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Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 10:02 Connor Teskey And in 2016, I moved to London.
- ▶ 45:49 Connor Teskey I love sports and, and I feel like football's an incredible example because one of the things I love about, I live in London, so American football, uh, is you've got people that all play different positions.
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 45:06 Michael Ovitz I was in London with Tamara, she's English from London, and a group of businessmen asked to have a round table session with me, because they, one of their friends was having a problem, and one of the friends in their friend group knew me… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:40 Michael Ovitz And that's why I did that, that lunch in London, because it hasn't stopped me.
- ▶ 1:11:51 Michael Ovitz I walk around London, I don't feel safe, because the government there is taking the police off the street.
- ▶ 1:25:49 Michael Ovitz I was on the phone with one of the heads of the Premier League in London, uh,
- ▶ 1:29:58 Michael Ovitz So you have to kind of get back up on your feet like I told you about the guy in London, and you gotta go back and you gotta kind of suck it up and get dressed and go out to the playing field in your uniform.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:26:44 Rory Sutherland My wife just came back from, you know, somewhere where there was quite a nice nightdress in Harrods, I think it was in London, which was 1800 pounds.
- ▶ 1:38:15 Rory Sutherland And as far as I can see, you know, it's like those co-op apartments in New York, which are, I mean, in London, we never tolerate that degree of kind of, uh, intrusion before we're allowed to move into a property.
- ▶ 1:53:15 Rory Sutherland Because I thought you, they had the brand power to create, for places like New York and London, a form of microtransport, which was really, really cool, really, really efficient. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:24 Rory Sutherland How often are you in London?
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 7:59 Shane Parrish The case dragged on for years, forcing Hetty and her husband to flee to London for six years.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 58:08 Benedict Evans If you go to a smaller, weirder art gallery, like, London's a gallery in London called the Wallace Collection, or I was in Rome a couple of weeks ago, and I went to one of the sort of old aristocratic palaces, and this palace is like, it's… 2 times in the scene
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 26:38 Shane Parrish Polly Mellon at Vogue had been watching Anna since London.
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:23 Shane Parrish They were not the only ones in the United States, and a London cab company had already fitted out all of its cabs with rubber tires.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 40:44 Shane Parrish In 1850, Vanderbilt traveled to London to secure critical British financing, only to find the financial elite skeptical about the ambitious Canal project. 3 times in the scene
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 12:33 Shane Parrish In 1965, he enrolled at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London during what was typically a post-high school gap year, seemingly shunning the technical fields where his analytical mind might have shined naturally.
- ▶ 35:15 Shane Parrish Queen Victoria's reign is coming to an end, and in a London office, an engineer named Hubert Sissel Booth is conducting a peculiar experiment. 2 times in the scene
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 25:07 Shane Parrish Do let me personally show you how to accomplish the newest beauty tricks from Paris and London.
- ▶ 46:09 Shane Parrish This wasn't just pride, it was strategy, and in 1959, that strategy led her to an audacious goal, conquering Harold's, London's most prestigious department store. 4 times in the scene
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:19 Shane Parrish She was raised in London society, the daughter of a British brewing family.
- ▶ 1:07:25 Shane Parrish Within a week of Roosevelt's inauguration, before Mellon had even returned from his ambassadorship in London,
Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
- ▶ 49:13 Mickey Drexler I used to buy from him in London his collection.
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 1:12:08 Ryan Holiday You know, the profumo scandal in, uh, London in the sixties, there was this, uh, cabinet officer in the British government
- ▶ 1:36:08 Ryan Holiday Well, the argument was that, uh, London had an extremely strict legal system
Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- ▶ 26:44 Adam Robinson But how do I get to, uh, London quickly?
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 51:42 Nathan Myhrvold Another one that people love to bring up, which is a funny one, is that around the turn of the century, our biggest cities, New York City, London, and so forth, were drowning in horse urine and buried in horse shit, because they were full…
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 13:13 Barbara Tversky Um, the taxi drivers in London that get you to any of these obscure streets aren't imagining a map as they're navigating.
- ▶ 1:34:05 Barbara Tversky National Academy of Arts in London, where somebody pointed to Raphael's sketches as thinking out loud.
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 4:43 Dr. David Sinclair London, who are economists, and they calculated that the US alone, just by slowing down aging by one year, and making people productive, more productive for one year, would save over the next three decades, 86 trillion dollars, which we…
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 31:43 Walter Isaacson So does Ben Franklin when he gets to London.
