Japan, every mention
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every year anyone David Senra 13Michael Ovitz 10Strauss Zelnick 2Mati Staniszewski 2Daniel Ek 2Michael Dell 1Marc Andreessen 1Jimmy Iovine 1James Dyson 1David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 11:28 Mati Staniszewski It's so much knowledge that could break, be brought into so many different entrepreneurs worldwide, like in Japan. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 32:55 David Senra It's on the founder of Honda, who's competing in Japan. 4 times in the scene
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 17:16 Michael Ovitz Uh, companies in Japan that at the time had 15 to twenty billion dollars of liquidity on their balance sheet, unheard of in the late eighties.
- ▶ 19:09 Michael Ovitz In the early eighties, I was going to Japan once a month for business, and friends of mine were going, and they'd come back, and they'd call me, and they said, my God, I just had the greatest meeting in Japan. 6 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 50:09 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) When I first picked up Ruby back in the early 2000, it was an obscure programming language out of Japan that only a handful of people in the West were using, and it didn't have a killer app.
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 40:24 Strauss Zelnick It was Japan. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 52:11 Marc Andreessen He actually got this incredible deal.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 47:46 Jimmy Iovine We were number one in, in Japan, and Sony was number two.
James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
- ▶ 1:22:24 David Senra The first successful license was Japan, right?
- ▶ 1:24:42 James Dyson Because I was traveling to Japan and America all the time, and I was just sick of it, and I got meningitis from it, I think, from an airplane.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 9:33 Michael Ovitz I did a, ah, when I was in town, which I tried to be in town four days, three to four days a week, but I traveled to New York every week, to Japan once a month, and to Europe once a month, and, but I did, I, I decided to do everything…
- ▶ 31:01 Michael Ovitz And I remember meeting him because I would go sometimes for business or occasionally by myself because the one great lesson I learned very early on going to Japan is the best place in the world to eat if you're alone is at a sushi bar…
- ▶ 1:22:37 David Senra Why would they fly to Japan and want to go meet them and spend time with them and read their books and study them? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02:31 Michael Ovitz I could be in Japan.
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 1:19 David Senra This keeps reoccurring in all these biographies of history-based entrepreneurs that I read, and so I just did this episode on Jiro, the best sushi chef in Japan, right?
- ▶ 16:26 David Senra It's like, do I, do I, am I, do I actually have to be there?
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 52:17 Michael Dell I went to, I went to Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea.
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 15:49 David Senra Millions of homes of Japanese.
- ▶ 1:49:28 Daniel Ek I mean, I love Japan for this reason, right? 2 times in the scene