Los Angeles, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Los Angeles comes up
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 1:03:59 Michael Ovitz If I'm in LA, we just open the door.
- ▶ 1:10:17 Michael Ovitz We've got horrible leadership in Los Angeles right now. 3 times in the scene
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 18:12 Shane Parrish By the early 19 thirties, Los Angeles alone had 200 drive-ins.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 34:40 Morgan Housel I think it was his house in LA.
- ▶ 1:31:57 Morgan Housel And, uh, and then I went to college in Los Angeles, Los Angeles during the housing bubble in the mid 2000, when there was just overflowing with literally trillions of dollars of fake money. 4 times in the scene
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 19:10 Shane Parrish Bernie drove back to LA.
- ▶ 28:52 Shane Parrish Finally, desperately, Bernie called Rip Fleming at Security Pacific Bank in LA.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 22:19 Ron Shaich It was great in Boston, New York, D.C., Chicago, but it didn't work in the malls in L.A., it didn't work in the malls in Missouri.
- ▶ 1:31:20 Ron Shaich You, you know, you and the sweet green guys, you all went out, you know, you started in DC, and then you went out to LA as your second market. 4 times in the scene
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 8:43 Shane Parrish Ship something from New York to Los Angeles, and it might sit in three different airports over five different days. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:13 Shane Parrish In 1970, a check from New York to Los Angeles took 10 days to clear.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 59:55 Benedict Evans The nearest theatre is in LA, you know, Chicago, I think, like, is there a theatre in LA? 3 times in the scene
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 10:02 Shane Parrish The guy says, you know, Sol, there's this weird store up in LA called Fedco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:35 Shane Parrish People drove hundreds of miles round trip from San Diego to shop at his LA store.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 7:57 Shane Parrish In 1951, he was recruited by Simon Ramo to join Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles, applying emerging digital technologies to aircraft control systems.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 1:13:59 Josh Wolfe I mean, you know, you think about like the people that lost everything physically and materialistically in the fires recently in LA.
Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
- ▶ 43:07 Mickey Drexler I was in one in L.A. about three or four weeks ago.
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 27:54 Codie Sanchez I went to LA.
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 6:26 John Mackey Gooch's in LA, and
- ▶ 21:50 John Mackey If you're competing with, like, Air One in LA, you're not worried about price, but
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 2:06:02 Brent Beshore They convinced Harry bottle to move his family from Los Angeles to the middle of nowhere, middle of the heartland.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 40:30 David Segal We're in Erewhon, uh, which is a really hot grocery store right now in LA.
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 38:26 Christopher Davis And, and, you know, riots in Los Angeles and New York and cities on fire.
- ▶ 1:28:48 Christopher Davis I mean, it was, and at the end he said, you know, young man, anytime you, you want to, I'll make time to see you anytime you, you come to Los Angeles
- ▶ 2:12:02 Christopher Davis Uh, he had a friend that was from one of the wealthiest oil families in LA.
Dr. Becky Kennedy: The One Thing You Can Say That Changes Everything
- ▶ 1:24:17 Dr. Becky Kennedy Los Angeles, so I guess there's nothing we could do.
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 7:37 Rey Flemings You want to rent a home to stay in when you go to LA.
Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life
- ▶ 3:35 Jason Karp Kind of culture or finance, you know, that you typically would see in cities like LA or New York.
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 20:59 Nathan Myhrvold So as much as we can say, oh, we can feel superior that Los Angeles used to look like Beijing in terms of air, and Los Angeles is way, way, way better. 2 times in the scene
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 45:51 Jack Kornfield He was the poet laureate of Los Angeles a couple of years ago, and Maledoma Somme, a West African shaman and medicine man who had a couple of PhDs from the Sorbonne in Michigan or something like that. 2 times in the scene
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 28:43 Shane Parrish So I'm thinking Los Angeles, Vancouver, going to Toronto, Chicago, um,
Les Snead: Building a Super Bowl Champion
- ▶ 13:09 Les Snead I was, I, uh, Ryan Holiday spoke in Los Angeles a couple days ago,
- ▶ 18:12 Shane Parrish When you went into the Matthew Stafford trade, I'm curious how you identified Stafford who played in it, I would assume a different system in Detroit and identified that he, you know, having experienced the same system for a while could…
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 17:14 Andrew Wilkinson And so while I've got a wonderful network of amazing people like you and people in New York and LA and all over the place who I can talk to when I want to talk business or finance or something, I don't live amongst those people.
- ▶ 28:46 Andrew Wilkinson You know, LA and New York and all the most interesting people, but I've realized that there's fascinating people here in Victoria and they might be running, uh, a very radically different business than mine.
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire
- ▶ 5:37 Luke Burgess So he just graduated and moved out to LA, um, for a girl and, um, started to call me and email me and say, you know, Luke, you know, why don't we start that business that we've always talked about? 7 times in the scene
Justin Su'a: Peak Mental Performance
- ▶ 1:06:55 Justin Su'a We take her to Los Angeles, put her in front of an agent to have an agent. 2 times in the scene
#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
- ▶ 59:44 Douglas Rushkoff You know, I'm optimistic when I see the ports failing in Los Angeles and the boat getting stuck in the Suez canal and of people saying, you know,
#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
- ▶ 2:19 Shane Parrish And then you moved to LA where your, your parents owned a video rental store.
