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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 44:06 Shane Parrish Her father had run a station on the Underground Railroad, hiding men and women fleeing north and helping them on towards Canada, and her mother gave herself over to the Temperance Cause, advocating for complete abstinence from alcohol.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 1:41:08 Shane Parrish I'm from Canada.
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 6:46 Shane Parrish He was learning how to grow a business at the feet of someone who'd done it on a world-class scale from a small town in a tiny Canadian province.
- ▶ 7:50 Shane Parrish The Americans processed them into frozen French fries, packaged them, and shipped them right back into Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:18 Shane Parrish The grants didn't create the entrepreneur, but they did let him do it in his small town, and because he stayed home, Florenceville got a plant, local farmers got year-round buyer, and thousands of people in a town the rest of Canada had…
- ▶ 14:10 Shane Parrish None of their employees had worked in a plant like this before because no plant like this had ever existed in Canada.
- ▶ 16:33 Shane Parrish He was in it to dominate, not just Canada, but the world.
- ▶ 19:05 Shane Parrish Five alive in Canada before Coca-Cola could.
- ▶ 20:29 Shane Parrish In an instant, every shipment from Canada became far more expensive for British buyers.
- ▶ 25:39 Shane Parrish By the early 19 eighties, McCain Foods was no longer a scrappy Canadian startup.
- ▶ 32:33 Shane Parrish He saw that Canada had no frozen fry producer and built one.
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 36:17 Shane Parrish How would you advise the United States or Canada to set one up, knowing what you know now?
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:09:08 Shane Parrish I will say if you're, you're going to go socialist, I much prefer the New York path of like, you go from capitalism to extreme socialism, because I feel like the system will reject that versus Canada, which is like a slow march into kind…
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 28:23 Shane Parrish I've seen reports, at least in Canada, that 30% of the price of a new home is basically government fees.
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 0:00 Shane Parrish This is a special episode of The Knowledge Project featuring our guest Pierre Polyev, leader of the Conservative Party in Canada.
- ▶ 5:55 Shane Parrish If we're Canada first, what's our responsibility to the rest of the world? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 Shane Parrish Speaking of amazing, it's really easy to get trapped in what's wrong with Canada, but what do you think's going right, and how can we build on that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Shane Parrish What do you see as the major factors facing Canada's lagging economic prospects? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:01 Shane Parrish What should Canada's strategy be concerning our relationship with the United States? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:01 Shane Parrish Extremely difficult choices that might cause them to not be reelected, but are in the best interest of Canada long-term. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Shane Parrish The government of Canada has provided over 3.4 billion in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants to support the operations of the Canadian media industry since 2017. 3 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 49:26 Shane Parrish And so, but they, not only do they deliver cable to a large portion of Canada, but they own a lot of infrastructure that people aren't aware of.
- ▶ 1:20:25 Shane Parrish We see the same thing in Canada with sort of our, our politics, right?
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 18:55 Shane Parrish The number of people speaking out in Canada on the election, because he started having an opinion, having a voice, and that, that sort of made it safe for other people to have an opinion, have a voice, and that might go counter to the norm.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 18:07 Shane Parrish Bee pollination in Canada is worth over two billion annually.
- ▶ 22:44 Shane Parrish When John Bragg started picking blueberries in the 19 fifties, Canada processed about forty million pounds annually. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:26 Shane Parrish The liberal government is in charge, and they've just swept to power in the country. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:38 Shane Parrish It would make Eastlink the fifth largest cable company in Canada, and it would give them virtually all of Nova Scotia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:33 Shane Parrish John Bragg has three companies on Canada's best managed list.
- ▶ 53:25 Shane Parrish Donald Sobey, who built one of Canada's greatest retail empires, called John Bragg one of the very best managers he's ever seen. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:14 Shane Parrish John Bragg is one of the legends of Canada in terms of building.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:41 Shane Parrish 80 years later, that newspaper still hangs in his office, not as a reminder of the war's end, but as proof the principle that would make him Canada's fourth richest person.
