uber and different.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 23:11 Steve Ballmer So we were trying to, and then Texas is where the database and, and, uh, communication subs.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:37:16 Ben Gilbert So the best example of this is the giant 1.2 gigawatt AI data center that they are building in Abilene, Texas.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34:57 Ben Gilbert The best example of this is the giant 1.2 gigawatt AI data center that they are building in Abilene, Texas.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 19:09 David Rosenthal It was in Dallas, Texas.
- ▶ 19:40 David Rosenthal In the thirties, you're like, how did a technology company and a semiconductor company end up in Dallas, Texas?
- ▶ 24:27 David Rosenthal Yes, and in Texas.
- ▶ 27:55 David Rosenthal He can't wait to get back to Texas, back to TI.
- ▶ 43:44 David Rosenthal So he goes off to New York, you know, he leaves Texas, lives in Manhattan,
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:06:49 David Rosenthal In Houston, Texas.
- ▶ 2:07:19 David Rosenthal And in 1942, this chemist and Forrest form another joint venture company in Houston, Texas, and they patent the method in America and start producing rice to sell, just like M&M's, to the military.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:27:06 David Rosenthal They currently have 15 gigawatts in their development pipeline, and their coming Abilene, Texas facility alone has over 1.2 gigawatts planned, which will make it one of the largest clusters in the entire world.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:15 Ben Gilbert Their Abilene, Texas facility alone has over 1.2 gigawatts planned, which will make it one of the largest clusters in the world.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:46 Ben Gilbert In some states, I think Texas was one of them, you literally could only have one branch.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:10 David Rosenthal They take it to Texas, they go to San Antonio, they go to Houston, they go to Dallas.
- ▶ 1:08:50 David Rosenthal They were following the old sort of trade routes of the FedMart playbook of Arizona, Texas, Florida, going out across the South and the Midwest.
- ▶ 1:40:49 David Rosenthal They've gone out to energy sites, think like Texas, Montana, Argentina, and more,
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:49 David Rosenthal Think like Texas, Montana, etc.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:46 David Senra That's a crazy thing where Bob Magnus, which is the founder of TCI, this, you know, um, he doesn't have any monies in rural Texas wants to,
- ▶ 2:00:53 David Senra One of my favorite stories is about the little boy in Texas.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 16:37 David Rosenthal To a company called Transco Energy, based in Houston, Texas, which is?
- ▶ 16:55 David Rosenthal If you want to be in energy in America, you want to be in Texas.
- ▶ 18:01 David Rosenthal It's contracted to buy a whole bunch of oil and gas assets from various producers, various drillers, you know, around Texas and around the country, and those contracts have Transco buying the assets at an ever-increasing price, because the…
- ▶ 25:34 David Rosenthal He's now a Texas oil man.
- ▶ 25:46 Ben Gilbert Among its 20,000 miles of pipeline was a genuine prize, Northern Natural, the major north-south line, feeding gas from Texas into Iowa, Minnesota, and much of the rest of the Midwest.
- ▶ 1:28:12 Ben Gilbert In Texas.
- ▶ 1:28:14 David Rosenthal Certainly it was not legal in Texas, and it was not legal federally in America at the time.
- ▶ 2:46:47 Ben Gilbert And in twenty-twenty, Jeff Skilling founded a new energy trading company based in Texas called Veld LLC, rumored to be working on the venture with Lou Pie.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 31:18 David Rosenthal Bruce grew up in Texas and was a high school football quarterback in Texas, which, you know, is a big deal.
- ▶ 2:05:57 David Rosenthal He's also from Texas.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:34 Ben Gilbert As folks know, there is no state income tax in Washington State, much like Florida or Texas.
- ▶ 1:01:39 David Rosenthal But you would think, given Jeff's history, Florida or Texas would make more sense.
- ▶ 1:05:58 David Rosenthal Not Texas.
- ▶ 1:07:11 David Rosenthal They realize this, they like veer hard to the right in Texas.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:07 David Rosenthal Somebody is gonna come bring discounting to Arkansas and Missouri and Texas and Florida and everywhere else, and those stores are dead.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 23:04 David Rosenthal These are taking the world by storm and they're made by id id software in Texas and John Carmack and John Romero.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41:37 Brendan Eich It's a Texas band, the Friends of Matt Groening, the Simpsons creator.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:25 Ben Gilbert You're starting to get discoveries in Texas.
- ▶ 1:26:46 Ben Gilbert And like, so Standard Oil's strong suit was not Texas.
- ▶ 1:26:56 David Rosenthal Tex, uh, Texaco, uh, or what became Texaco and Gulf, I think, also came out of Texas.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 8:35 David Rosenthal No, no Texas, no California.
- ▶ 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.