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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Stanford University comes up
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 38:55 David Senra The reason I say this is because it was written in 1997 by two Stanford MBA students. 2 times in the scene
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 1:38 David Senra Earned a master's from a top business school, Stanford.
- ▶ 18:20 David Senra He hadn't sent me to Oregon and Stanford to become a door-to-door shoe salesman, he said.
- ▶ 36:36 David Senra He says, I didn't send you to Stanford to be a teacher, and certainly not a teacher at Portland State University.
How To Run Down A Dream
- ▶ 3:26 David Senra We went and ate burritos across the street from Stanford, Sam told me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:46 David Senra After he graduated Stanford, Sam had a two-hour conversation with Les Alexander, who owned the Houston Rockets NBA franchise at the time.
- ▶ 7:45 David Senra And started teaching a few courses at Stanford.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 18:46 David Senra And another is a speech at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 1:02:13 David Senra It's called in the company of giants to Stanford MBA students wrote it back in 97.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:39:47 David Senra And so a few years before he gives this legendary commencement address that's been viewed, you know, tens of millions of times, probably a hundred million times right now at Stanford, he talks to the actual 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:18 David Senra And so then there's just a few things that I want to pull out from the actual commencement address at Stanford University.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 27:41 David Senra Before World War II, two Stanford graduates named Bill Hewlett and David Packard created a very innovative electronics company, Hewlett Packard.
- ▶ 30:07 David Senra By the time I was a senior, I'd gotten permission to spend about half my time at Stanford taking classes.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 19:53 David Senra And in 1997, these two Stanford MBA students are doing interviews with, like, 16 technology company CEOs.
- ▶ 24:11 David Senra At a recent event at Stanford, a young woman came to the microphone and asked me a great question.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 36:49 David Senra He hadn't sent me to Oregon and Stanford to become a door-to-door shoe salesman, he said.
- ▶ 1:32:09 David Senra It's interviews with two Stanford MBA students from in the late nineties interview, like, 16 tech company founders.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 41:43 David Senra I think it's episode two Oh eight where the Stanford MBA students interview like 16 or 17
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 4:41 David Senra My daughter went to Stanford.
- ▶ 37:36 David Senra This is what Jones was referencing earlier at the very beginning where he's like, I'm going to drill for gas out in San Francisco when my daughter was at Stanford.
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 10:47 David Senra He's got a full-time job and he decides he wants to go to Stanford.
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 22:29 David Senra Stanford University was encouraging engineering businesses to locate near Palo Alto and use the university's research facilities.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 16:43 David Senra Think about his most famous speech ever is the commencement address he gave at Stanford.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:36:32 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly, and they're interviewing a bunch of technology company founders, and in there, Steve Jobs is one of them.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 34:53 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly, and they're interviewing a bunch of technology company founders, and in there, Steve Jobs is one of them.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:11:26 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly, and they're interviewing a bunch of technology company founders, and in there, Steve Jobs is one of them.
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:30:20 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly, and they're interviewing a bunch of technology company founders, and in there, Steve Jobs is one of them.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 59:49 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly, and they're interviewing a bunch of technology company founders, and in there, Steve Jobs is one of them.
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 10:11 David Senra It's UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford, and the U of U.
Mark Twain's Biography
- ▶ 6:14 David Senra It comes from his Stanford commencement address where he's talking about the fact that he was taking all these classes, uh, after he dropped out of Reed college and he wasn't gonna, he didn't know at the time he was just learning new…
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 13:31 David Senra By the time I think he's 13, uh, Tiger's getting recruited by like Stanford.
- ▶ 34:01 David Senra Um, Tiger eventually gets recruited to Stanford,
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:43:43 David Senra And so then we go back to this idea that Steve loved to email himself all these notes and, like, kind of document what he's thinking, and so there's this actually long, longer part of the book that's multiple emails of him over, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:50:23 David Senra And so then there's just a few things that I want to pull out from the actual commencement address at Stanford University. 2 times in the scene
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 1:02 David Senra In 1995, Packard attended a dinner at Stanford University. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 David Senra The first event that he's referencing is the fact that he was admitted into Stanford University. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 David Senra That's actually a really important sentence because this interest leads him to going to Stanford, which then leads in turn to the founding of HP. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 David Senra And so Stanford is also where David is going to meet his co-founder, Bill Hewlett.
- ▶ 17:51 David Senra My schedule then was to go to classes at Stanford in the mornings, work with Bill, and also find time to study in the afternoon, and then go to Litton Laboratories in the evening.
- ▶ 29:58 David Senra So you remember early in the book where David is talking to, I think he's the dean of engineering at Stanford. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 David Senra In my sophomore year at Stanford, I took a course in American history and had the opportunity to study the westward movement beginning with the early pioneers and continuing throughout the 19th century.
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 12:51 David Senra So it's like, uh, he's giving a talk at Stanford University, and he's asked a question like, what do you own? 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 6:14 David Senra This book stems from a course about startups that I taught at Stanford in 2012.
- ▶ 46:15 David Senra And they're like, Hey, uh, they're at like Stanford MBA students, if I remember correctly.
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 22:43 David Senra So, uh, Clark's bid for power and money began at Silicon Graphics, the company he founded with several of his Stanford graduate students.
- ▶ 44:36 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students who are interviewing 16 technology company founders, uh, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, all these people on there.
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 52:56 David Senra So why did I say at the very beginning, Steve jobs quote, because in his commencement address at Stanford,
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 5:48 David Senra He mentioned that himself, if you have ever gone back and listened to that commencement address that he gave at Stanford, I think back in 2005.
- ▶ 1:15:47 David Senra And so, interesting, a couple days ago when I got to this section for the first time, or I guess the second time because I've read the book twice now, I just pulled out just one paragraph from his amazing commencement speech at Stanford.