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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 3:16 unnamed speaker I'm gonna get a speaking gig in China. 2 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 14:13 Bill Gurley Pulls up the bar against, especially against the Chinese open source models. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Bill Gurley Having spent a ton of time in China over the past 20 years, it's hard for me to adopt this mindset of vilification that's heavy amongst many in Washington and now many in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 36:09 Bill Gurley And once again, these other countries, which include UK, Australia, India, China, Argentina, they've all done this, but we never did it.
- ▶ 38:36 Bill Gurley In China, because they had this digital immediate transfer, um, Alibaba and Tencent were able to very quickly build digital wallets that people carry around, and so if you walk around China, 2 times in the scene
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 15:40 Nicolai Tangen We didn't, we didn't think about like tariffs and relationship between the U S Europe, you know, what's going on now in the U S in Europe, in India, in China, we have no clue.
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 44:51 Michael Ovitz Uh, yeah, China may have robots that are great, but we got people that are unbelievably smart, and our system just works really well.
- ▶ 1:24:17 Michael Ovitz I met with the Premier of China.
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 23:49 Pierre Poilievre And we can ensure that our continent is secure from Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and Iranian threat by doing our part in the Arctic.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 44:13 Jim Murphy Someone has an idea in China, and we can see it right away in America.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 1:20:28 Anthony Scilipoti In fact, I, I did a trip to China, uh, life-changing practically earlier this year. 2 times in the scene
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 6:53 Lulu Cheng Meservey Or the people who are really passionate about robotics, or the people who are really worried about conflict with China. 2 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 27:40 Benedict Evans Will China catch up to a true answer?
- ▶ 1:11:17 Benedict Evans What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone, and Tesla is just selling, and in that metaphor, Tesla is just another Android phone maker, and they're competing with the whole Chinese industrial policy.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 22:21 Shane Parrish Oxford now dominates Japan's frozen wild blueberry market, and then he went to Korea, and now he's working on China.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 5:03 Ryan Petersen We were like buying motorcycles in China and selling them on the internet in the U.S. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Shane Parrish So if we think of the beats between being in China and ending up in Silicon Valley, what are they? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Ryan Petersen Some guy bought like a bouncy house for his kid's birthday party in China because he was too cheap to buy one locally, like stuff like that.
- ▶ 35:14 Ryan Petersen You could ship a container from China to the U.S. for, our cost was like 600 dollars.
- ▶ 36:48 Ryan Petersen And we actually got a ton of demand to ship masks to China for the doctors in China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:53 Ryan Petersen Won't charge us 200,000 dollars to fly a Dreamliner to China and back.
- ▶ 1:06:24 Ryan Petersen Um, and he, in his current administration, he said that in the Trump one, first term, that the tariffs on China paid for one third of the tax cuts that Trump did.
- ▶ 1:10:45 Ryan Petersen So when tariffs were at one 45 on China, we helped a lot of companies move into bonded warehouses because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ryan Petersen You can just, or Canada, or most of Western Europe, so you can just, they set up this shell company in whatever country, it could be China, it could be anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:47 Ryan Petersen If you bought it, like there was a middleman or an agent that bought it in China and marked it up to you, you can actually import the goods at the price they paid, not the price you paid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:44 Ryan Petersen And when I lived in China, I got a copy of that book. 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 57:45 Bret Taylor And I think you're seeing it play out, as you said, in, in really different ways in Canada, United States, Europe, China, elsewhere.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 45:18 Shane Parrish It seems from the outside looking in a lot of what he's trying to do is slow the rise of China. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:45 Pierre Poilievre China, it's 14 tons of carbon for every ton of aluminum. 2 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 29:53 Bruce Flatt Some of it needs to be next to customer, um, because they get caught during COVID that all of a sudden all my manufacturing's in China. 3 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 4:06 Josh Wolfe Uh, everything from US-China competition to, uh, Iran-Israel, access of religious conflict, the Sahel and Maghreb in Africa, which is not an area that a lot of people talk about or think about, that I believe with low probability, super…
- ▶ 10:25 Josh Wolfe I think Micron is a US company which is going to be more constrained by restrictions that are put on export control, and I think SK being a Korean company is going to be able to skirt those in the same way that NVIDIA has with, you know,…
- ▶ 23:15 Josh Wolfe Then you have sovereign models, so there are countries that are saying we don't want to be beholden to the US or to China.
- ▶ 34:00 Josh Wolfe I mean, we still have very cheap labor in Foxconn factories in China and Vietnam and elsewhere now doing that, but there's no reason for that over time.
