London, every mention
11 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to London
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where London comes up
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.
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.
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
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,
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 0:37 Shane Parrish This interview was recorded live in London, England.