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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wikipedia comes up
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:59:07 David Rosenthal If you go to Dan Snyder's Wikipedia page,
- ▶ 3:59:10 David Rosenthal It literally says on his Wikipedia page, Snyder is widely considered to be one of the worst owners in the history of North American professional sports, and has a whole train of citations after that.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:13 David Rosenthal There's an image on Wikipedia of one of these tickets from, that is the oldest known coupon used in America, and it is actually
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:18:54 David Rosenthal Maybe my favorite thing about Pirate Joe's is that if you go to the Pirate Joe's website that used to exist, it now just redirects to the Wikipedia article all about Pirate Joe's and the international legal incident that it caused.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:52:24 Ben Gilbert 20 12, they launched the knowledge graph, so when you search about a, basically a thing with a Wikipedia page, you always get the kind of snapshot view on the right-hand side of that entity.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:17:37 David Rosenthal So, the Alto, go look it up on Wikipedia, go look at pictures, like, it's the Mac.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:54:08 David Rosenthal This is not Wikipedia here.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:46:54 Ben Gilbert Wikipedia creates a ton of value.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:57:59 Ben Gilbert So I'm gonna read from Wikipedia.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:16:57 Ben Gilbert I'm literally gonna read from the Wikipedia here because the Wikipedia is extremely well written.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:59 David Rosenthal There's a great declassification document story that the government put out in 1985 when they declassified this stuff, and the Wikipedia page is pretty good.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:56 David Senra It's almost like reading a Wikipedia page before you read the biography.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 3:22:09 Ben Gilbert The classic example is Google creates a lot of value and captures a lot of it, and Wikipedia creates tons of value, captures very little of it.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 18:30 Ben Gilbert And every time I'd open up the Wikipedia page, I'd see a bunch of complicated math equations.
- ▶ 48:26 Ben Gilbert Which the first time you hear this phrase sounds like complete jargon, like meaningless, and, and then you stare at the Wikipedia article for a while to try and unpack each one.
- ▶ 1:15:15 David Rosenthal Literally, I tweeted this the other day.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:37 Ben Gilbert And I know Craigslist is a real business now, but like it could have been Wikipedia could have been this like unbelievable resource for humanity that generated no profit.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:26 Ben Gilbert For anyone who's looking for sort of a fun dive on how graphics works, go to the Wikipedia page for ray tracing.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:50:09 Ben Gilbert And back in the day, it used to be the Wikipedia page.
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:27 Ben Gilbert Over the last decade, I've read the Wikipedia pages for, like, semiconductor, for transistor, for, uh, I remember the first time trying to look up, like, how does a flash drive work?
- ▶ 1:13:38 Ben Gilbert Like, I've got this cool USB drive, and I put it in my computer, and I read the whole Wikipedia page, and afterwards, I was sort of just blinking, like, yeah, I still don't understand.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 44:31 David Rosenthal So a small sample, this, I'm just gonna like a read from Wikipedia here, if you go to the Wikipedia entry for Rockefeller University, these are the things that have come out of this in no particular order.
- ▶ 1:51:44 David Rosenthal Yeah, that's because I, the figures I had in my mind and that I think are on Wikipedia are in that sort of 300 to five hundred billion adjusted net worth range.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:17:12 Ben Gilbert The interesting one to look at here, and like a terrible example is Wikipedia, where there's no company that creates any more value in the world but captures so little of it, whereas you look at a Google and they create a lot of value but…