Ed Stack, every mention

Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers] Sep 23, 2025 · 235 mentions

• ▶ 0:03 Shane Parrish Ed Stack stared at his CFO who just uttered those words. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:55 Shane Parrish His son, Ed, would later build it into an over 800 store empire worth over sixteen billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 8:45 Shane Parrish He was 27 years old, married, with a one-year-old son named Ed. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:44 Shane Parrish She'd calm his volcanic temper, help him think clearly, and more importantly, she'd help him see that his oldest son, Ed, might be the key to everything. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:31 Shane Parrish Ed Stack hated everything about the store. 18 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:01 Shane Parrish Halfway through freshman year, Ed had his whole future mapped out. 22 times in the scene
• ▶ 19:40 Shane Parrish Ed came home for winter break with the operation looming. 18 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:03 Shane Parrish Something shifted in twenty-two-year-old Ed Stack when he stood behind the counter in 1977 after taking over. 14 times in the scene
• ▶ 25:20 Shane Parrish When sixteen-year-old Jay Minninger applied for a job, Ed took him under his wing. 15 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:44 Shane Parrish Meanwhile, Ed was discovering something about himself that would matter more than any business strategy. 14 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. 15 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:06 Shane Parrish The first thing Ed did was move operations out of the cramped quarters behind Court Street. 15 times in the scene
• ▶ 42:48 Shane Parrish If Ed had known everything that could go wrong, he might never have tried to expand. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 47:09 Shane Parrish But Ed's siblings wanted out. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:18 Shane Parrish In 1996, Mike Hines told Ed 15 times in the scene
• ▶ 55:25 Ed Stack Quotes Ed would say later, we'd peered into the halls of hell, and we were never going back. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:05 Shane Parrish The VCs had invested for quick growth, not to watch Ed slowly rebuild. 18 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:02:22 Shane Parrish While Ed was fighting for control, a former Maryland football player named Kevin Plank was building something revolutionary in his grandmother's basement. 14 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:24 Shane Parrish Ed Stack was working the sales floor when it happened. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:08:27 Shane Parrish And then the father son dynamic between Ed and Dick and the tension and the stress and to VCs and to all the lessons that they learned and how important it is to have the right partners and never be 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:15:19 Shane Parrish Ed despised working at his father's store every summer and weekend from age 13 to he was done college. 10 times in the scene