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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 36:21 David Senra And so there's this great quote from Walt Disney I love, where it says, if we lose the details, we lose everything.
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 31:14 David Senra And the fact that, you know, decades after Disney had died, decades after these movies had been made, when somebody invented the VHS tape, and then again with the DVD, and then again with the streaming services after that.
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 25:53 David Senra The way I think about Honda, when I got to the section, it's like, if you study Walt Disney, Walt Disney wanted to spend all his money building the best products possible. 4 times in the scene
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 47:26 David Senra Very similar kind of echoes with these fights that Walt Disney would have with his brother. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 40:27 David Senra There is a great quote from Walt Disney himself that says, if we lose the details, we lose it all.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:06:22 David Senra And so, of course, I had to pull out a couple things because I love, Steve always, is always quoting and talking about what he learned from Walt Disney, which I think is amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:13 David Senra Walt Disney himself recruited this guy to run Disney Universally and told me about his point of view.
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
- ▶ 11:15 David Senra It's one of my favorite things Walt Disney ever said. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 David Senra He's like completely obsessed with what he's doing, just the way Jiro is just the way Bernard Arnola is just the way Walt Disney was.
The Outsiders Who Changed F1 Forever
- ▶ 31:24 David Senra Walt Disney, his, one of his heroes was Charlie Chapman. 3 times in the scene
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 50:41 David Senra Remember what Walt Disney, the advice that he gave to you and I? 2 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 57:37 David Senra So two examples of this that popped to mind is Buffett knew Bob Noyce, founder of Intel and met Walt Disney and knew without a doubt how talented these people were. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:01 David Senra Talks about Walt Disney.
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 38:09 David Senra This part actually reminded me of Walt Disney. 6 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 1:10:38 David Senra It is another sign of his interest in every single aspect and every level of his company, which leads us to idea number 15, which is a quote from Walt Disney.
- ▶ 1:10:48 David Senra Walt Disney said, if we lose the detail, we lose it all. 3 times in the scene
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 4:26 David Senra That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel.
- ▶ 29:38 David Senra If you go back and read, uh, Jeff's biographies, uh, it says this over and over again when he was a young kid, like his heroes were Thomas Edison and Walt Disney, but he thought of them as inventors.
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 36:05 David Senra So that idea of micromanaging, of paying attention to every last detail, you know, this is no different from Steve Jobs, from Walt Disney, Bernardo and all, you see this over and over again.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 33:57 David Senra It's very similar to what Walt Disney said, that if we lose the details, we lose everything.
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 9:33 David Senra This reminds me of Walt Disney. 6 times in the scene
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 28:41 David Senra You know, there's a great line where it says, Walt Disney seldom dabbled. 2 times in the scene
The Nobel Family Dynasty
- ▶ 27:43 David Senra This goes back to he's much more of like a micromanager involved in every single detail, like a more like a Steve Jobs and a Walt Disney than his brother Alfred Nobel, which I'll get to.
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:29:05 David Senra And even if you didn't know about this tool, you've heard me use it over and over again, because every time you listen to the podcast and when I'm referencing past ideas from past episodes from past books, like Jeff Bezos, like Walt…
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 5:16 David Senra Walt Disney.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 35:31 David Senra It reminded me of the quote that Walt Disney said when he was building Disneyland. 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 45:23 David Senra Of Disneyland with Walt Disney. 6 times in the scene
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
- ▶ 22:40 David Senra We just saw this recently in the two part series on Walt Disney. 2 times in the scene
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 42:29 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 20:03 David Senra And then I'm really glad that I reread this book after I just read the book on how Walt Disney built Disneyland, because I didn't understand the first time through without that additional context that there's another benefit when it comes… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra One day in the early 19 fifties, Walt Disney stood looking out over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagine building a park where people could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 David Senra So originally, uh, if, in case you missed last week, I just, I spent an insane amount of time reading eight, this 800 page biography of Walt Disney. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 David Senra And then I'm going to go into, like, the prehistory of Disney, where he got the, the ideas. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 David Senra Not only did he create a phenomenal product, one that is constantly, he says, uh, he has a line where it says improvement is my mantra. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 David Senra But his daughter is describing what's taking place in her, her dad's life right before he goes into this, because the idea for Disneyland may come to life for other people to experience in, you know, 1955, but you can trace it back to the… 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 David Senra This is so important to understand Disney's approach to his entire life, really, but also for, in particular, to Disneyland. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 David Senra It was to power a railway system, and Disney needed a place to run it. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:52 David Senra He's touring all these places and he just cannot get over how bad they are. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 David Senra This is how Walt Disney described Disneyland a few years before it was built. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:08 David Senra As soon as word got out that Disney might be buying, building his amusement park there, all these other realtors and real estate investors would go out and buy up the property. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:42 David Senra And so Walt knows that he has to get his brother and his partner, Roy, his brother, Roy Disney involved. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:13 David Senra So really, I want to talk to you about how Walt Disney makes his pitch deck. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 David Senra And television is literally going to save Disney. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 David Senra And so now in addition to building the park, he's got to build out all this content for TV. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:46 David Senra One thing I think Walt Disney would agree with, it says in multiple books that he's just not a snob. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 David Senra And Walt did not have a public facing TV show before this. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:44 David Senra And it is amazing to me how many people that were really important in building Disney, uh, Disneyland were actually, they, they developed skills during the war, during World War II, that they were directly transferable to the work they'd… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:15 David Senra But even though they knew that it wasn't gonna be all the way complete, Disney would not relax his standards of excellence and particularly his obsession with detail. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:02 David Senra And so there's a bunch of people around Walt trying to get him to push back to like not adhere to the deadline. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:37 David Senra And really the main point behind all this is you said, Disney was well aware of the shortcomings. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:43 David Senra And then there was a fascinating contrast I still think takes place today where the media, the actual newspaper writers and everybody else, they're like, Walt's dream is a nightmare. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:34 David Senra What becomes obvious is that this idea in many ways was pulled out of Walt Disney.
