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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 6:07 unnamed speaker So he has spent the summer in Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Shane Parrish He comes back from Europe.
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 2:12:26 Shane Parrish Bessie, their eldest daughter, sank into a dementia she never came out of, and another daughter, Edith, fled to Europe depressed.
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 20:12 Kaz Nejatian In Europe, pre-discovery of the new world, you would look at a map from an expert and trust it.
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 1:29:47 Shane Parrish They flew to Europe and made two critical hires.
- ▶ 1:38:04 Shane Parrish Now go try Europe. 4 times in the scene
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 21:05 Shane Parrish They could serve the whole of Europe from a local base. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Shane Parrish It sat in the heart of Europe's best potato country between Germany and France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 Shane Parrish In 1968, they started shipping fries from Florenceville following the same sequence that had worked in Britain and Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Shane Parrish He saw that Europe was a single market before anyone treated it that way.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 10:05 Connor Teskey And concurrent with that move, I switched to the renewable power team at Brookfield and was part of a small group that was focused on building out a European platform.
- ▶ 1:21:49 Connor Teskey Some of our first investments right after moving to Europe when we were trying to build out that, that European power business, um, those I remember being really fun because we were
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 1:10:29 Vlad Tenev So you might've seen a couple of months ago, we did a crypto event for a crypto business in Europe.
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 9:15 Shane Parrish How do you see the difference between American and European mindsets? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 42:15 Nicolai Tangen I interviewed the 20 best asset managers in Europe.
- ▶ 55:52 Nicolai Tangen And in some, in some businesses you can do that, but, but I, but you know, we can't do that in, I mean, in Europe it's, it's difficult.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 39:49 Morgan Housel He'd skied in Europe, and he skied all of South America and whatnot, and he,
- ▶ 1:10:30 Morgan Housel It easily could have, if not should have, turned out as it did in much of Europe, where after the Great Depression, the people's response was like, maybe we should give fascism a try.
- ▶ 1:39:56 Morgan Housel This is last summer in Europe.
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 2:49 Shane Parrish Harvey Firestone is coming home from his summer vacation in Europe.
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 5:29 Pierre Poilievre These Protestants and Catholics tore each other's eyeballs out for centuries in Europe, but they got along in Canada because they said, we're Canadian here, and I don't care if my neighbor's a Protestant or a Catholic.
- ▶ 22:54 Pierre Poilievre We just have to get it to coast, liquefy it, put it on ships, send it over to Asia and Europe, where it goes for four times the price that it, that we pay for it here.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:42:49 Rory Sutherland By the way, I wouldn't do it on a beach if there were children present, and then, you know, but if you go to, if you go to parts of the, of Europe, particularly Germans will just wander around naked.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 49:41 Jim Murphy And, and what happens to a lot of parents is they got caught up in the, the illusion that I just want to provide resources for my kids, like a nice house and trips to Europe, or whatever it is, so they can do whatever they want with their…
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 1:07:47 Ron Shaich Um, we're in, in healthy eating in Europe.
- ▶ 1:31:02 Ron Shaich People come from Europe all the time. 2 times in the scene
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:13 Shane Parrish While struggling with the Tigers integration, Smith opened another front, Europe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:13 Shane Parrish After the European disaster, Smith did something brilliant.
- ▶ 50:22 Shane Parrish FedEx lost six hundred and twenty nine million trying to crack Europe. 2 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 22:14 Benedict Evans Where you have some of the kind of most obvious gaps between the US and Europe, it seems to me sometimes, are in places where you kind of have neither.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 21:49 Shane Parrish Europe came first in the 19 seventies. 4 times in the scene
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 26:37 Shane Parrish , so he flies to Europe and meets Hugo Mann, a German retail magnet who owns furniture stores and hypermarkets.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 8:16 Shane Parrish 40 years later, that newspaper still hangs on his office wall, not because it reminds him of victory day in Europe, but because it taught him three lessons about business.
- ▶ 1:00:54 Shane Parrish That victory day in Europe newspaper still hangs in his office, proof that when you refuse to accept failure as final, even yesterday's news can fund tomorrow's empire.
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 45:21 Shane Parrish When a new feature editor sent an email to the entire Vogue staff in 1994 to introduce himself, he received a fax from Anna in Europe that said, Joe, this is Vogue.
