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Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 36:08 Luca Ferrari And maybe it's easier or it was, was easier and certainly easier in the States.
- ▶ 1:33:53 Luca Ferrari Ok, just show me just for the US.
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 44:02 Mati Staniszewski Klarna, PugBank, like all of those companies are, are just moving, moving, moving at another speed or customers bank in the US here.
Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- ▶ 2:50 David Senra Before that, was there any other inflection point, or did the, the, the demand for electricity in the United States just kind of grow like linearly? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:32 Zach Dell Regulated and deregulated states in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:24 Zach Dell Battery pack, you know, highly, uh, optimized battery pack assembly business in the US was going to be a really strong position to be in. 4 times in the scene
How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 51:26 Doug Leone Somehow they know what America needs way over there when they work at 8200, which is one of the units in a government uh,, you know uh,, in Israel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:08 Doug Leone I had to learn that first coming, you know, I, I, I, I went from Italy to New York City, which was halfway to America, and then to California, where, where, where everybody told me, yes, give me the, give me the feedback, the honest…
Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 4:28 David Senra And essentially it's about the United States converting their, you know, industrial and commercial, uh, industrial power from making products that people would buy to making war materials and just mass producing more than the opposition…
- ▶ 11:17 Torsten Reil And, you know, the US had companies like Andrew and Palantir that were very forward looking defense companies with a big focus on,
- ▶ 13:40 Torsten Reil You know, both in the US as well as in Europe, but at the time it was extremely unpopular.
- ▶ 20:33 Torsten Reil And it's up there with other big companies from the US and other countries.
- ▶ 45:00 David Senra Like if I'm a country, like, or a continent, let's say we're European, it means I can't outsource some of this production to China or to America or to South America or anywhere else.
- ▶ 1:17:59 David Senra And he realized there's these huge tax incentives that were taking place in America at post-World War II. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 13:41 Travis Kalanick Think of, you know, some people would think of Lyft or UberX, this kind of thing in the US context.
- ▶ 24:40 David Senra What, in a, in a, in a mature market in the United States, in these big cities that I'm using Uber, what would, how would the network effects of Uber be reversed?
- ▶ 38:19 Travis Kalanick So what happens is, uh, being anti-competitive is illegal in the United States, unless you get a government official or regulator to do it for you, then it's legal.
- ▶ 1:39:21 Travis Kalanick You know, like I was talking to one of the large food suppliers in the U S they supply all the food to the, um, uh, to the restaurants.
The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:15 Lulu Cheng Meservey Yeah, I grew up in China, then Germany, Norway, Canada, at which point we were able to become Canadian citizens, which was very exciting and welcoming for us, and then grand slam, big dream, the United States. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:18 Lulu Cheng Meservey And in the U.S., you wear your costume to school, and you have a little parade, and it's awesome.
- ▶ 8:21 Lulu Cheng Meservey If Alibaba is having its biggest IPO in the US, um, the things that they have to overcome are not just normal business things.
- ▶ 40:07 David Senra The reason that, uh, one of the reasons that America is the most powerful and prosperous nation on the planet, it should be celebrated.
- ▶ 1:12:45 Lulu Cheng Meservey Um, they're living in the U.S.
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 20:32 David Senra His idea was like, hey, we're gonna sell, we're gonna try to disrupt the German athletic shoes with Japanese, they're Japanese competitors, and he got a lot of pushback because of the, essentially, tension between America and Japan at the…
- ▶ 55:53 Michael Ovitz To a U.S. trade delegation in 1996 by President Clinton.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 8:09 Micky Malka So, it doesn't matter if you were in the 19 seventies when there was a little bit of inflation or high inflation in America compared to standards, and he talked there about how he treated float and how float of insurance worked.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 55:00 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) One of the things that always tripped me up when I came to the US originally that will crack Jason up is the notion of the construction kit burger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:39 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) When I came to the US, I think I had like, 50 grand that we had worked up as we started Basecamp.
The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick
- ▶ 0:19 Jeff Zalaznick This is the pool we're sitting in right now, which is probably the most historic restaurant in America. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:35 Jeff Zalaznick Yeah, so carbon tomato sauce, you know, for example, which is sold in thousands of doors across America, right?
