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Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 53:54 David Senra We talked about them, Hedy Green, Jerry Jones, Leon Hess.
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 15:20 David Senra If you look at the past few episodes, like think about Leon Hess, right? 2 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 12:36 David Senra And the three decades that he's on the team, uh, the week before I did the, the episode on Leon Hess, uh, same thing. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 18:09 David Senra But two of the most striking things was just how common, again, like if you look at Jerry Jones this week, Leon Hess last week, the Wallenbergs, Hedy Green, go back to older episodes like Estee Lauder, uh, the Waltons.
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Leon Hess could recite the margins of every gasoline station on the east coast.
- ▶ 3:43 David Senra Leon Hess was a remarkable person who led a remarkable life. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:05 David Senra I want to start the story of Leon Hess. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:55 David Senra Leon reminded me of Sam Bronfman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:21 David Senra So Leon sees an opportunity and he's like, I'm going to bet on oil, specifically fuel oil instead of coal as a more economical way to get energy. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:13 David Senra Leon now has a fleet of about 10 trucks that are buying, you know, this previously disposed fuel oil from other refiners, doing this light boiling, this light refining, and then transferring it and delivering it to other customers… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 David Senra So as a young Leon Hess is trying to build his oil business, World War II breaks out. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:14 David Senra And so I thought of this when I came back because there's, I feel the same exact thing is happening in Leon Hess's life where there's Leon's post-World War II wave. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 David Senra David is almost like, essentially it's just, it's gonna wind up being his father-in-law, but I would think of him as almost like the father that Leon chose. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 David Senra So then Leon continues his March to getting closer and closer to the actual source. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 David Senra At the same time he's building his refineries, he's also starting to expand into gas stations. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:39 David Senra Uh, one of the craziest stories, uh, in the book is Leon's talking about, you know, he's going all over the world to source more oil. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:36 David Senra And one of the things I most admired about Leon was how close he was to not only his son, but his entire, his entire family. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 David Senra Leon was extremely focused on details and appearances, details, details, details over and over again. 20 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:36 David Senra Uh, Leon Hess would also do, uh, things that other competitors were not doing. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:46 David Senra So Leon actually acquires a 20% stake in the New York Jets. 12 times in the scene