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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Disneyland comes up
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
- ▶ 12:32 David Senra You could say that line with Walt Disney and Walt Disney's construction of Disneyland.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 24:04 David Senra To me, this was like Disneyland.
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 9:39 David Senra And what is remarkable is we see a very similar story play out when Walt Disney is building Disneyland.
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 51:52 David Senra So a lot of the great record of Eisner and Wells came just from raising prices at Disneyland and Disney World, and so Munger continues.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 35:31 David Senra It reminded me of the quote that Walt Disney said when he was building Disneyland.
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 45:23 David Senra Of Disneyland with Walt Disney. 4 times in the scene
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 20:03 David Senra And then I'm really glad that I reread this book after I just read the book on how Walt Disney built Disneyland, because I didn't understand the first time through without that additional context that there's another benefit when it comes… 4 times in the scene
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 0:59 David Senra On July 1719 55, Disneyland opened its gates, and the first day was a disaster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17 David Senra So keeping control of his company and then Disneyland. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:53 David Senra And you'll see this in the, this evolution, this multi-year, maybe half decade, maybe decade-long evolution of the idea of Disneyland before he actually makes it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 David Senra To build Disneyland and he had this brilliant idea. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 David Senra I want to go into the prehistory of Disneyland, and his daughter writes this biography, actually wrote, actually ordered a bunch, two or three other books now, maybe four books that I found in the bibliography of, of this book and last… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 David Senra This is so important to understand Disney's approach to his entire life, really, but also for, in particular, to Disneyland. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:38 David Senra I mean, how valuable is Disneyland and theme parks to the Disney empire today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 David Senra The fact is that there was small theme parks, small amusement parks, you know, 60 years before Disneyland. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 David Senra And so in 1952, his original idea is like, I'm going to build Disneyland. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 David Senra We got out and Walt began vividly describing Disneyland, the acres of colorful buildings and places, uh, and all the names of the places like Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and all that, the thousands of people and what they would be doing.
- ▶ 33:13 David Senra They're going all in on Disneyland.
- ▶ 34:01 David Senra Now keep in mind, Disney opens in July, 1955. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:45 David Senra It's going to give him the funding of the park and then be the greatest 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:40 David Senra And this is what they say after a presentation on Disneyland. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 David Senra He has a, like, high levels, uh, like, high standards, and he demands excellence, but he's very informal, and so there's just a ton of unique ways that Disney would recruit talent to work on Disneyland, and so one of the biggest things… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:05 David Senra And so this goes back to this idea that the creation of Disneyland was just Walt Disney's personal taste in physical form, because Disney did not want any formal organizational chart. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:44 David Senra And it is amazing to me how many people that were really important in building Disney, uh, Disneyland were actually, they, they developed skills during the war, during World War II, that they were directly transferable to the work they'd… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:09 David Senra You know, it's very obvious that when they open, this park's gonna be, you know, I think around 80% actually complete. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:40 David Senra So a few days before the park opens, he, it's his, him and his wife's 30th wedding anniversary, and they decided to have a party at Disneyland. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:35 David Senra And that huge moment is the opening, the simulcast live broadcast of the Disneyland show and the opening of Disneyland park. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:13 David Senra The, the way that Disneyland was on day one is not how it's going to be. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 David Senra Disneyland. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 34:02 David Senra It is up and down valleys and peaks over and over again, up until he gets to Disneyland.
- ▶ 46:43 David Senra He uses this at Disneyland.
- ▶ 49:15 David Senra He does this in Disneyland where people are like, oh, we're going to, you know, there's a great way to do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:16 David Senra This is Disneyland. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:39 David Senra It was Disneyland that Walt Disney cared about. 14 times in the scene
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 46:05 David Senra His first Disneyland opened in 1955. 4 times in the scene
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:25:46 David Senra The idea of Freedomland was a, as a fallout from the explosive success of Walt Disney's fabulous Disneyland. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 32:13 David Senra This happened in the life of Walt Disney, in between the problems with his animation studio and him finding a new outlet for, uh, his creative output, which is, winds up being Disneyland and his obsession with amusement parks.