Montreal, every mention
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every year anyone Harley Finkelstein 14Shane Parrish 10Marc Garneau 6David Segal 6Brent Gilchrist 6Keith Creel 3Tobi Lütke 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Montreal comes up
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 12:07 Shane Parrish Without the grants, he'd probably still have a frozen food company because that was the kind of person he was, but he'd have built it somewhere with easier access to capital markets like Toronto, Montreal, or Idaho.
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 59:11 Harley Finkelstein In my office, uh, here, here in Montreal, Shopify office, I have the original screen print, uh, that Ben Francis used to create Gymshark.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 21:24 Shane Parrish Quebec had Montreal.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 2:26 Harley Finkelstein My dad is an immigrant to, we're sitting here in Montreal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Harley Finkelstein I mean, you know, I, I moved to Montreal two years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:06 Harley Finkelstein You know, we're sitting in Montreal right now, and about 10 kilometers north of here is the Chauvinel Garment District.
- ▶ 58:32 Harley Finkelstein So he's sort of one that's, that's quite famous, but we also have some friends here in Montreal who are not well known. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:33 Harley Finkelstein In my office, uh, here, here in Montreal, the Shopify office, I have the original screen print, uh, that Ben Francis used to create Gymshark.
- ▶ 1:12:57 Harley Finkelstein It's done in Montreal and Toronto.
- ▶ 1:46:32 Harley Finkelstein I think about this term, joie de vivre, which is joy of life, which is a beautiful French term that is, you know, for me, like, Montreal is the joie de vivre capital.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:19 Shane Parrish Sitting alone in a Montreal hotel room after losing Pattison-called room service, I would just like a piece of toast.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 22:13 David Segal I had this extended family in Montreal who had been very successful in business, and I had this rich history, um, that I really wasn't in touch with at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 David Segal So we were in Montreal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 David Segal And I remember being in a tea shop in Montreal, uh, off of, uh, Saint Denis, which is this really cool street, sort of Asian inspired tea house.
- ▶ 1:06:32 David Segal And that's true no matter where you are, you know, but the truth is like, I was just as happy in that base room apartment in Montreal as I am now, you know, so much has changed in my life, but at the same time,
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 21:41 Keith Creel So if it's coming into Vancouver, and it needs to go to Chicago, if it's coming into Vancouver, it needs to go to Montreal.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Keith Creel You know, we didn't go east of Montreal, and I was disadvantaged in a lot of contract discussions because if I can't serve all markets, you know, I might be able to help you in one, but if the competitive option hurts you in the other, and… 2 times in the scene
#49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining
- ▶ 9:34 Brent Gilchrist And there was, you know, there's no question, amongst the players, there was no rivalry between French and English players, but certainly in, in the Montreal media,
- ▶ 23:06 Brent Gilchrist Yeah, and I was here in Montreal. 5 times in the scene
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 19:05 Tobi Lütke I knew how I could, like, like, there's Montreal and Toronto and Waterloo, like, almost right next to us, and so at least the North American, um,
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 0:41 Shane Parrish Bit of a brief heads up, this interview is recorded live in Montreal, Canada.
- ▶ 2:09 Marc Garneau In fact, it left here from Montreal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:37 Marc Garneau At the transportation, ah, in the, in Transport Canada, we have a facility up in Blainville, just north of Montreal.
- ▶ 30:24 Shane Parrish One question that came up a lot just as we were, uh, in here before is, why don't we have a high-speed rail between Montreal and Toronto? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 Marc Garneau Transportation System World Forum is happening here in Montreal this September, and it's, uh, done by ITS America and ITS Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:40 Marc Garneau Nous avons tous vu ici même à Montréal des incidents où des camions ont écrasé des cyclistes.