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How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 19:59 David Senra Akio Morita, who I've told you about a million times, he's the founder of Sony. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 David Senra Akio Morita did it with the Sony Walkman.
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 26:34 David Senra You should go back and listen to the two episodes I did on Akio Morito, who's the founder of Sony.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 14:29 David Senra He had spent time with the founder of Sony, one of his heroes, Akio Morita. 6 times in the scene
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 42:00 David Senra Akil Morita, the founder of Sony would be turning over in his grave. 4 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 8:34 David Senra I shared this a few weeks ago when I did that, that podcast on Akio Morita, founder of Sony. 5 times in the scene
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 0:15 David Senra In this gathering was a young engineer, Akio Morita, then just 25 years old. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 David Senra The book is published in the Texas, 40 years after World War II, and yet where does Akio choose to start his life story, to tell his autobiography at this time? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 David Senra So Akio is from an extremely wealthy family. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 David Senra This actually inadvertently is going to lead him to meeting his eventual co-founder, this genius engineer who's 13 years older than Akio, this guy named Abuka. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 David Senra If you think about the conditions in Japan right before Akio found Sony. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:08 David Senra And that was a skill they had to learn because both Akio and Abuka are engineers. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:59 David Senra And Akio decides, Hey, I'm going to go all over the world 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:26 David Senra Another lesson from McKeown is autobiography is that if you know why you are doing what you're doing, hard decisions become a lot easier. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:05 David Senra I think Akio would agree with that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:54 David Senra The Sony president and Akio keeps fighting about the law, the advertising and marketing plan for this new product. 3 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:11:14 David Senra He gets his first exposure to corporate M&A, and it's actually with, uh, Sony and Akio Morita. 4 times in the scene
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 50:33 David Senra Another founder who understood this at a fundamental level was the founder of Sony, Akio Morita. 3 times in the scene
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 22:05 David Senra One of Steve's heroes was the founder of Sony, Akio Morita, and one of the most successful Sony products of all time are the Walkman or was the Walkman.
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 35:55 David Senra I talked about Akio Morita, which is the founder of Sony. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- ▶ 36:10 David Senra We talked about with Jeff Bezos, with the Kia Marita, the founder of Sony, that it's helpful to have a goal larger than just your individual company.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 26:33 David Senra A very, something that was very similar to this is the founder of Sony, Akiya Morita, wrote this fantastic book. 4 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 14:55 David Senra He learned that idea from the founder of Sony, Akiya Morita. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 46:03 David Senra He's saying, listen, this guy knew more about managing and motivating creative people than anyone I've met, including Sony's founder, Akia Morita, Intel's Andy Grove, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Southwest Airlines, Herb Keller.
- ▶ 1:00:12 David Senra So in the last episode, I talked about this idea that Edwin Land used, that Akio Morita used, and I think it's a very powerful idea.