- ▶ 1:30:56 David Senra When does it come to the States? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:23 Jeff Zalaznick A hundred yards in each direction, exactly, basically, from this restaurant are two of the highest grossing restaurants in America. 4 times in the scene
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 0:52 Eric Glyman Uh, over three percent of all of the corporate card transactions in the United States, uh, are powered by ramp, and nearly one percent of all the corporate transactions, uh, are running through ramp. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:07 Eric Glyman And if you play out what they and OpenAI, just the two labs, are on track to do in revenue and call it a year's time, uh, I think it'd be reasonably conservative at this point to say they're gonna pass more than three hundred billion…
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 0:31 Jonathan Ross The best way to describe why this helps is if you were building out a logistics network for the United States, and I told you you could have either 18 wheelers or, uh, you know, vans for last mile delivery, which one would you pick?
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 3:22 Scott Wu My parents came to the U.S. in some sense because of Go, which was kind of a funny coincidence because my dad, um, was in grad school in China, and he had a professor who, like, really liked him. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Scott Wu I mean, my parents even, like, drilled this into me because they grew up in, you know, in communist China, um, and they came to the US. 2 times in the scene
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 1:14:10 Steve Stoute Phenomenal, and I watched this, and I remember watching, I had to book a local gym and watch him shoot a thousand shots, and then he had these tapes of Michael Jordan going right, Michael Jordan going left, Michael Jordan guarding people…
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 1:29 Gustav Söderström I remember when I joined Spotify, it was back in 2008, 2009, and then we were gonna go to the U.S. and, um, Daniel, uh, knew, uh, Suck at Meta, then Facebook, and we wanted to do this pretty deep integration with him, and
- ▶ 4:07 Gustav Söderström But I think maybe most Americans specifically can mistake humbleness for weakness.
- ▶ 54:17 Gustav Söderström Hip hop, which is the, you know, has the largest appeal in the US and all these powerful people.
- ▶ 1:04:11 Gustav Söderström You can't expect someone to come in, especially if they come from corporate America and expect them to like stand up to you, because usually there are consequences.
- ▶ 1:08:19 Gustav Söderström And so they get to go on this program to where they go out into the different markets, like India, US, you know, Germany, et cetera, and learn about the different problems in different markets.
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 58:26 Ivanka Trump So, you know, it's an amazing thing that in America, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:24 David Senra There's no, he doesn't have electricity, for God's sake, he doesn't have access to anything else, and this was when Carnegie was building all these free libraries and putting them all over the United States in these tiny communities, and…
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 1:33:05 Strauss Zelnick I mean, I look at the media day broadly and according to activate a consultancy, the media day is like 13 hours in the US and anything that fits within the media day
Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
- ▶ 28:39 Dana White We traveled the thing all around the United States and the world, and we built a live event that when you come to the live event,
- ▶ 52:27 David Senra Just him deciding not to stay in this fucked up place and come to America and then me be born, you know, 30 years later or whatever the case was. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:23 Dana White So, um, I got my fucking lawyer calling every place in America. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 30:53 Adam Foroughi I understood capital market arbitrage and late, what was going on in the markets and, and was that you had China investors buying a lot of us tech companies because the Chinese capital markets had just opened up via the, the market over… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:23 Adam Foroughi Um, most of the companies you work with, they're not even in the States, they're in Europe and Asia.
- ▶ 1:22:28 Adam Foroughi Well, for us in our business on the, on one hand, we have billion users who are playing games, billion plus users who are playing games every single day around the world in the U S over a hundred and fifty million only adults.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 1:00:22 David Baszucki I think the flywheel would be akin to saying what's the flywheel, hopefully of the early phone system, like way back in that day when AT&T comes out with the phone system, and there's, there's probably some time where only five percent of…
- ▶ 1:17:40 David Senra If you look at, like, their empathy or their, like, uh, they're way more attracted to, like, socialistic ideas, you know, than, than I think, like, your generation was, and definitely my generation was, especially in, you know, in America.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:02:16 David Senra He was manufacturing high end technology in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:07 David Senra America, baby.
- ▶ 1:13:07 Evan Spiegel So, you know, the core of our advertising business from the early days really grew around, you know, as a small number in the, you know, in the hundreds of large customers in the United States really built around a brand business. 3 times in the scene
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 2:01 Tony Xu No, actually, yeah, I, I think one of the biggest misconceptions when we were founded was just how wide open the space was, where there were about a million restaurants in the States, and maybe 20 to 25,000 of them offered deliveries. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:26 Tony Xu Palo Alto had the following, which is if you looked at places like Palo Alto, it's really, um, it, you know, represents I think most cities in the US or a lot of the world where you have main streets, and then you kind of have, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Tony Xu Car ownership is one of the lowest in Boston, you know, in the United States versus other places.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 55:26 David Senra And he goes, America's a pretty competitive place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:46 David Senra Manufacturing used to be highly valued in the United States.
