David Neeleman
28 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 4, 2019 by David Neeleman · said 18 times in 12 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 negative
Feb 4, 2019 negative
Neeleman views employee unionization as a fundamental failure of corporate leadership
“You know, I always thought if our people need someone else to come tell us how to treat them, then that would be pretty tragic. If I thought I didn't treat our people well enough that they needed somebody else, then, you know, that's not the company I wanted t…”
Feb 4, 2019 neutral
Feb 4, 2019 positive
Neeleman: ADD gives me the ability to simplify complex problems
“My form of ADD has an, I have an ability to just look at a situation that's very complex and simplify it, and say, let's just do it this way, and it drives my teams crazy because they're like, no, it's not that simple. I'm saying, yes, it is. Just go do this, …”
Feb 4, 2019 negative
Neeleman: 1990s airlines lacked relational databases and real-time reservation data
“Airlines had these big mainframe computer systems they were using at the time, and everything was done on a flat file. So there was no relational databases. The actual, the database was actually the ticket. So if you lost your ticket, and, you know, it became …”
Feb 4, 2019
Neeleman: Morris Air Charters launched Hawaii packages for $399 on chartered DC-8s
“You'd spend, you know, basically seven days, six nights in Hawaii, and then fly direct, and the whole package was three 99, because we were buying the charter flight, and so we started this company called Morris Air Charters, and that was kind of the hallmark …”
Feb 4, 2019 negative
Neeleman: Class Mobility in Brazil Is Virtually Impossible
“In Brazil, it's virtually impossible to do that, and it made me very resentful, and you know, I really, in, in that, you know, I got tucked away in my mind that I would, I wanted to come back to Brazil, and I wanted to do something to help these people at some…”
Feb 4, 2019 positive
Neeleman: Provo Sales Companies Recruit Fearless Returned Missionaries
“Yeah, I mean, it's, there's a lot of companies that are in Provo, Utah, that do door-to-door sales of alarm systems, and pest control, and whatever, and, you know, they take all these guys that have come, and gals that have come home from missions, that are ki…”
Feb 4, 2019
Neeleman: Aircraft leasing enables low-capital airline bootstrapping via maintenance reserves
“You aren't buying the airplanes. You're just, you know, agreeing to pay them like a monthly rent payment on the airplanes with leasing. And then they take a certain amount per hour in reserves for maintenance. And then when the planes go in for maintenance, th…”
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Southwest CEO Herb Kelleher vowed to fiercely enforce Neeleman's non-compete agreement
“About halfway through the non-compete, I called, or a couple, maybe a year and a half into it, I called Herb, and I said, hey, Herb, you know, I've consulted, you know, legal counsel. This thing is not really enforceable. I mean, I didn't get any consideration…”
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 positive
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 13, 2020 positive
Founders with ADHD should delegate weaknesses and simplify complex problems
“And so, you have that, all that kind of negative stuff, which you can solve by just hiring good people that can fix all that, and then you have this ability just to hone in on things, and just to take really complicated things and just simplify them.”
Feb 13, 2020
Feb 13, 2020 positive
Neeleman credits his Brazil mission over college for building his confidence
“Be plucked from your life, and put into a completely different environment, and to be able to learn a foreign language, and to be able to kind of learn from a new land, and it just had a profound influence on me, and it changed my life in ways that, you know, …”
Feb 13, 2020
Apr 16, 2020 positive
Neeleman: 10,000 of Azul's 13,000 employees volunteered for unpaid leave
“You know, we have about 13,000 people that work for Azul, and, So we went out to the group and said, Hey, you know, everybody we're going to need your help here. Who would like to take a few months off without pay? And remarkably enough we had almost 10,000 of…”
Apr 16, 2020 negative
Apr 16, 2020 negative
Apr 30, 2026 bullish
Apr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026 positive