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Kalanick: Uber never passed anti-competitor regulations or donated to political campaigns
“We had never at Uber, we never
Got a regulation passed that would hurt a competitor.
We never would do that.
That's just not how we rolled.
We never donated to a campaign.
Ever.
To try to get something passed.”
Glyman: Ramp Was First to Unify Corporate Cards and Expense Systems
“It's part of why we're the first in the industry to go look at expenses and say, like, why are there two systems involved in buying every single thing you do?”
Stoute: Independent music has outgrown major labels in frontline new release market share
“So I guess the good news out of all of this, since we started United Masses, is that the independent music space, and there's a lot of us, have outgrown on the front line The major labels. So if you talk about new releases, market share, the independents have …”
Ivanka Trump: 40% of US produce is plowed under for cosmetic reasons
“Planet Harvest, which I co-founded with my good friend, Melissa Ackerman, that's helping find use for the 40% of fruits and vegetables we grow in this country every single year that don't even make it out of the field. They get plowed under because they don't …”
BMG Sold Its Take-Two Stake for $14M Right Before GTA Released
“So we sell the stock in the open market for, wait for it, fourteen million dollars. So a month later, this public company launches the first property that we had completed into the market.”
Ovitz: Stanley Kubrick never had any talent agent besides Michael Ovitz
“He never had an agent except me, and I could talk to him because Marty basically educated me”
Ovitz: CAA never lost a single agent during his tenure
“We didn't lose an agent in the whole time I was at CA, not one.”
Söderström: Apple Podcasts held 98.5% market share before Spotify's entry
“And when we looked at their usage, I think Apple podcast was still like 98 and a half percent.”
Ivanka Trump says her former fashion brand topped $800M in annual sales
“My fashion brand, we were doing over eight hundred million in sales annually.”
Donald Trump never spent a night in D.C. before the White House
“He'd never spent a night in Washington until his first night in the White House.”
Take-Two Acquired BMG Interactive for 20% Equity Worth $20M
“It's a little tiny public company with a, I want to say roughly a hundred million dollar market cap, and they agree to give us 20% of their company in stock for the business, such as it was. So, twenty million dollars.”
Foroughi: AppLovin generated $1.3B cash in a single quarter
“I mean, run, run rate wise, I think Q one we made, or I guess Q four, what we just announced in, in Q one was I think it was 1.3 billion in cash just in a single quarter.”
Iovine: Beats was number one in 50 countries when sold to Apple
“When we sold to Apple, we were number one in 50 countries, man. We were number one In Germany, in Sennheiser was number two. We were number one in, in Japan, and Sony was number two.”
Ovitz introduced Nobu Matsuhisa to Robert De Niro to start Nobu
“Several years later, I introduced Nobu to Bob De Niro, and he and Nobu started the present business with a sushi restaurant called Nobu”
Dell: US electricity demand grew at inflation rate over 50 years
“Over the last 50 years, demand for electricity in the U.S. Has grown at basically the rate of inflation, so it has not really grown much.”
Stoute: HP Distributed Early iPods Because Apple Lacked Retail Sales
“Remember HP was the partner for the iPod. They, they're the ones who put it in all of the best buys and circuit cities or whatever the retailers were around the world. Apple didn't have the sales team to do that.”
Atari Produced More E.T. Cartridges Than Total Consoles in Existence
“Because they didn't really have a lot of experience in how video games were made, they basically, they made the game in five weeks and put it in the box, and it was a terrible game, and then they manufactured more games, more cartridges than there were Atari c…”
Take-Two Historically Lost Money Three Out of Every Four Years
“When GTA released, the company would have a meaningful profit, like, a hundred or so a year, but it only released every four years. They lost money the rest of the time.”
White: The Power Slap Reality Show Has 50M YouTube Views
“Power Slap's reality show is at, like, fifty million views on YouTube.”
Bruno Mars's Roblox event drew 20 million users across sharded instances
“So in Bruno Mars, we're talking twenty million people but those are sharded amongst copies of experiences.”
Andreessen: Only 1 of 12 Recruits Agreed to Join Jim Clark
“So there were like a dozen of us in there. And I remember that dinner very, very precisely for two reasons. Number one is I was the only one of the dozen to basically to say yes.”
Two-thirds of podcast guests say early bets were ultimate kindness
“Some person on Twitter or something went and compiled every answer, there's 500 answers or whatever, and categorized them and like made a pie chart of like what people say, and something like two-thirds of the answer to this question were the same, which was t…”
Baszucki: Knowledge Revolution got very far without outside funding
“Knowledge Revolution got very far without raising any money.”