Tony Wheeler
16 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 8, 2017 by Tony Wheeler · across every show →
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A Singapore bookshop bought 1,000 copies of Lonely Planet's second guide
“I saw him writing Southeast Asia on a shoestring in the, on the order form, and then write some number down. And he spun the order around and pushed it across the desk to me, and he bought a thousand copies. You know, I walked out of that that office you know,…”
Jul 9, 2018
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Jul 9, 2018 positive
Jul 9, 2018
Tony Wheeler: Lonely Planet was named after a misheard Joe Cocker lyric
“That movie and that, that album is Joe Cocker singing a song called Space Captain, and the first line of the song goes, once while traveling across the sky, this lonely planet caught my eye. And I said to Maureen, I was humming the song, hey, that sounds nice,…”
Jul 9, 2018 positive
Wheeler: Lonely Planet grew through slow compounding momentum, not instant hypergrowth
“It wasn't like your .com or, you know, social media set up these days. They start on one day, and a week later they're worth a billion dollars. That wasn't us at all. We, our business grew very slowly, and I think it was more like the snowball rolling downhill…”
Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 neutral
Tony Wheeler: Lonely Planet Originated from Daily Travel Cost and Mileage Logs
“Oh, just where we stayed, and what it cost, and how many miles the car had covered that day, and, you know, now I think about the palaces, and the walls, and the fortresses, you know, those things are just as important, but in those days it was very much the i…”