- ▶ 1:30:21 Josh Wolfe And Russia, and who thought that we were gonna see a land war, you know, in the 21st century, where Russia would invade Ukraine, and, uh, China, and Taiwan, and North Korea, and the African continent, as we talked about, and the Sahel and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:20 Josh Wolfe China has the fifty-cent army. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:19 Josh Wolfe Which I'll give you first, which is I would really put priority on Africa as a continent, and particularly that's Sahel and Maghreb, because I do believe between violent extremists, Russian mercenaries, China infrastructure, you are one… 5 times in the scene
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 1:08:53 Christopher Davis Uh, but it is, it is so important in, and that we could be will, well, one of the risks of that is if, you know, if, if China ends up with fewer dollars, uh, then we have fewer buyers, uh, for the debt that we're issuing.
- ▶ 1:14:49 Christopher Davis It's one of the things that we should all, I mean, this jingoism and this anti China sort of mindset is so dangerous because we stopped learning. 2 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:10:19 Tom Gaynor January, 2020 was when things were just starting to unfold, and you saw this news of things that were happening in China, but not Richmond, Virginia.
Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 51:21 Ravi Gupta And I think that even the words on the back of the iPhone, where it says, you know, designed in California, assembled in China, like it doesn't say made in China. 2 times in the scene
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 28:58 Todd Herman And there's a great story from the former CEO of Levi's, where when they were going into China, he was very concerned that it wasn't going to be successful.
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 3:56 Rey Flemings And so, uh, I think the task was we had 72 hours to get, I can't remember the exact math, but a couple of thousand ventilators, whatever the math worked out to be, and get them into Manhattan, um, and to get them out of China. 4 times in the scene
Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living
- ▶ 1:08:39 Kevin Kelly And I would expect it to see these first in China and maybe Russia because they have a total vacuum of this. 4 times in the scene
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 22:58 Ravi Gupta And I think that even the words on the back of the iPhone, where it says, you know, designed in California, assembled in China, like it doesn't say made in China.
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 21:10 Nathan Myhrvold Yeah, we did fix that, and China will fix it too, because eventually the people living in Beijing will say, hey, this is screwed up.
- ▶ 22:22 Nathan Myhrvold But as a result, the percentage of renewables, even if we grow renewables really fast, it's hard to grow it fast enough that it makes up for all the coal plants that are being built in China and India and other places whose economy is…
- ▶ 40:53 Nathan Myhrvold Like, we didn't panic in the pandemic when we first heard, oh, there's people getting sick in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:21 Nathan Myhrvold We were going to build our first one in China, and there were lots of people in the U.S. that said, how dare you build it in China? 3 times in the scene
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 1:13:27 Aaron Dignan Like, you know, the example of like the transformation at hire in, in China, um,
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 1:31:17 Jack Kornfield Past lives and being in monasteries in China, you know, working in the kitchen or something, no, nothing particularly noble or great.
Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 53:43 Reid Hoffman And it's Silicon Valley in China.
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 37:35 Reid Hoffman And it's Silicon Valley in China.
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:28:53 Barbara Tversky Now I have to go to the automatic cash registers and find the barcode and scan it, and I can do that now in any country except China because I can't pay.
- ▶ 1:39:06 Barbara Tversky Or thought years ago, probably think again now, that North Korea is more similar to the PRC than the PRC to North Korea.
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 25:46 Kunal Shah Alibaba chose to not charge the merchants to sell, but they made money on advertising and fintech, which are skin in the game businesses, but do not charge you rent per se, because it was easier to disrupt eBay and Amazon in China by…
- ▶ 33:51 Kunal Shah It's not, because our per capita income is never going to beat and grow like China, because before China started becoming affluent, 96% of Chinese urban women were working because of the one child policy, which forced it to become a gender… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:38 Kunal Shah But nothing between India and China is common except our population. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:45 Kunal Shah China. 2 times in the scene
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 4:07 Luke Burgess There was a lot of very, ah, exciting things going on in China at the time. 2 times in the scene
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 1:30:26 Dr. David Sinclair And China increasingly worried about replacing their population.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 0:29 Balaji Srinivasan China is dangerously competent, and the US state is dangerously incompetent, and India is in the middle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Balaji Srinivasan Inflation, Afghanistan, China and Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:24 Balaji Srinivasan And then abroad, they've fought simultaneous battles with Russia, with China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:06 Balaji Srinivasan China's actually set up an explicit system, the great firewall, you know, they have an explicit thing where it's like bans on social media. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:51 Balaji Srinivasan When did China censor the internet and build a great firewall early? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:22 Balaji Srinivasan China unproductive. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:33 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, Vietnam, all these other countries have kind of gone into the China model cause it's worked.