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 1:59 Apolo Ohno I'm, I'm in, I'm in Los Angeles.
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 24:50 Derek Sivers So at the time, um, my girlfriend had just moved down to LA to go to film school. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Derek Sivers And then it would like blow people's mind that I'd be down in LA and meeting up with somebody and especially somebody else who was still in that trap, right?
- ▶ 28:49 Derek Sivers Yeah, actually, that was a funny, like, storytelling segue, because this came from living in Los Angeles, where the people I was around in LA were all speaking in future tense, and it was always about what they were going to do, the deals… 2 times in the scene
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 5:51 Jason Calacanis I was invited to all the Molly, Molly's games in LA, because I was living there at the time, and she used to invite me to all these games, and be like, at the Four Seasons, oh, Leo's here, and Toby's here, and they really want to see you,…
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 17:15 Esther Wojcicki I grew up in Los Angeles in a little town called Sunland, Tujunga. 2 times in the scene
#76 Frank Stephenson: Pushing the Limits of Innovation
- ▶ 18:20 Frank Stephenson but I, I did develop this talent or, or further this talent of being able to be creative drawing in the drawing of products, and it was real serendipity when I found out that there was actually a university, a college in the U.S. in, in…
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:23:39 Neil Pasricha Uh, I was lucky enough to hear Bezos be interviewed by his brother down in Los Angeles, um, a couple years back, and one of the things he said really stuck with me.
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 5:20 Shep Gordon And then I went down to LA and got the job and came in with that attitude.
- ▶ 7:11 Shep Gordon And I drove, and I dragged myself off the battlefield, and, um, driving in L.A., and I, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:38 Shep Gordon John Lennon happened to be in L.A. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Shep Gordon L.A., I had Kenny Loggins at the Ritz on the Big Island for a corporate affair for one of the car companies. 2 times in the scene
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 17:51 Thomas Tull You're going to go out to Los Angeles and, and just get destroyed on this thing.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 9:02 Daniel Gross SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was, um, it's a very Los Angeles idea,
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 10:04 Scott Page Whereas someone else might have a very geographic view of things and say, well, Los Angeles is doing well, right?
- ▶ 1:06:03 Scott Page So think of like traffic in Los Angeles or traffic in Toronto or New York.
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 14:06 Howard Marks And then I play backgammon with my good friend Bruce Newberg out in Los Angeles, and you know, you need some crazy number to win, and you get it.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:33:34 Adam Robinson So maybe all teachers at that particular site in Los Angeles say,
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 19:45 Tobi Lütke Um, I do think that there is an almost complete difference between how you build a company in a primary market of a primary talent market and, and sort of secondary talent markets, which primary talent market really is the Bay Area for…
#33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
- ▶ 50:24 Dan Ariely Um, so, you know, it's not that I don't have anything to do and, uh, I, I don't have plans to be in LA that day, but, you know, I'm going to, to try it out and see what I can learn about, about art or, um, you know, in, in payoff in this…
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 22:05 Chris Voss Um, two fat, two fat, one founder of a business here in Los Angeles, negotiate with another founder.
- ▶ 28:08 Chris Voss A friend of mine bought a house here recently in LA.
- ▶ 43:02 Chris Voss I, you know, out here in Los Angeles, I had, I was talking to a woman whose job was securing the rights to music for songs, uh, the rights to music for movies.
- ▶ 1:12:02 Chris Voss Or, you know, I'm out here in Los Angeles now, a number of different conversations going on about TV shows.
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 41:12 Gary Taubes They end up in, you know, one of the great, uh, endocrinologists from the University of Vienna ends up living in Los Angeles, writing articles and working for the Hospital of Medical Evangelists, because nobody else wants to hire these…
#21 Ed Latimore: The Warrior Poet
- ▶ 14:29 Ed Latimore Ok, so you just reminded me of a really interesting thing that happened in LA when I lived out there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 Ed Latimore He's been in with this girl for like two years, and my best friend out in LA, I was the best man at his wedding, getting married when we were 23.
#14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- ▶ 2:07 Morgan Housel and then I moved to Los Angeles where I went to college
#11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer
- ▶ 13:00 Ryan Holiday Around the time of the collapse of American Barrel, I was just very overworked, and I, like, I built this life for myself here in Austin, where I live, and yet, I was in LA, I was, had to show up in an office every day, I was dealing with…
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 8:09 Chris Dixon Spirit is now happening in places like New York and LA and Canada, uh, in Europe and Asia. 2 times in the scene
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 9:55 Jason Zweig Charlie Munger, uh, told me last year when I was at the Daily Journal meeting in Los Angeles that he really fears for the future of the Republic, as he puts it, um, that, um, newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times…
- ▶ 34:37 Jason Zweig And you know very well the wonderful story that Carol Loomis told in 1988 about Charlie Munger, when he's sitting next to this woman at a dinner party in Los Angeles.