- ▶ 1:25:59 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, Tesla is building a lot of things in the U.S. and now working backwards into their own supply chain. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 28:46 Marc Andreessen So if you read about the sort of the original investment banks in the US between like, like, 1880 and 1920, they were all like boutique venture capital firms in the 19 seventies, 19 eighties in the US. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:11 Marc Andreessen The bicycle rolls out in, like, 1870, 1880, and so the, the US still at that point was, like, you know, thinly populated, you know, from today, and, but the West had been settled, and so you had all these little towns and villages…
- ▶ 1:43:59 Marc Andreessen Well, I will say the idea of, the idea of being, having been a software entrepreneur, building a car company, okay, building a, when Tesla started building, there had been no new successful car companies in the United States for like a… 4 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 0:49 Brian Armstrong It matters because in the United States, we have two different federal regulators, a CFTC and the SEC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Brian Armstrong Asked, my understanding, this is kind of what other people in the Congress told me, is that she asked Gary Gensler to go hard on crypto and like try to really curtail it in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Brian Armstrong Like, if it's going to be short-term pain for a few years while we're going through this, but it allows the industry to actually be built in the United States and help create more economic freedom, which is the mission of the company, then… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Brian Armstrong Um, if you remember at this time, like, every company in America was posting pro BLM statements.
- ▶ 32:39 Brian Armstrong So, um, in the US and Europe, it was a little simpler.
- ▶ 43:16 Brian Armstrong Once we managed to get that bank partnership set up and an easy way to buy so in the US, I mean, we were, we had instant product market fit, and it was just like trying to keep up with the demand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:07 Brian Armstrong It's called ACH in the US. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:37 Brian Armstrong We sort of take this for granted in the United States that, you know, usually like the money is just not going to get taken out of your bank account or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:08 David Senra Derived from those two, especially in America, those are the two most influential and powerful, you know, people media.
- ▶ 1:47:27 Brian Armstrong One other idea I'm interested in is actually like special economic zones, um, in the US or, or elsewhere, where there's such a, there's such a morass of red tape, uh, both federally and state and local to try to innovate sometimes that… 3 times in the scene
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 1:08 Jason Fried And I opened it up, and somebody printed out this, this piece of paper, uh, which was the thing I included with the software and gave me a 20 dollar crisp U.S. bill, right?
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 55:24 Jimmy Iovine An Italian neighborhood, only in America.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 1:32:45 Tobi Lütke For a company that's trying to sell like the e-commerce platform for every, everyone, especially for the many American companies,
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 2:10 David Senra You're like, we're going to change the way that the country eats. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:28 John Mackey When, when Whole Foods started, there were only, like, three or four other natural food supermarkets in the United States.
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 25:49 Patrick O'Shaughnessy He was one of the richest men in, in the United States.
- ▶ 55:59 David Senra One guy's a rock star, one guy becomes president of the United States, and it's the same thing.
- ▶ 1:45:28 Patrick O'Shaughnessy I love the fact that Thomas Jefferson on his tombstone, uh, has three things that describe his life, but one of them is not that he was the president of the United States.
- ▶ 1:56:35 David Senra I have to go to a country that, like, I don't know anybody. 2 times in the scene
James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
- ▶ 16:14 David Senra Especially in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 James Dyson Um, for example, uh, the ball-bearer is copied in America by an ex-employee and another company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 David Senra And so for America, I had to look this up.
- ▶ 57:17 James Dyson From manufacturing made America great, it made Britain great.
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 37:58 Michael Ovitz He made things that I'd never had before outside of the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:39 Michael Ovitz The Americans invented the transistor and licensed it to Japan, to Sony, for 25,000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:59 Michael Ovitz In America, failure is a badge of honor.
- ▶ 1:58:15 David Senra I'm, you know, hugely pro-capitalistic and hugely pro-American, and you can't do, um, fireworks here because of all the fires. 3 times in the scene
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 9:23 Todd Graves There's a lot of stuff you can't import in, plus it's very expensive to do that, for them to import it in from the United States where we get it currently.
- ▶ 14:13 Todd Graves You know, now I can say, hey, you know, actually we've had the same thing over the United States.
- ▶ 50:21 Todd Graves McDonald's started in the U.S.
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 1:37:41 David Senra And that was an edge that no, not, not another retailer on the planet had, or at least in America had, that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:32 Brad Jacobs He could be president of the United States someday.
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 1:44 David Senra They're like, just, this guy was manufacturing computers in America.
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