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Walt Disney was the first to bundle television programs, feature animation, live action films, documentaries, theme parks, music, books, comics, character merchandise, and educational films under one corporate umbrella. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is this giant comprehensive, 800 page biography of Walt Disney. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 David Senra And so when I pick up the story of Walt Disney, he's nine years old. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 David Senra And that leads directly into another main theme of this book and to how Walt Disney created himself. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 David Senra He has to design his own curriculum. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:23 David Senra And so there's one event outside of Walt Disney's control that is going to delay his getting a job as a cartoonist, and that is World War I. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:58 David Senra And so now we have a very young Walt Disney. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:26 David Senra And so then this is the first time that we're going to see something that Walt Disney does his entire career. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 David Senra And so before his company's doing like these, this, these freelance jobs, these advertisers, but his first product is going to be selling one minute animated shorts and he sells them to movie theaters, right? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:49 David Senra Mickey Mouse exists because Charles Mintz steals Disney's company from him. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:26 David Senra And Disney believed that it was perfectly logical that, you know, you're watching other things. 28 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:58 David Senra And so this is when we get into Disney building his cult. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:27 David Senra This is a business model innovation that Disney came up with. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 David Senra So I want to go into a few ways that Disney built his cult. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:23 David Senra Walt told us this idea of developing the story Snow White, and honestly, the way that boy can tell a story is nobody's business. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:15 David Senra So now the brothers, Roy and Walt, were able to chip in and buy their parents a house and relocate them closer to them in Los Angeles. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:09 David Senra And what was fascinating is one of Walt Disney's heroes was for Henry Ford and Walt Disney shortly before Henry Ford dies. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:25 David Senra So knowing Disney, like we know up until this point, you know what his next move is. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:19 David Senra And so this love and obsession that Disney had for his entire career that had been absent for maybe half of a decade, maybe longer, is now restored. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:22 David Senra And what was remarkable, one of the most remarkable things that jumped out to me, is this idea of, like, all these other entrepreneurs that are mentioned in the episode, in addition to Walt Disney, all share this same trait. 6 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 19:06 David Senra Spielberg and Lucas studied Walt Disney. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:24 David Senra And it's really weird that they didn't understand at this point how important merchandise rights were, because if you remember, I've done a bunch of episodes on Walt Disney before.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:10 David Senra Then you have, uh, Mark Twain, uh, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Walt Disney, uh, the dynasty book, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Families I did a few months ago.
The Life Story of Jesus
- ▶ 3:08 David Senra I've read and made podcasts on a bunch of biographies that he's written, uh, like on Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Mozart, Picasso, Disney.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 6:55 David Senra It is like a 15, I think it has 15 chapters on some of history's greatest creators, so people like Picasso, Walt Disney, Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Shakespeare, Mark Twain.
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 3:51 David Senra This would be Walt Disney and Albert Einstein.
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 3:27 David Senra So if you haven't listened to the Walt Disney Picasso episode, that is episode three 10. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 24:20 David Senra And so there is a line from last week's book, last week's podcast on Walt Disney and Picasso, I absolutely love.
- ▶ 50:46 David Senra This kind of reminded me, one of my favorite lines in that, uh, when I was reading that chapter on Walt Disney and Picasso last week was that Walt Disney put excellence before any other consideration. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:02 David Senra He is not motivated, motivated primarily by money, very much like Walt Disney. 2 times in the scene
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 1:06 David Senra Among this group, none were more successful than Pablo Picasso and Walt Disney. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36 David Senra Eliot, Dickens, but what I want to focus on today is Paul's essay comparing Pablo Picasso and Walt Disney, and so just to give you a sneak peek, I'm working on what's going to wind up being an extremely comprehensive episode on Walt Disney, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 David Senra He's, Paul, rightfully so, uh, in, based on his descriptions and what he shows to highlight, he has a strong dislike for Picasso and a strong admiration for Walt Disney.
- ▶ 20:43 David Senra And then he does this exact same thing for Walt, and they start to compare and contrast. 29 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 David Senra So he uses speed and he also something that Disney does his entire career. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:54 David Senra And so if you study the very early parts of Walt Disney's career, and as you know, he starts out with not any money, not resources. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:40 David Senra During World War II, Disney had brooded on the possibility of creating these worlds, meaning his animated worlds, not in the studio, but in real life. 18 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:05:07 David Senra And so of course I had to pull out a couple of things cause I love Steve always is always quoting and talking about what he learned from Walt Disney, which I think is amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:07 David Senra Walt Disney himself recruited this guy to run Disney Universally and told me about his point of view.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 1:25:39 David Senra And part of the problem with Freedomland is one, this guy's no Walt Disney, as we're about to see, but you're also jumping on a trend. 4 times in the scene
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 17:54 David Senra Like, Phil Knight and Walt Disney, and then getting an offer from the Mafia, which is hilarious.
The Making of McDonald's: The Biography of Ray Kroc
- ▶ 7:08 David Senra In my company was another fellow who had lied about his age to get in. 3 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 27:35 David Senra Uh, opportunity with Y Combinator was very similar to Walt Disney's, uh, opportunity with amusement parks, where Disney's like, the reason I have an opportunity to do something really great is because the standard way of doing things left… 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 32:13 David Senra This happened in the life of Walt Disney, in between the problems with his animation studio and him finding a new outlet for, uh, his creative output, which is, winds up being Disneyland and his obsession with amusement parks.