Memphis, Tennessee, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 11Walter Isaacson 2Keith Creel 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Memphis, Tennessee comes up
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 8:44 Shane Parrish The day after his high school graduation in June, 1952, Jim borrowed the family car and headed to Memphis.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 4:35 Shane Parrish They lived comfortably in Memphis, but not lavishly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Shane Parrish Package going from New York to LA would first be flown to, say, the Memphis hub, where it would be sorted and rerouted out on the plane that had just brought in the shipments from Los Angeles.
- ▶ 21:11 Shane Parrish Everyone thought he was crazy for choosing Memphis. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:34 Shane Parrish At the Memphis hub, planes landed every 90 seconds.
- ▶ 36:19 Shane Parrish Replicate the Memphis model in Brussels.
- ▶ 46:33 Shane Parrish The Memphis hub was a nightly disaster.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 41:18 Keith Creel I went to Memphis, Tennessee. 2 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 24:55 Walter Isaacson Well, we're watching in Memphis just recently. 2 times in the scene