Japan, every mention
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every year 2025 anyone Shane Parrish 63Balaji Srinivasan 9George Stalk Jr. 8Rory Sutherland 6Josh Wolfe 4Dacher Keltner 4Apolo Ohno 4Neil Pasricha 3Matt Ridley 3Dr. Rhonda Patrick 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:54:35 Rory Sutherland To wind up the Japanese. 4 times in the scene
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 22:02 Shane Parrish Japan was brutal. 4 times in the scene
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 49:37 Shane Parrish It's Japanese. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:23 Shane Parrish At an age when most start to wind down, Jimmy flew to Japan and discovered his entire business philosophy was wrong.
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 39:01 Shane Parrish Originally developed as a custom chip for Japanese calculator manufacturer, the 4004 was essentially a computer on a chip containing 2300 transistors and performing functions that previously required entire cabinets of electronics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:54 Shane Parrish This perpetual vigilance would prove crucial to Intel's salvation when Japanese manufacturers later attacked the company's core business.
- ▶ 56:07 Shane Parrish For Intel in the late 19 eighties, this 10 X force came in the form of Japanese memory chip manufacturers. 3 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 35:58 Shane Parrish When American TV manufacturers still dominated the US market, Singleton anticipated the coming Japanese competition and exited the business entirely.
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 42:03 Shane Parrish With the launch of the G-Force in Japan, Dyson had created 5127 prototypes, a number that has become mythical in innovation circles.
- ▶ 46:09 Shane Parrish Unable to find an existing manufacturer in the UK willing to produce this vacuum, Dyson turned to Japan, where a licensing deal with a company called Apex allowed the GeForce cleaner to be marketed as a luxury item, selling for the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:52 Shane Parrish Unable to interest existing manufacturers in his invention, he was forced to commercialize it himself, first through licensing in Japan, and later through direct manufacturing and sales. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:05 Shane Parrish He built 5127 prototypes over five years to launch the G-Force in Japan, and then spent another decade perfecting the DC-Zero-One for the world.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 23:21 Josh Wolfe We funded a company in Japan called Sakana.
- ▶ 1:16:45 Josh Wolfe It used to be like seven, but then when I start to travel internationally, if I went to the Mideast, I would find an English version of some of the key papers, same thing in Japan and elsewhere, and so now I read a lot of international…