Boston, every mention
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The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 46:13 Mario Harik So I remember at the time, if, you know, a few years later, I came, I came to MIT in Boston to do my graduate studies in engineering, and I met programmers that were 50 times better, that were just had beautiful minds, how they thought…
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 31:17 Shane Parrish The company needed 2.7 million for a Philadelphia hotel, then another twelve million within two years for Dallas, Boston, and Atlanta.
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 27:09 Shane Parrish A Boston venture capitalist agreed to invest three million dollars.
- ▶ 55:48 Shane Parrish A Boston investor offered three million, but once to cut employee health insurance.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 18:11 Ron Shaich I started with a single cookie store in downtown Boston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:19 Ron Shaich It was great in Boston, New York, D.C., Chicago, but it didn't work in the malls in L.A., it didn't work in the malls in Missouri. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:46 Ron Shaich Boston and D.C. and now the New York market. 4 times in the scene
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:58 Shane Parrish Because in Boston, Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin had been working on something called VisiCalc, short for Visible Calculator, the world's first electronic spreadsheet, Excel's ancient ancestor.
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 51:24 Shane Parrish When they got to Boston, analysts whispered to Jim that Peter Lynch might drop by for five minutes.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 19:32 Shane Parrish The double bypass was scheduled at Mass General in Boston.
- ▶ 50:00 Shane Parrish They looked at Boston, but the real estate prices were astronomical.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 21:26 Shane Parrish Nova Scotia, the whole province, had fewer people than Boston.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 35:29 Shane Parrish His focus shifted from steamboats to the promising railroad, a safer and faster connection between New York and Boston, bypassing the notoriously rough seas at Point Judith.
- ▶ 36:51 Shane Parrish Vanderbilt faced renewed competition on his Boston to Maine steamboat route, responding with fierce public anti-monopoly rhetoric.
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 6:26 John Mackey I'd been inspired by Bread and Circus in Boston, and Mrs.
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 43:57 Brian Halligan And the reason is you see the Rolling Stones in Boston and New York and then Philly and then Miami. 3 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 1:00:52 Morgan Housel One, one other like, like weird oddball story that I've thought about here on the Amtrak train from Washington DC to Boston is where it goes.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 25:16 Shane Parrish Where did, so, so I'm guessing like after university, you followed Emily to Boston? 2 times in the scene
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 24:16 Christopher Davis And, and I would say that, you know, my mom was from an old Boston family and, and, uh, her mother was, uh, uh, Australian and, and there, there, there was a lot more formality there, you know, and my dad is structurally informal and…
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 29:22 Maria Konnikova Um, my mom and I were taking a walk, and I grew up in the Boston suburbs, and we were in the city, um, visiting and walking around, and we got a little bit lost, and I just so confidently said I knew where to go, and really thought I did,…
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 40:00 Dr. David Sinclair Um, I'm in winter now in Boston, which is my, my apartment's very cold, but
- ▶ 1:11:38 Dr. David Sinclair It's here in Boston.
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 22:25 Walter Isaacson You're seeing places like Austin, Texas, or Nashville, or New Orleans, Boston, of course, with the huge boom in biotech, but even in small places like Chattanooga or Cleveland, Mississippi, places with good colleges or universities where… 2 times in the scene
#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 42:59 Maria Konnikova Taking a walk, and I grew up in the Boston suburbs, and we were in the city, um, visiting, and walking around, and we got a little bit lost, and I just so confidently said I knew where to go, and really thought I did, and just got us…
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 56:59 Neil Pasricha She came down to Boston to try to live there.
#69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
- ▶ 15:33 Stephen Schwarzman Up in Boston, and I wasn't used to that level of cold, and it was wind that would come across the river, and it was freezing, and, you know, sort of lonely, and what was I doing?
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 27:26 Thomas Tull And we, we bought a boutique analytics company in Boston, uh, with this really sharp guy named Matt Moralda.
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 1:33 Shane Parrish This interview almost never happened, as my flight to Boston was canceled because of weather more times than I can count.
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 3:19 Margaret Heffernan And I thought, well, this is Boston, and, um, you know, about eight months of the year, it's winter, and everybody drives, and there aren't any pubs, 2 times in the scene
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 13:35 Gary Taubes You saw very little sign of it pre-eighteen 50, and even, for the most part, pre-eighteen seventies, and then the numbers in hospitals, and you could see this in hospital records, and in Boston, and Mass General, or in Philadelphia,…