- ▶ 3:49 Shane Parrish And this is how one of Canada's richest people got their start.
- ▶ 19:10 Shane Parrish It could be anywhere in Canada except Vancouver, where his ailing father lived.
- ▶ 22:25 Shane Parrish He built one of Canada's largest fleets with over 4000 vehicles.
- ▶ 24:27 Shane Parrish Hotline show pioneering call-in radio in Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:49 Shane Parrish Credibility with Canada's financial establishment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Shane Parrish International for dreams bigger than Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Shane Parrish Patterson presented it to the finance minister, and in 1971, Canadian tax laws changed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:19 Shane Parrish He wasn't abandoning acquisitions entirely, just doing them differently, saying, wait, we've probably had more experience with it than anybody in Canada.
- ▶ 53:40 Shane Parrish Armed with his quality religion and freed from quarterly earnings calls, Pattison embarked on one of Canada's great acquisition sprees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:00 Shane Parrish Canada's second largest privately held company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:07 Shane Parrish Can you imagine driving across Western Canada, basically the Midwest, in your pickup truck at 90 with a pillow and a blanket in case you can't find a hotel, and being one of the richest people in the country? 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:22:28 Shane Parrish I don't know what it's like in the States, but in Canada, I was looking at the Senate the other day, and I was just trying to, like, is there anybody under, like, 60 in the Senate kind of thing?
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:15:40 Shane Parrish I, I think about this from the lens of Canada, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56:45 Shane Parrish And it's super important because there was a case, at least in Canada, where an AI agent for Air Canada.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 0:28 Shane Parrish This isn't just a Canadian problem, it's happening everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish Many Canadians know you from the headlines that often compare you to Trump to focus on conflicts, but your friends and family describe you as caring husband and father and someone deeply committed to serving Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 Shane Parrish Has becoming a parent changed what you think is important for the future of Canada?
- ▶ 14:56 Shane Parrish So how do we create economic value as a nation and then translate that into a better life for all Canadians? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:52 Shane Parrish I have a theory, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong on this, that Canada can't be on par with the US to invest. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:59 Shane Parrish Canada's economy creates less value per worker than America's, and the difference in the last 10 years has grown quite a bit, to a meaningful degree. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:27 Shane Parrish Many Canadian media outlets are partially government funded, not only via the Canadian Periodical Fund, but they get subsidies from, for journalist salaries, the government is a large advertiser, um, not to mention regulatory barriers that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:31 Shane Parrish Uh, what's going on with crime in Canada? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:23 Shane Parrish Healthcare in Canada is primarily a provincial responsibility, but the federal government provides crucial funding and guidance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:55 Shane Parrish And what safeguards would you put in place to ensure equal access for Canadians regardless of income? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:06 Shane Parrish Um, but Canadians have been brought up not to talk about our success too, which is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:23 Shane Parrish Um, many Canadians believe in government action on climate change, and I want to ask a nuanced question on this. 6 times in the scene
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 50:37 Shane Parrish In Canada, she turned consignment into conquest.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 1:32:14 Shane Parrish You could argue that that didn't just benefit the United States, it benefited Canada, Europe, it benefited a lot of- Mexico, our allies, for sure.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish We're starting our new series, Lessons from Outliers, with Timothy Eaton, a Canadian name that might not be familiar to many listeners today, but his innovations fundamentally changed retail around the world and how we shop.
- ▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Shane Parrish Ireland's poverty story creating waves of ambitious emigrants, Canadian railways connecting previously isolated markets, and an outdated credit-based trading system ready to be disrupted.
- ▶ 19:00 Shane Parrish Timothy had built a portal to the modern world for millions of isolated rural Canadians. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Shane Parrish When a town founded by Canadian Northern Railway in 1917 named itself Eaton, later changed to Etonia, it wasn't just flattery, it was recognition that Eaton's had become woven into the very fabric of Canadian life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:59 Shane Parrish How Canadian? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:22 Shane Parrish The giant that once owned 60% of Canadian retail had shriveled to less than 10%. 2 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:48:42 Shane Parrish I want you to imagine for, you're in charge of, let's say Canada, the US, and maybe the UK, and I tell you that we are optimizing to be the best in the world at AI.