- ▶ 1:04:54 Shane Parrish She studied European fashion magazines while working at a magazine sold behind the counter.
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 58:47 Shane Parrish Then he sailed for Europe anyway. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 10:59 Elad Gil That's the common complaint I hear in Europe for Google start companies there is,
- ▶ 1:32:52 Elad Gil Yeah, there's a few different, um, contracts both in Europe and the US that are moving ahead around autonomous flight and autonomous drones and all the rest of it, autonomous capabilities in general in the air.
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
- ▶ 41:50 Pierre Poilievre We have, we're the fifth biggest supplier, but we're selling it for four bucks to the Americans when we could be selling it for 14 to the Europeans and a similarly high price to the Asians. 2 times in the scene
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 45:59 Shane Parrish Sensing his own mortality, the Commodore decided on a rare vacation in Europe, leaving trusted associates in charge. 2 times in the scene
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 24:47 Shane Parrish I'm Estee Lauder, just in from Europe, with the newest ideas for beauty.
- ▶ 47:36 Shane Parrish An offer that would have given Estee Lauder its first foothold in Europe.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 18:01 Josh Wolfe And some in Europe have tried to do these things.
- ▶ 1:32:14 Shane Parrish You could argue that that didn't just benefit the United States, it benefited Canada, Europe, it benefited a lot of- Mexico, our allies, for sure.
- ▶ 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…
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 18:13 Shane Parrish In what came to be known at the time as the Great Depression, swept from Europe to America, destroying nearly half of Pittsburgh's banks and its path.
- ▶ 41:29 Shane Parrish This same instinct for strategic opportunity would serve him exceptionally well as Europe descended into war in 1914. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:25 Shane Parrish Meanwhile, Europe, devastated by conflict, turned to America for both manufactured goods and capital.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:13:55 Alfred Lin There was a fight to win Europe, and a competitor called Windu that copied the Airbnb website pixel by pixel.
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 27:52 Codie Sanchez I think I traveled to, I went to Europe.
Rob Fraser: The Power of Focus
- ▶ 11:51 Rob Fraser You end up in Europe. 2 times in the scene
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 25:45 John Bragg It was business to business, as we call it, to selling to jam manufacturers in Europe and pie manufacturers, and if you're a pie manufacturer, you're gonna go where the apples are, because they're, 50% of the pies are apple, or if you're…
- ▶ 34:28 John Bragg We have, like, jam manufacturers that one of the biggest in the world is Andros in France, and they'll only use European blueberries, which are a different species again, or our wild blueberries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:58 John Bragg And especially in Europe, there's tremendous, uh, generations, and, and people are comfortable.
Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- ▶ 11:28 Shane Parrish We can do it with something still larger like American or Canadian or European.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 5:26 Michaeleen Doucleff It's a, it's a big question, but it dates back to, like, probably the 1500 in Europe. 3 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 1:12:08 Morgan Housel And people's push to say, hey, look at all these countries in Europe that are going towards fascism.
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 29:42 Abigail Shrier Um, but, but I do have some indication that it's, it's, you know, not insignificant in Europe, and that is that while I was writing the book, trying to, you know, put together the psychological research, and what it showed, and how what we…
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 36:23 David Segal I mean, it's, it's such a, it's so big in Europe and other places in the world.
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 2:07:54 Shane Parrish They were 12 and 13 at the time to Europe last summer.
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 8:44 Rey Flemings We had a client who was vacationing in Europe and he wanted armed private security, um, in a nation that did not allow for armed private security.
Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better
- ▶ 51:56 Frank Slootman You need to know and have conviction, and you need to take the time and do the work to, to develop that conviction, and especially in places like Europe where it's so difficult to separate and so expensive and so time consuming.
Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life
- ▶ 59:52 Shane Parrish You said one, there's two differences between US wheat and sort of a European, or you specified French and Italian. 2 times in the scene
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 9:43 Nathan Myhrvold You know, 300 kilometers an hour, uh, in Europe, um, or increasingly in Asia.
- ▶ 16:55 Nathan Myhrvold The way humans got to Europe was they left Africa.