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 19:41 Noreena Hertz I'm in London, and you're in Ottawa, and we're speaking and chatting, and even looking at each other on screen as we're doing so.
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 43:18 Matt Ridley And the problem was solved unexpectedly by a humble clockmaker from Yorkshire by the name of John Harrison, who said all you need is a good clock so you can know what time it is in London.
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 6:02 Seth Godin The borough in London called Hackney, uh, used to be on the outskirts of London when London was smaller and they raised horses there, but they didn't raise great horses. 3 times in the scene
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 12:07 Hannah Fry So, um, this is back in, as soon as I finished my PhD back in 2011, the first project really that I did with was a collaboration with the Metropolitan Police in London.
#84 Jennifer Garvey Berger: Creating Routine in Chaos
- ▶ 11:00 Jennifer Garvey Berger So now we are five adults and a puppy living together in our London flat.
- ▶ 1:15:00 Jennifer Garvey Berger And right now I live in London where we rent a house and these are two different lives.
#60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line
- ▶ 10:05 Jim Dethmer So I worked with an investment team outside of London last week and you know, at all, they've checked most of the great boxes.
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 14:05 Scott Page They might say, well, you know, it's a lot like London or something, right?
- ▶ 1:03:36 Scott Page If you think of the distribution of city sizes in those countries, if there's tons and tons of small towns, there's an occasional New York, London, Tokyo.
#49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining
- ▶ 43:36 Brent Gilchrist And can there be enough life there to have a reserve tail that a financier in New York or London or wherever is going to be interested in?
#45 Dan Kluger: Taking Time to Get It Right
- ▶ 30:42 Dan Kluger Having a discussion and realizing that they were from London, and I was going to London the next month, and we connected quickly, and I ended up going and spending a night with them and cooking with them. 2 times in the scene
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 10:46 Tyler Cowen So land prices in top cities, including London and Paris, they've kept on going up.
- ▶ 21:16 Tyler Cowen So London has applied a congestion charge going into the central city.
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 25:47 William MacAskill So I'm Scottish, and this charity exists in London. 4 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:47:00 Patrick Collison Paris, London, much, much higher density than San Francisco.
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 3:06 Margaret Heffernan And I, you know, what I chiefly remembered for my companies in the UK was, um, at the end of the day, or, and definitely on a Friday, people would go to the pub and wait for the horrible London rush hour to subside.
- ▶ 16:35 Margaret Heffernan And, um, and also at the time, so this would be the early 2000, um, coaching was a pretty kind of wild west, uh, arena, and it wasn't an area I wanted to go into, and a friend of mine who's a literary agent in London said, Margaret, you…
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 0:37 Shane Parrish This interview was recorded live in London, England.
- ▶ 16:10 Rory Sutherland So if you fly in from, um, London to Frankfurt or London to New York, it effectively says, right, someone spent an air ticket on this project, so we're going to devote the whole day to focusing on this project while Bob is over from London. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Rory Sutherland So a strange argument I've had recently is that in London, um, the taxi drivers to qualify as a black cab driver in London, you have to do a thing called the knowledge. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Rory Sutherland Now, one of the problems with a driverless car is that pedestrians will know that it's already known in London, by the way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:02 Rory Sutherland Um, we always call this in Ogilvy Change, we call this the Heathrow effect, that when, if you ever ask anybody to book you a flight from London to New York, they will always book you on a flight from Heathrow to JFK.
- ▶ 1:07:24 Rory Sutherland There's this fantastic, um, piece where Jeremy Bulmore, who is an advertising guy, uh, in London.
- ▶ 1:33:55 Rory Sutherland Now that's social intelligence, because when, when I first bought my first shitty secondhand car, I was living in London, where secondhand cars are cheaper in London than they are anywhere else in the country, because there are loads of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:37 Rory Sutherland I'm just explaining the level of poor understanding, I think, that one particular class of sort of liberal and semi-intelligentsia, you know, their whole world is all about brilliant, I'm going to spend three years working in London,
#14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- ▶ 48:02 Morgan Housel He's just, this coworker is just constantly taking his, his, his whole family to, uh, all corners of the world and not, not at five star hotels in London, but going to Oman and Saudi Arabia and Brazil and, you know, countries that most…
#12 Véronique Rivest: Wine Lessons
- ▶ 47:33 Veronique Rivet I have nothing to envy, ah, from cities like New York or London.