Halifax, every mention
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How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:57 Shane Parrish If you walk through East Link's headquarters today in Hall of Arts, you'll find
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 17:16 John Bragg The opportunity to get Halifax, and eventually, uh, Dartmouth, basically all of Nova Scotia, except Glace Bay and a little bit in Cape Breton.
- ▶ 38:19 John Bragg Was to have local entrepreneurs do local television, but that got taken over by technology with fiber and, and where you could tie 10 small systems together and have a good size one and a lot more capital, and when we started, you know, we… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 John Bragg Well, scale ended up being very important in, in that business, and, uh, and that's why in 83 when we got Halifax and were able to tie, we couldn't really afford to have professional engineers.
- ▶ 52:51 John Bragg Uh, we're a distributor of other people's products, so I think having the fiber, the fiber network in, in our office in Halifax on the wall, we have a picture of our fiber network.
- ▶ 1:23:28 John Bragg One beauty of living in a small town, we're an hour and a half from downtown Halifax. 2 times in the scene