Boston, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Boston comes up
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.