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Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:34:40 David Senra Like, I benefited, he talked to in his, you know, studying deeply, David Packard and Bill Hewlett, among other people, and he's like, well, you know, these people were so helpful for me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:07 David Senra To give ourselves the experience of participating in what Bill Hewlett and David Packard did to start a company.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 27:41 David Senra Before World War II, two Stanford graduates named Bill Hewlett and David Packard created a very innovative electronics company, Hewlett Packard.
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 4:26 David Senra That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel.
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 24:51 David Senra There's a great line from David Packard, the founder of HP, where he says that more companies die from indigestion than starvation.
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 36:39 David Senra Early in his career, when he would call up, like, David Packard, founder of HP, when he was, like, 14.
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 14:35 David Senra People like Edwin Land, Bill Hewlett, and David Packard. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:32:19 David Senra Like, I benefited, he talked to in his, you know, studying deeply, David Packard and Bill Hewlett, among other people, and he's like, well, you know, these people were so helpful for me.
- ▶ 1:35:15 David Senra I was very, very lucky because I got to meet and get to know a little bit of Hewlett, Bill Hewlett, and David Packard, too.
- ▶ 1:47:07 David Senra To give ourselves the experience of participating in what Bill Hewlett and David Packard did to start a company.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:23:32 David Senra Like, his business got too much, way too complex, but a couple weeks ago, I read the, the autobiography of David Packard, and you know, back in the 19 fifties, he said something like, more businesses die from indigestion than starvation.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra David Packard rejected the idea that a company exists merely to maximize profits. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56 David Senra That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is David Packard's autobiography. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 David Senra Remember this for later in, in David, uh, David's autobiography. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:43 David Senra And I think David demonstrates the importance of that by some of the phrases that he uses. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:50 David Senra And so David Packard said, I had decided as far back as grade school that I wanted to be an engineer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 David Senra And so Stanford is also where David is going to meet his co-founder, Bill Hewlett. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 David Senra And why was this conversation so important that David is telling us, uh, relaying it, you know, 40 years after it happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:02 David Senra It's like, what is David's life if he never did this?
- ▶ 18:38 David Senra But this is what David is learning from Charlie. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 David Senra They couldn't decide, is it going to be Packard Hewlett or Hewlett Packard? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 David Senra And so one of the things I loved is David takes us to the history of the company is they grow, they need more space. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 David Senra So now David's got to run the company while Bill's gone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:58 David Senra So you remember early in the book where David is talking to, I think he's the dean of engineering at Stanford. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 David Senra So back to David.
- ▶ 38:00 David Senra And we see that exact same thinking, you know, 4050, 60 years ago with Bill and David. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:13 David Senra Let's go back to this idea that David repeats over and over again. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:12 David Senra Okay, so he's told by his bosses, including David, hey, don't do that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:49 David Senra So this is how the Japanese division of HP is going to teach David Packard and the rest of the company, the importance of working with people with excessively high standards. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:34 David Senra And one of the things I absolutely loved about David Packard's perspective is the fact he's writing this book when he's in his eighties, very close to the end of his life, and he's still relentlessly optimistic. 6 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 19:44 David Senra Dave Packard, for example, left all his money to the foundation, obviously one of the co-founders of HP. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:11 David Senra I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.