Dapper Dan

Everything Dapper Dan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Dapper Dan Scaled His Harlem Workshop to 23 Senegalese Tailors

“I was up to 23, tailors. Yeah, all from Senegal.”

Dapper Dan Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 42:18 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley

a16z Assertion Partly supported

Dapper Dan: Tommy Hilfiger built his brand seeding jackets in clubs

“Tommy Hilfiger starts going to the hip hop clubs and giving out Tommy Hilfiger jackets. Ah, yeah, right, right, right. You know, giving them out Tommy Hilfiger jackets, right?”

Dapper Dan Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 52:54 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley

a16z Assertion Supported

Dapper Dan: Father was born in 1898 to a formerly enslaved father

“My father was born in 1898. That's 33 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. My father's father was born a slave and later free.”

Dapper Dan Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 5:10 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley

a16z Assertion Supported

Dapper Dan: Harlem Shifted From Number Games to Drug Culture in 1960s

“The drug epidemic didn't hit to the sixties. So the first part of Harlem, you see, was like numbers, the number game, policy, that used to take place, and everybody used to bet on numbers, and then it was like, They had people who was like had maybe drinking p…”

Dapper Dan Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 14:39 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley

The other half of the tape: Dapper Dan's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Dapper Dan, by other people (1)

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Andreessen: Dapper Dan would have built a multi-billion-dollar brand in another life

“In another life, he'd have gone, he'd have a major national global apparel brand by now worth billions of dollars.”

Ben Horowitz Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 1:57 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dapper's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Founder, Dapper Dan of Harlem	1	28	63% 5/8	full record on the a16z Podcast →