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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 24:06 David Senra So there's a lot of thinking in similarities and thinking between spinning out R and D between what happened is happening here in the story and what the founder of Honda was doing in Japan as well.
- ▶ 48:09 David Senra Being in his, uh, you know, room building gadgets, but he did go and, uh, accept this prize in Japan, which I thought was very interesting.
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 0:59 David Senra I think it's a, gives a wonderful overview of who Honda was and the kind of just really, this is a story of a Japanese maverick. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 David Senra Honda's thoughts are often controversial in terms of Japanese attitudes, which requires so much conformity from members of society. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:55 David Senra And it's exactly what he has forced to do because in Japanese society, older people were favored way more. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 David Senra Some said I should open a garage since the number of automobiles was bound to increase rapidly in Japan.
- ▶ 28:28 David Senra He sat down and wrote a letter to a list of 18,000 bicycle shop owners in the whole of Japan.
- ▶ 29:56 David Senra Which was enjoying overwhelming popularity in Japan in those post-war days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 David Senra At this time, there's a lot of other people in Japan trying to petition the government to essentially stop importing foreign goods and essentially protect their goods. 6 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…
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 20:18 David Senra We're ready to ship the master chip design to Japan.
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 6:47 David Senra Being a business buff, I knew that Japanese cameras had made deep cuts into the camera market, which had once been dominated by the Germans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 David Senra So she'd be in like a dress with these Japanese running shoes and she'd be doing, you know, she'd be cooking dinner or doing any kind of housework as a demonstration of support for her son. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:55 David Senra And so he finds out where Adidas is manufacturing some of their other shoes that are outside of Japan and decides to visit those factories, many of which are in Central America.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Won
- ▶ 41:25 David Senra I worked out seminars all over the world, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, France,
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 3:05 David Senra In the magazine, it mentioned that the top corporate taxpayer in Japan that year
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 36:37 David Senra He does this by going to Japan, which their economy was doing great at the time. 2 times in the scene
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
- ▶ 2:33 David Senra I went to Japan for the first time, uh, last year.
- ▶ 15:06 David Senra So tuna dealer, the best tuna dealer that in Japan is saying, I'm anti-establishment.
- ▶ 18:27 David Senra I don't think they get to the Japan until like 2007.
- ▶ 20:35 David Senra So in Japan, it says the older son is expected to take over the family business.
- ▶ 24:42 David Senra They then tell a story when they were little kids and Coca-Cola comes to Japan for the first time ever.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 14:23 David Senra In this interview, I don't think I'm going to include it, but he talks about the fact that Jobs had previously flown to Japan.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 8:56 David Senra And in Akio's case is like, you know, Jet, he's starting a company in Japan in 1946. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 0:09 David Senra Their optimistic goal was to develop the technologies that would help rebuild Japan's economy. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 David Senra As a technical officer, just at a college with a degree in physics, I understood what the bomb was and what it meant to Japan and to me. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:29 David Senra I was born the first son and the fifth generation heir to one of Japan's finest and oldest sake brewing families. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 David Senra Uh, so it becomes obvious by this point, uh, that Japan is not going to win the war. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 David Senra If you think about the conditions in Japan right before Akio found Sony. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 David Senra Until that shortage could be corrected, the courts of Japan were trying to cope with a small, overworked core of court stenographers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 David Senra Maybe I thought we could do the same in Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:15 David Senra Now Sony winds up being the first Japanese company to sell their stock in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:24 David Senra We may be poorer countries as China in the 19 seventies, Soviet union, 19 seventies. 5 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 1:01:34 David Senra To Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:21:31 David Senra Coming home to a mountain of pink message slips, calling Japan till midnight, and starting all over six hours later.
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 1:08:34 David Senra From reading a magazine article and like, Hey, uh, the richest guy in Japan, I think it was a country makes these like energy tonics.
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
- ▶ 43:17 David Senra So he would talk about like Les Schwab was surfing the wave of brand new Japanese tire imports into America. 2 times in the scene
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 1:14:42 David Senra After World War II, if you thought Japan and Germany were doomed, boy, were you wrong.
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 15:54 David Senra My father had grown up during the Great Depression, and when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese in 1941, he was just 20 years old.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 25:50 David Senra oh, he was riding the wave of this Japanese, this new Japanese tire import trend.
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 33:48 David Senra From reading a magazine article and like, Hey, uh, the richest guy in Japan, I think it was a country makes these like energy tonics.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 3:00 David Senra Not long after that, he was sitting at the bar at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong, and he was reading a magazine in the magazine and mentioned that the top corporate taxpayer in Japan that year was the maker of such tonics.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 16:07 David Senra I had to contend with this until I made connections with the Toyo Tire Company from Japan. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 4:20 David Senra He had hustled oil to Japan for the Standard Oil Company, and he had been a seal hunter in the Indian Ocean.
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 29:48 David Senra This, this idea of continuous improvement that he learned from the Japanese.
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
- ▶ 18:57 David Senra There's a lot of, uh, similarities between what's taking place in 1899 and 1900 in South Africa coming from the British, as we covered last week, 40 years after this, the British attitude and I guess opinion towards the Japanese, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:39 David Senra This is like the four seasons compared to the stuff that was going on with Alistair Urquhart in Singapore and Japan last week.
Listen to this when you’re stressed: The Life of Alistair Urquhart
- ▶ 14:21 David Senra Japanese bombs started raining down on us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:11 David Senra And so the Japanese are like, yeah, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:56 David Senra So now he's actually on the Japanese mainland.
- ▶ 46:23 David Senra The Japanese invaded and he was taken hostage. 3 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 26:32 David Senra Edward Demings, who is an American working in Japan, actually helping, uh, the Japanese, like, manufacturing industry.
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 38:42 David Senra In Japan, the sons-in-laws are often brought into the family with all the rights of a child by birth. 6 times in the scene
Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
- ▶ 2:14 David Senra She made her way from China to Japan and then booked passage on a Japanese peanut boat. 2 times in the scene
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
- ▶ 1:05:24 David Senra He has to go and essentially, like, live in Japan for weeks at a time. 4 times in the scene
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 36:16 David Senra Right after World War II, Akiya Morita, the guy who founded Sony, made the mission for Sony that they were gonna make Japan known for quality. 3 times in the scene
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 41:58 David Senra So they have this joint venture going on in Japan. 3 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 15:15 David Senra Right after World War II, Akiya Morita, the guy who founded, this is Jeff talking, right after World War II, Akiya Morita, the guy who founded Sony, made the mission for Sony that they were going to make Japan known for quality. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 7:52 David Senra He says, I often compare the experience of going to Japan for the first time, going to Tokyo for the first time, to what Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend must have gone through.
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 48:05 David Senra Germany and Japan were handicapped by an inadequate level of conversion to munitions production and utterly haphazard planning procedures.