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What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 13:27 David Senra I, um, I was just recently thinking about this because when I read the book Cable Cowboy, uh, on episode two 68, the founder of the cable company TCI that, that John Malone's going to come in and, and try to rescue really, uh, his name was… 3 times in the scene
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 6:12 David Senra He is actually hired and recruited by the founder named Bob Magnus. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:25 David Senra Ok, so before I go into Bob and the starting of the company, which is really one of my favorite parts of the book, we gotta go with the fact that Malone, in some ways, it was irrational for him to, this is so important for me and you to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:40 David Senra And so let's go into the culture that Bob built. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:09 David Senra Bob had discovered this fledgling industry in a chance encounter in 1952, so 20 years earlier than we were in the story, when he gave two strangers a ride after meeting them in a cotton gin. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 David Senra So once Bob and Betsy start in one market, they keep expanding over the next, uh, 20 years. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 David Senra So not only did Bob have to demonstrate that excellence is the capacity to take pain, listen to what Malone has to go through in the early days.
- ▶ 27:04 David Senra Then through these meetings, selling and running this cable equipment maker, he's going to meet one of his customers is Bob Magnus.
- ▶ 31:38 David Senra So it says Malone called Bob. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:39 David Senra So at this point, Bob is still alive.
- ▶ 44:41 David Senra He's going to pass away a few years before, uh, before John sells the company, uh, to AT&T, but this is what I was mentioning earlier that, that no wonder I can't find a biography on him because bad boys move in silence. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:14 David Senra Gee, John, Turner told Malone, I'm getting rich, and Bob's getting rich, and the only one that's not getting rich is you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:03 David Senra He comes to view Bob as like another father and another mentor, and Bob is dying too. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:14 David Senra And so they take this 14 hour flight to Asia together, and this is what I meant that Bob just knew, he just thought about his industry much more than anybody else. 2 times in the scene