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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]
- ▶ 1:43 Shane Parrish In 1948, an eighteen-year-old named Dick Stack took 300 dollars from his grandmother's cookie jar and opened a bait shop so small that it was addressed as four 53 and a half Court Street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Shane Parrish In July, 1948, Dick Stack stayed up all night working on a list. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Shane Parrish Dick would just be another casualty of American retail ambition. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:53 Shane Parrish Dick would fire fastballs at his son harder and harder, and then start throwing them in the dirt. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Shane Parrish Then Dick's doctor spotted him dragging his leg up the stairs. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Shane Parrish When Ed pointed this out to Bob Aiken, his father's longtime lieutenant, another man, might have bristled at the boss's kid making all these suggestions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Shane Parrish Dick spent more than half the year in Florida recovering from his surgery, but he still reminded everyone who was boss. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:49 Shane Parrish His father had made him work the store since he was 13, but never taught him the actual business. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:05 Shane Parrish Dick's stack spent most of the year in Florida recovering, but he still managed to lose his mind over the phone about every change Ed made. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:13 Shane Parrish Dick Stack would have hated this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:21 Shane Parrish They scheduled the IPO filing for July 17th, 2002, Dick Stack's birthday. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:33 Shane Parrish Dick Stack walked over and looked at the boys' worn clothes. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:35 Shane Parrish Dick Stack's grandmother pulled 300 dollars from her cookie jar after his boss crossed out his carefully crafted list. 6 times in the scene