- ▶ 26:59 Nathan Myhrvold Like natural gas in Europe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:01 Nathan Myhrvold You know, if just two years ago I had said there will be a war of conquest in Europe, you would have said I was a little nuts, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:50 Nathan Myhrvold You know, the, uh, besides the, uh, war in Ukraine, um, cutting back on, uh, uh, Europe's, uh, climate, uh, obligations.
Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
- ▶ 44:09 Tobi Lütke Europe, like, it never had really
- ▶ 1:34:57 Tobi Lütke Europe's dependence on Russia for natural gas pipelines plus the act of aggression by Russia may actually cause climate change to be solved, which is, like, an unbelievable story when you're looking at this.
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 1:11:27 Tobi Lütke European, so I tend to think that companies exist to make money at a certain point.
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:36:52 Barbara Tversky When it's actually south of Rome, and it seems to be because people line up Europe and North America, and Europe is actually farther north than North America, and anyone who goes to Europe at this time of year knows the sun sets very late… 4 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 1:14:37 Kunal Shah And then I found that the original story of shampoo is an Indian trader who went to Europe to sell a shikaka, which is a different product in India, and sold it as a chumpy, chumpy is like head massage, which creates foam, and that was…
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 51:27 Luke Burgess Before you get on a flight to Europe or something.
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 1:30:17 Dr. David Sinclair That's true for Europe, uh, it's true for Australia, uh, Japan, really bad for that.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:16:56 Balaji Srinivasan The Europeans have like some stuff, you know, and South Americans have like Mercado Libra.
Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes
- ▶ 58:37 Dr. Andrew Huberman And in Europe, they'll give you some water with your coffee.
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 19:38 Walter Isaacson From all over Europe, because of the, uh, strength of the Florence currency, uh, they're all there in Florence.
- ▶ 21:30 Walter Isaacson Uh, and over the past four or five years, it's happened, uh, in Europe some and in Hungary.
#119 Todd Simkin: Making Better Decisions
- ▶ 22:45 Todd Simkin Over time, I moved to Europe when we were setting up our operations in Dublin, Ireland,
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 14:26 Jeff Immelt Six banks in Europe went bankrupt, Wachowi was on the operating table, and TARP, which was the government program, failed on Sunday.
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 31:48 Noreena Hertz Europe met up with people who were really pro, um, they matched with people who were pro-Europe, people who were anti-immigrants. 2 times in the scene
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 58:50 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen Uh, so did Europeans, right?
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 26:25 Matt Ridley I mean, the, the LED light that we all use now, which is both long lasting and very low energy, but produces very good, reliable light, is the result of a lot of people, some in Japan, some in, um, Europe, some in America, um, working…
- ▶ 48:27 Matt Ridley Denmark in Europe.
- ▶ 52:35 Matt Ridley A lot of the East Asian economies, you know, in my youth, Japan was famous for making cheap copies of stuff that Europeans made.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 9:21 Chamath Palihapitiya oh wow moments because, um, my partner's Italian and, um, I, you know, had never really spent a lot of time in Europe, but in the last four years I've spent obviously a lot of time in the summers and my children and I have fallen in love…
- ▶ 31:53 Chamath Palihapitiya If you look at it, this problem in, um, you know, Western democracies in Europe, it's the same situation.
- ▶ 47:21 Chamath Palihapitiya For example, if you look at some of the most progressive countries in the world, Europe, on the climate issue, and you look and, you know, again, start to go back to first principles.
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 1:11:56 Derek Sivers My plan was to legally change my name and disappear into Europe and be an open source programmer.
- ▶ 1:27:42 Derek Sivers This is why I moved to Europe. 2 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 33:13 Mike Maples Jr. So if you think about it, like I'm, I don't know if I've, one time I went on this, uh, when I graduated from college, I got a URL pass and I, uh, went all around Europe
#76 Frank Stephenson: Pushing the Limits of Innovation
- ▶ 25:40 Frank Stephenson But I'd grown up in Europe and I had no, no desire to, to work and live in Detroit.
- ▶ 34:06 Frank Stephenson Around the world eventually, obviously it came to the US, but in Europe it had to, it had to pretty much in the brief save the company because they weren't selling much.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 26:30 Hugh Howey Um, I think the biggest things in five years will be, um, we'll probably see more regulation of social media, uh, especially in Europe.
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 17:24 Jonathan Haidt Um, I don't know about the continent of Europe yet or East Asia or South Asia.
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