Boston, every mention
12 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to Boston
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Shane Parrish 13Ron Shaich 8Brian Halligan 3Walter Isaacson 2Maria Konnikova 2Margaret Heffernan 2Dr. David Sinclair 2Thomas Tull 1Stephen Schwarzman 1Neil Pasricha 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Boston comes up
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.
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.
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
#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.