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The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 42:45 David Senra So I mean, people like James Dyson, people like Steve jobs, people like Yvonne Chouinard of Patagonia.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 18:55 David Senra I wanted to read books because I love reading books, and I wanted to go outside and chase butterflies, and then we're going to see, this is, I talked about this, I think, last week as well, and the week before, maybe the all-time greatest…
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 16:19 David Senra One of my favorite lines ever describing founder mentality and entrepreneurs comes from Yvonne Chouinard, who is the founder of Patagonia.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 16:33 David Senra And then we're going to see, this is, I talked about this, I think, last week as well, and the week before, maybe the all-time greatest quote on understanding the mindset of an entrepreneur is, comes from Yvonne Chouinard, the founder and…
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 1:32 David Senra The original intent for writing Let My People Go Surfing was for it to be a philosophical manual for the employees of Patagonia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 David Senra I do want to pull out a couple ideas from his very early life before we jump into the beginning of, uh, like the prehistory of Katagonia, which is going to be him starting
- ▶ 11:21 David Senra Part of this idea is he intentionally puts Patagonia through a lot of stress because he feels you need stress to grow. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:03 David Senra He starts his equipment company in 1957 and then Patagonia, 1973. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 David Senra So, uh, so to a basically ugly shape were added all manner of useless chrome gingerbreads like fins at the back and breasts at the front, and this is the punchline, and really speaks to what he discovered with the very first successful,…
- ▶ 18:04 David Senra I think there's an overlap of, like, 10, I think he said he sells off the, he starts Patagonia in 1973, and then sells off the equipment company, I think, in the late eighties, so maybe 15, almost 20 years there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:02 David Senra He says, probably with my friends, including Patagonia founder, Ivan Chouinard, we did a glacier on Mount Rainier. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 David Senra Uh, Yvonne does the same thing with Patagonia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:13 David Senra So it says, uh, we were growing, the company was growing at a rate that if we sustained it, it would make us a billion dollar company in a decade to reach that theoretical billion dollar mark. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 David Senra If Patagonia could survive this crisis, we had to begin to make all of our decisions as though we would be in business for a hundred years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:42 David Senra He's like, he just picked a mission bigger than Patagonia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:11 David Senra So he taught, he's talking about the mail order catalog, but he says the mail order catalog has always been our soapbox and enables us to transmit information about Patagonia's philosophies and products directly. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:53 David Senra At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal, but as the Zen master would say, profits happen when you do everything else right.
- ▶ 57:15 David Senra I always say we're running Patagonia as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now, but that doesn't mean we have a hundred years to get there. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 12:48 David Senra When I think of Jim Clark, I think of what the founder of Patagonia said, Yvon Chouinard.