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:25:41 Shane Parrish Like I live in Canada.
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 13:20 Shane Parrish And I was like, no, all Canadians sound like this.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 1:25:12 Shane Parrish Are there any policy changes you would make to encourage more entrepreneurship and business in Canada? 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 11:22 Shane Parrish I mean, for all of the knocks on Canada's healthcare system, uh, there's certain things in triage that they 2 times in the scene
Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- ▶ 11:28 Shane Parrish We can do it with something still larger like American or Canadian or European.
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 22:20 Shane Parrish Maybe the last 3040 years where that's become the vast majority of wealth for Americans and Canadians.
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 29:27 Shane Parrish Is this mostly like a Canada-US problem, or is this like a worldwide Western... 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:43 Shane Parrish And when they get tested, they come back with like, I think in Canada, we call them IEPs, individual education plans.
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:17:10 Shane Parrish Uh, from somebody who, me, violated the law on a regular basis during this in Canada, because I, uh, had a bubble of people that was more than two households, and, you know, we had a teacher involved, and we had all these other things…
- ▶ 1:46:07 Shane Parrish I, I know people even now in Canada with mortgages, and they're just like, oh, the government's gonna step in and intervene because nobody can afford their houses, and I, I feel like that's a very dangerous path to sort of think and walk,…
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 1:51 Shane Parrish This interview took place at our studio in Ottawa, Canada.
Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity
- ▶ 56:40 Shane Parrish Cause I was stating my, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I guess, stereotypically Canadian, right? 2 times in the scene
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 8:21 Shane Parrish Not only freight trains, but like, why in Canada and the US don't we have high-speed rail, and why aren't the freight trains moving faster? 2 times in the scene
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 15:20 Shane Parrish Talk to me about some of the advantages to being in Victoria, Canada.
#120 Chris Bosh: Hunger and Greatness
- ▶ 25:38 Shane Parrish I have to ask as a Canadian. 4 times in the scene
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 1:59 Shane Parrish He's the former dean and institute director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 7:23 Shane Parrish Or Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:46 Shane Parrish Is that what was happening with the other teams like the Canadians and the Koreans and the, was it just a better strategy?
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 26:49 Shane Parrish This is Canada, and we had like American media trucks. 3 times in the scene
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 15:53 Shane Parrish Right, so there's a Canadian connection here, which is also, you got him played on the Canadian station. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Shane Parrish One of the ways that you've helped people become famous, you're not a one-trick pony by any stretch of the imagination, because one of your other early clients was Anne Murray, the Canadian folk singer, who didn't, you know, throw chickens…
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 2:13 Shane Parrish Isn't this a remarkable world we live in where, you know, I can be in Ottawa, Canada in the middle of a snowstorm right now, and you're halfway across the world, literally, and on a boat, and we, we have this connection.
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 20:42 Shane Parrish Go Canada. 2 times in the scene
#49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining
- ▶ 32:57 Shane Parrish Did you come back to Canada or were you still in Detroit at that time? 3 times in the scene
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 1:04:39 Shane Parrish Is it, uh, I come from Canada, so we have more socialized sort of healthcare system where, uh, the costs are rising, obviously, and these questions come up occasionally, which is like, what is that sort of duty of care to the patient if…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 0:47 Shane Parrish Toby's based in Ottawa, Canada, and while we had a lot of mutual friends, we had never met in person before recording this interview.
- ▶ 17:34 Shane Parrish As you mentioned earlier, I mean, we're sitting in Ottawa, so one of the questions I've always had for you is kind of like, how is it that one of the top tech companies in the world is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, of all places?
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 0:41 Shane Parrish Bit of a brief heads up, this interview is recorded live in Montreal, Canada.
#12 Véronique Rivest: Wine Lessons
- ▶ 45:10 Shane Parrish So for us, it's different in Canada.