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every year anyone Shane Parrish 24Jim Dethmer 4George Stalk Jr. 3Sendhil Mullainathan 2Robert Cialdini 2Keith Creel 2John Bragg 2Bethany McLean 2Shep Gordon 1Scott Page 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Chicago comes up
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
- ▶ 26:38 Shane Parrish In 1972, Nike made its debut at the National Sporting Goods Association show in Chicago.
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 2:12 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park, just west of Chicago in 19 oh two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:45 Shane Parrish On the drive back to Chicago, he announced he'd create his own version. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 Shane Parrish He was tired of their games, tired of the attorney's threats, tired of watching them visit Chicago and drive past his headquarters without even calling.
- ▶ 40:02 Shane Parrish So Lytton flew to Chicago to ask Kroc what he should do, and Kroc let him have it.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 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.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 12:38 Shane Parrish She traveled to Chicago and inspected the rail yards herself.
- ▶ 19:45 Shane Parrish At 22, she sent him to Chicago to manage her real estate empire. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 Shane Parrish She would lend millions if they would sell her certain Chicago railroad notes payable on demand.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 21:13 Shane Parrish Why not Chicago? 2 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 59:55 Benedict Evans The nearest theatre is in LA, you know, Chicago, I think, like, is there a theatre in LA?
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 11:13 Indra Nooyi I went to the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago.
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:34 Shane Parrish That night, they caught a train to Chicago, and within days, purchased a small rubber factory for 1500 dollars cash.
- ▶ 17:40 Shane Parrish The connection proved so valuable that even after becoming an industrial titan, Harvey continued seeking Wetmore's counsel whenever he was in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Shane Parrish I had sold many tires to the Woods Motor Vehicle Company in Chicago, which was one of the first companies to get out an electric carriage. 2 times in the scene
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 35:53 Shane Parrish Remember the story when she went to Chicago's Merchandise Mart, and they refused to sell to her because her competitors were telling the wholesalers not to sell to her, and she's like, one day, you'll come in my store, and I will refuse to…
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:03:33 Shane Parrish Cities like Chicago grew exponentially, increasing from 43,000 people in 1850 to 400,000 people by 1870, driven primarily by its role as a railway hub.
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:44 Shane Parrish I had in mind rather than fight the plagiarist in Chicago, as the board was keen on doing, he explained.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 53:16 John Bragg If you look at our map, we have fiber from Ireland to Bermuda to the, to the east coast, and then we have fiber going west through, through Chicago and Detroit, through Toronto and up north, and all the way to British Columbia, and a lot… 2 times in the scene
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 46:28 George Stalk Jr. An anomaly might be the anomaly in Wausau's case was, uh, Wausau had a fairly high share of its paper business in Chicago and with one particular merchant and that didn't compute. 3 times in the scene
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 50:16 Ravi Gupta But, like, my parents live in Chicago.
Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity
- ▶ 1:42:49 Jim Dethmer So like, um, I get used to, he's gone now, but the person right around the corner, I'm in downtown Chicago now, the person right around the corner cut my hair.
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 46:04 Jack Kornfield But anyway, and we, we did a series of retreats for kids coming out of street gangs in Los Angeles and Oakland and Chicago.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 21:41 Keith Creel So if it's coming into Vancouver, and it needs to go to Chicago, if it's coming into Vancouver, it needs to go to Montreal.
- ▶ 28:43 Shane Parrish So I'm thinking Los Angeles, Vancouver, going to Toronto, Chicago, um,
- ▶ 1:03:26 Keith Creel And I was disadvantaged in the U.S., and when I say I'm disadvantaged, that means my customers are disadvantaged too, because I didn't reach markets south of Kansas City or south of Chicago.
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- ▶ 52:49 Robert Cialdini It was a study done in Chicago with, uh, a restaurant owner named Gordon Sinclair. 2 times in the scene
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 15:14 Matt Ridley Chicago, who was a sort of node in a network of people thinking about flight, and he had been drawing on the ideas of a guy called Lawrence Hargrave in Australia, who had invented the, the box kite, which is basically the sort of principle…
#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
- ▶ 36:44 Sendhil Mullainathan I actually had this decision, um, when I moved to Chicago, all the interesting things are downtown. 2 times in the scene
#96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership
- ▶ 16:04 Randall Stutman Well, I happen to have a large energy organization that's long since been subsumed by even a bigger energy organization in Chicago.
#86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 1:22:34 Bethany McLean but I was more of a, um, I was less concerned about the environmental impact, partly because I, I live in Chicago, and I like to eat my house in the winter, and partly because, and I do think this is true, that those of us who live on the… 2 times in the scene
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 46:02 Shep Gordon And just like the reason Wolfgang worked for free at the Big Island, all the chefs were convinced that if they had an expensive restaurant, the only way to keep it full was to go reach out to Chicago, to Pittsburgh, to Hawaii, to all these…
#60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line
- ▶ 35:28 Jim Dethmer So I'm, you know, I'm living in Chicago.
- ▶ 58:46 Jim Dethmer So, you know, I'm in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 42:17 Scott Page So then you're going to say, oh, this is the best burrito in Chicago.
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 58:35 Celeste Headlee You know, it's quite interesting, because just late last year, Nicholas Epley in Chicago and his colleagues released this study in which
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 25:14 Adam Robinson I went to downtown Chicago on a train.
#6 Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future
- ▶ 19:51 Philip Tetlock Um, one of the famous examples of a Fermi problem was, you know, it sounds really weird, it was to estimate the number of piano tuners in Chicago.