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How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 23:50 David Senra They actually, you know, a few weeks ago when you and I were talking about the founder of Honda, he had that original insight. 2 times in the scene
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 4:56 David Senra In fact, it sounds very similar if you listened to a few weeks ago when I did the episode on the founder of Honda. 2 times in the scene
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 37:07 David Senra If you listen to my episode on the founder of Honda last week or two weeks ago, the founder of Honda would repeat this over and over again. 2 times in the scene
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 1:40 David Senra There is a man named Honda who very much dominates the history of the company and its products. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 David Senra The Honda Super Cub has been in constant and uninterrupted production for over 60 years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 David Senra When he founds Honda, one of the principles in the founding of Honda was always start with the hardest problem first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 David Senra He developed a great interest in racing cars, their design, how to build them, and how to race them, which was to become basic to the success of the Honda organization later on.
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra Much of this experience he translated after World War II into the production of Honda's motorcycles.
- ▶ 23:13 David Senra And so this is in 1949, Honda is 43 years old, and this is the beginning of a company that is still thriving.
- ▶ 26:42 David Senra Honda was facing bankruptcy since many of the products it sold were just not being paid for. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:05 David Senra So Fujisawa is going to be built a distribution network from scratch for Honda's products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:02 David Senra Honda tells the young men joining the company that they should understand that they are working first for themselves and second for the company, and that they must do something that pleases them.
- ▶ 32:27 David Senra Then the company had an assets in the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 David Senra And once they come out of recession, Honda has a fantastic product in the Super Cub. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 David Senra And once they come out of recession, Honda has a fantastic product in the Super Cub. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:54 David Senra So then I need to get to the fact that really, I would think of Honda's like basically like a giant research and development organization. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:46 David Senra Now, one of the most fascinating parts of the book is the fact that there was another legendary company that you and I have both talked about and studied in the past that was started at the exact same time in Japan as Honda, and that is… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:06 David Senra Honda also feels his company's unique and should go it alone, so most of his competitors at the time are merging or doing joint ventures with larger American car manufacturers, so like Mitsubishi goes and partners with Chrysler, Isuzu… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:17 David Senra It says Honda is different. 4 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 5:32 David Senra Maybe you'd grab a Honda engine, a Ford transmission, a BMW chassis, a GM electrical system, and buy them and try to assemble them into a working car.
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 25:04 David Senra So like the founder of Honda, uh, the founders of Sony, the designer of the mini, the mini Cooper, uh, the inventor of the jet engine.
- ▶ 1:04:39 David Senra Just as my models, my role models have been like the founder of Honda, Citroen, and Sony. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:53 David Senra When, when Dyson was in college, he would run around, he would drive a Super Cub, the Honda motorcycle. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 26:20 David Senra One of the last employees to leave, Bob Wallace, while driving along Route 66 towards Seattle in his Honda Civic, noticed a green dot appear in the rear, in his rearview mirror.