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How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 35:00 David Senra One of my favorite ideas from Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald, in his autobiography, he was talking about, like, why was he so successful compared to the other fast food restaurants that are selling hamburgers, too?
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 5:50 David Senra They are McDonald's.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 44:59 David Senra I'm not worried that McDonald's is gonna come in and, and, and destroy me.
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 16:35 David Senra And they said, you didn't do your research because McDonald's is adding all this variety and all these different things, and you're doing the opposite. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 David Senra It's not, oh, I'm worried about McDonald's, where the founder's been dead for decades.
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 26:48 David Senra Jones had the chance to invest in both McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises.
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 14:23 David Senra And I think this idea can be applied to whether you're building McDonald's to building one of the world's greatest collections of high end luxury hotels. 3 times in the scene
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 14:50 David Senra Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 49:38 David Senra And at the time it was a lot of money, but now he's looking back many, maybe like two decades after, and he's like, oh, this is peanuts because their contract said that they would have, if they would have stuck around, they would get half… 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 5:57 David Senra They are McDonald's.
The Making of McDonald's: The Biography of Ray Kroc
- ▶ 1:10 David Senra So I did some checking and was astonished to learn that the McDonald's had not one multi mixer, not two or three, but eight. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:53 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Grinding It Out, The Making of McDonald's, which is the autobiography of Ray Kroc. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 David Senra They actually married for 35 years and his decision to go all in a McDonald's actually, actually causes them to get divorced.
- ▶ 17:04 David Senra He's going to do the same thing for the McDonald's brothers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:41 David Senra I was just carried away by the thought of McDonald's drive-ins proliferating like rabbits. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:45 David Senra And so the fact that Ray goes all in on McDonald's is what kills his marriage. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 David Senra And so this is the part where the most important person in the McDonald's story, not named Ray Kroc appears. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:48 David Senra That's where the very first McDonald's was, where the McDonald brothers lived. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 David Senra And it's a good thing he did this because the fights with the McDonald's brothers continue. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:08 David Senra He feels California is going to be more valuable, the most valuable state for McDonald's, almost more than any other, uh, all the other states combined at this point. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:56 David Senra And so by now McDonald's is a public corporation. 4 times in the scene