Sony, every mention
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every year anyone Michael Ovitz 4Bill Trenchard 4Chatri Sityodtong 3Jeff Hausenbold 2Graham Weaver 2David Rubenstein 2Ted Seides 1Ryan Batchelor 1Neal Foard 1Larry Mestel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sony comes up
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 23:31 Michael Ovitz Columbia, Sony, and he starts hearing all these things.
- ▶ 31:37 Michael Ovitz I met Steve Schwartzman when he started Blackstone, because Pete Peterson was on the board of MoMA, so we did the first deal together for Sony buying CBS Records, because Pete was on the board of Sony, and I was Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:45 Michael Ovitz And then Sony came out with a video camera, and then Matsushita came out with one Panasonic.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 7:19 Graham Weaver And then in the eighties, Sony came out with the Walkman.
- ▶ 7:19 Graham Weaver And then in the eighties, Sony came out with the Walkman.
Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
- ▶ 41:47 Brett Barakett We were early, one of my partners was like, this mobility thing is going to scale much faster than people think, and the winners are going to be Apple and Google and BlackBerry, and the losers are going to be Nokia and Sony, and so we had…
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 4:20 Ted Seides He served as the worldwide director of creative learning at Saatchi & Saatchi and developed award-winning campaigns for the likes of Budweiser, Lexus, and Sony.
- ▶ 12:35 Neal Foard I would be the creative director that was trying to manage the messaging for a brand like Budweiser or Toyota or Sony.
Howard Smith – Japanese Equities at Indus Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.35)
- ▶ 34:25 Howard Smith Japan has some amazing brands like Nintendo and Sony, but a lot of the high value-added businesses in Japan in which we invest kind of exist behind the veil, if you like, and are not well understood and not well known by people because…
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 11:43 Bill Trenchard And he ran a group at Sony Electronics, doubly good for me because Sony was also a fantastic product company in the eighties, putting out some of the best tech products of the era for consumers, but he also got access to all these great…
- ▶ 11:43 Bill Trenchard And he ran a group at Sony Electronics, doubly good for me because Sony was also a fantastic product company in the eighties, putting out some of the best tech products of the era for consumers, but he also got access to all these great…
- ▶ 12:44 Bill Trenchard And saw some, so ideas that were ahead of their time, like the first general magic device, the magic link, which was foundational to so many things that happened later with mobile devices.
- ▶ 14:44 Bill Trenchard What made a Sony product at that time really great?
Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- ▶ 39:53 Ryan Batchelor So Sony and Nintendo had pre-announced, hey, we're coming out with new gaming consoles two years from now.
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 12:02 David Rubenstein Been a lawyer doing some work for Sony, and Sony's bank was one that Mitsui bank that became an investor, 2 times in the scene
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 13:37 Jeff Hausenbold I thought about strategy and how I was competing with companies like Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Costco, AOL, Yahoo, Kodak, Fuji, Sony, American Greetings. 2 times in the scene
Larry Mestel – Making Music Royalties Sing (Capital Allocators, EP.30)
- ▶ 16:23 Larry Mestel We really want to focus on and unlike the Warner chapels of the world or the universals of the world, the Sony's of the world, the BMG's of the world that have millions and millions of copyrights.
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 40:47 Chatri Sityodtong I remember our first show, Sony gave us 10 free little cameras, just little consumer cameras, and I was so ecstatic because I was like, I can't believe Sony gave us free cameras. 3 times in the scene