Cargill
company on 10 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 46 times in 17 episodes since 2016
Capital Allocators 28 
All-In 4 
20VC 3 
My First Million 2 
the Neon Show 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
Acquired 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Top Founders 1 
How I Built This 1
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2024 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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2023 28 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
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2018 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
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6 statements about Cargill, every show
Page: At 25, I pushed Cargill to buy $5M in Drexel bonds
“On my 25 year old recommendation, I bought five million dollars of high yield bonds from what was then Drexel Burnham Lambert.”
Page: Cargill ported commodity traders to arbitrage Treasuries and FX
“They basically were taking some of their best merchants of grain. Think of wheat and bean and corn traders who had phenomenal global experience in Arbitraging cash and futures and options and understanding how to trade on the world stage, and they ported them …”
Page: Cargill gave junior traders generous limits across credit and pensions
“We were all committing capital, so we were in a position to be able to commit capital on our own up to certain limits, so there was this concept of limits, basically, that created the way that we kind of went about the business, but they were pretty generous, …”
Foxconn and Saudi Aramco signed up on Flexport's pre-launch prototype site
“And we got Foxconn signed up, makes, makes the iPhone, Cargill signed up like one of the biggest ad companies in the world. And then one day Saudi Aramco signed up the, National oil company of Saudi Arabia signed up for my fake website.”
Cargill is an investor and client of Descartes Labs
“And, you know, Cargill now is an investor and a client.”
Flexport's First Landing Page Drew Foxconn, Cargill, and Saudi Aramco
“We got in one year, 300 companies to sign up, and I thought it would be all small businesses like my little e-commerce venture, but among the companies that signed up were Foxconn, the maker of the iPhone, Cargill, which is like one of the biggest commodities …”