America
part of Americas
28 statements across 26 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 24 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2017 by Steve Case · across every show →
Everything said about America, oldest first
Apr 3, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 negative
Jul 2, 2018 positive
Dec 30, 2019 bullish
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 bullish
Sep 7, 2020 bearish
Sep 14, 2020 negative
Awotona: Being an immigrant's child hindered navigating the corporate world early
“I think being the child of immigrants, I think maybe hurt my understanding of how to be successful in the business world in America. And so I didn't do some of the things that my peers were doing, like internships, I didn't do those things.”
Nov 16, 2020
Jan 25, 2021 positive
Feb 25, 2021 negative
Jun 7, 2021 positive
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Calagione: 1990s American beer market was dominated by generic light lagers
“There's all these super cool, very unique, very vibrant different beers around the world, but you can't really find them in America, and America's dominated by these samey, you know, monolithic, generic, frankly, in my view, light lagers made by giant companie…”
Dec 26, 2022
Copeland acquired foreign-language acts cheaply because the American market undervalued them
“World music was not considered a big music. You know, acts that sang in foreign language were not doing well in America. So you could pick up a lot of these acts for very little money. So a lot of the acts that I would sign later on in life were acts that were…”
Apr 6, 2023 neutral
May 4, 2023 positive
May 29, 2023 positive
Dec 14, 2023
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Jan 25, 2024 bullish
Mar 4, 2024 neutral
Sourcing whiskey to scale an American brand is structurally harder than Scotch
“In Scotland, the distilleries produce enough for themselves, but they also produce enough for a ton of others to be able to purchase from them. It's a part of their overall business model. That's not our business model in America. There's basically not enough …”
Aug 4, 2025
Jan 12, 2026 negative
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 1, 2026