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Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 30:21 Shane Parrish Dick Stack, who founded Dick's Sporting Goods, sold everything he had to pay his creditors back when the first company went bankrupt.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:38 Shane Parrish Now Dix had gotten over at Skis again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40 Shane Parrish Today, we're going to talk about the incredible story behind Dick's Sporting Goods. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Shane Parrish Dick's Sporting Goods started because a grandmother believed in her grandson. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Shane Parrish So when Dick opened his store at four 53 and a half Court Street, and yes, the address was so small they actually gave it a half number, he had exactly one thing going for him. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Shane Parrish Would determine whether Dick's Sporting Goods remained a two-store operation or became something neither of them could imagine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:47 Shane Parrish He made friends with Mark Munch and Bill Colombo, who'd both become crucial to Dick's Sporting Goods later.
- ▶ 16:28 Shane Parrish No, this business has put food on the table since you were a kid. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Shane Parrish The business is dying. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 Shane Parrish Dicks would match them, starting a price war. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:19 Shane Parrish People didn't just trust Dick's sporting goods. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Shane Parrish For three years, Ed had been calling Puma and Adidas, begging them to let Dick's carry their shoes. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Shane Parrish Jerry Harper, their Nike rep, walked into Dick's biggest rival and asked how back to school was going. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:57 Shane Parrish He took control of Dick's sporting goods.
- ▶ 38:41 Shane Parrish Dick's needed the same to survive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 Shane Parrish Each one a revelation to customers who'd never seen anything like Dick's Sporting Goods. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:43 Shane Parrish By 1991, added Bill Dix to 12 stores using Sam Walton's playbook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:24 Shane Parrish The money transformed Dick's overnight. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:07 Ed Stack Quotes By early 1997, we were a far healthier company than we'd been before the scare. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:29 Shane Parrish That that would destroy Dick's. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:53 Shane Parrish Dick's became one of Under Armour's first major retail partners. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:20 Shane Parrish There's a moment that captures everything Dick's Sporting Goods was meant to be. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:11 Shane Parrish I've seen that many times at Dix. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:26 Shane Parrish Okay, I want to get into some of the lessons I took away from this incredible story of Dick's Sporting Goods. 6 times in the scene