- ▶ 1:34:07 Balaji Srinivasan As I mentioned, they've taken on, uh, the right, the central left, tech, you know, Russia, China, some extent, India, Israel, and, you know, like a bunch of other smaller countries, like I've seen Iran and, you know, Hungary, and they're…
- ▶ 1:40:56 Balaji Srinivasan Um, and I see this with discussion around, you know, China in the 2010 and now India.
- ▶ 1:59:29 Balaji Srinivasan In China, actually, Xi Jinping has talked about how he did not want houses to be used for investment.
- ▶ 2:15:26 Balaji Srinivasan You know, what that meant was a lot of countries were like, you know, China actually had 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20:16 Balaji Srinivasan One, China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27:29 Balaji Srinivasan With China, um, you know, I think China plays the world's best home game and India arguably plays the world's best away game. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39:15 Balaji Srinivasan China is dangerously competent, and the US state is dangerously incompetent, and India's in the middle. 3 times in the scene
#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 22:13 Noreena Hertz And this is even going on in China, fascinatingly, where you're seeing, um, a lag, but you're also seeing this trend.
- ▶ 58:45 Nir Eyal I had to have it imported from, uh, from, uh, China because they don't really make it with the States.
#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
- ▶ 59:57 Douglas Rushkoff Is it really genuinely long-term cost-effective to have slaves in China making all our stuff? 2 times in the scene
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- ▶ 31:38 Robert Cialdini There was a study done in Beijing, China that, that, that I love.
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 37:33 Jeff Immelt My hunch is you could go through product after product and making it in Canada or the U S is probably just about the same as making it in Mexico or China today. 2 times in the scene
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 13:27 Noreena Hertz So there were studies done with pop song lyrics, which show that in general, in the west, pop song lyrics from the 19 eighties to today have become increasingly individualistic with words like we, us, and I are supplanted by words like I,…
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 45:47 Shane Parrish I mean, for the last 50 years it's been, say, Silicon Valley in California, and that seems to be coming to an end right now, and before that it was Victorian Britain, and then, you know, before that it was Renaissance Italy, um, and at… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 Matt Ridley Of course, we have a similar experience with Chinese attitude to intellectual property more recently.
#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming
- ▶ 44:26 Jane McGonigal They feel like it could be more real, and then the next time, and the next time, and the brain starts to actually finally get it, and I'll tell you, I've been doing pandemic forecasts for, you know, two of my biggest games, one in 2008,…
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 30:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, let's think about, uh, China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:01 Chamath Palihapitiya We've outsourced everything to China.
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 13:23 Matthew Holland I remember having a departure interview with a Hyatt manager who sat me down and said, you're gonna go sell to China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Matthew Holland I mean, you look at China and Russia, they're remarkably aggressive with a lot of, I don't want to say disregard to their own intellectual property and what they're using, but they're certainly not quiet about what they're doing.
- ▶ 1:06:08 Matthew Holland Yeah, so, you know, there's, there's documented ties to the Chinese federal government with that company existing.
#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 13:33 Maria Konnikova And sure, you can lose money in the short term, so variance, you know, in the short term, the worst player can win, um, but in the long term, the more skilled player is going to win, and so you actually don't, you can't blame poor…
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 18:01 Bill Ackman You know, there are people that I talk to, that I talk to for perspective on things like the economy and business, just people, you know, business leader type people that I respect and compare notes with, you know, what's really going on…
- ▶ 52:20 Bill Ackman The second thing is, you know, our view was, if you looked at what was going on in China, there is a straightforward solution to how to deal with, you know, a pandemic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:30 Bill Ackman You know, getting back to my Herbalife example before, we went public and said, among other things about Herbalife, that they were operating in China illegally, because China does not allow multi-level marketing companies to operate, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:44 Bill Ackman So you look at how China, you know, the negatives of China is they, you know, the, the government officials, the local government officials were too afraid to go public with what was going on. 4 times in the scene
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 7:07 Balaji Srinivasan China or, or various other kinds of things.
- ▶ 9:46 Balaji Srinivasan So evidently there's some coronaviruses that were in bats, or at least labeled as such on, on GenBank, where they appear to be viruses that were resident in bats from Yunnan province in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 Balaji Srinivasan But, you know, in China, folks are asking drivers to record their temperature, and so on, so, Oura rings, or things like that.
- ▶ 30:18 Balaji Srinivasan A pandemic defense system, you know, the kind of thing the Chinese will build, I call this the, you know, the third grade wall, and then somebody actually used that term in China as well, like, you know, a few weeks later. 7 times in the scene
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