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The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 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…
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 19:59 David Senra Akio Morita, who I've told you about a million times, he's the founder of Sony. 5 times in the scene
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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 David Senra Sony hoped to sell 5000 Walkmans a month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:39 David Senra Just as my models, my role models have been like the founder of Honda, Citroen, and Sony.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:21:14 David Senra It's right up there with Nike, Disney, Coke, Sony.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 14:29 David Senra He had spent time with the founder of Sony, one of his heroes, Akio Morita.
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 42:00 David Senra Akil Morita, the founder of Sony would be turning over in his grave. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 8:34 David Senra I shared this a few weeks ago when I did that, that podcast on Akio Morita, founder of Sony. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 0:21 David Senra Today, that company is one of the most powerful and respected multinational corporations in the world, Sony. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 David Senra That are tied directly to the success of Sony, in my opinion, is the fact that Akio had immense, from a young age, immense self-confidence. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 David Senra I don't think there's a Kindle version of the book or else I would have bought it just to search to find out how many times the word, you know, determine I'm determined or the phrase I'm determined or determination is, uh, is said repeats…
- ▶ 22:14 David Senra That's exactly what Akio is going to do with Sony.
- ▶ 23:18 David Senra If you think about the conditions in Japan right before Akio found Sony. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 David Senra So one of the things that, that Steve Jobs admired so much about Sony was their marketing, how impressive their marketing was.
- ▶ 36:37 David Senra You can almost see this almost like a precursor to the Walkman.
- ▶ 39:40 David Senra So this is now he starts understanding the why behind Sony. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 David Senra I do not believe that any amount of market research could have told us that the Sony Walkman would be successful. 11 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:06 David Senra He learns a few things through spending time with all these young people in the company, and he actually found a unique way to, at this point, Sony's a massive company, you know, tens of thousands of employees. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:23 David Senra And so that is why they're constantly, you know, if they just said, oh, we're interested to make the Sony Walkman and maybe the Walkman successful for, for 10 years, 15 years. 2 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:11:14 David Senra He gets his first exposure to corporate M&A, and it's actually with, uh, Sony and Akio Morita. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:45 David Senra Sony had leased it from him for like, 20 years.
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 50:33 David Senra Another founder who understood this at a fundamental level was the founder of Sony, Akio Morita. 2 times in the scene
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 22:05 David Senra One of Steve's heroes was the founder of Sony, Akio Morita, and one of the most successful Sony products of all time are the Walkman or was the Walkman. 2 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 26:41 David Senra Companies like Toyota and Sony are gonna use Demings' ideas, and so Ed realizes, hey, I can actually use Demings' ideas.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:18:21 David Senra It's right up there with Nike, Disney, Coke, Sony.
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 35:55 David Senra I talked about Akio Morita, which is the founder of Sony. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- ▶ 36:10 David Senra We talked about with Jeff Bezos, with the Kia Marita, the founder of Sony, that it's helpful to have a goal larger than just your individual company.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 26:33 David Senra A very, something that was very similar to this is the founder of Sony, Akiya Morita, wrote this fantastic book. 4 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 14:55 David Senra He learned that idea from the founder of Sony, Akiya Morita. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 46:03 David Senra He's saying, listen, this guy knew more about managing and motivating creative people than anyone I've met, including Sony's founder, Akia Morita, Intel's Andy Grove, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Southwest Airlines, Herb Keller.
- ▶ 1:00:21 David Senra In the building of Sony and Polaroid, they both use that idea to great effect.