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The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 11:20 Brad Jacobs So there was a psychotherapist in New York City called Albert Ellis.
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 53:20 Shane Parrish And then New York City was closer to the customers, and the ships that could bring the refined product to the world.
- ▶ 58:26 Shane Parrish Refined cheaper than crude, William wrote to him one day from New York, meaning he'd seen the price of kerosene fall below the price of crude oil it was made from. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:21 Shane Parrish The stock exchange in New York closed its doors for 10 whole days, something that had never happened before. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:17 Shane Parrish Standard Oil next laid four great lines of its own from the oil fields to Cleveland, to New York, to Philadelphia, and finally to Buffalo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:57 Shane Parrish You can't have one head in Cleveland and another in New York. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21:57 Shane Parrish In 19 oh one, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, the first American institution devoted purely to discovering the causes of diseases.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 2:03:50 Joe Liemandt Or what if I had an associated life skill project where it funded your trip to New York so that you could go meet the producer for your musical, you know, or it funded your robot war that you were going to do, all ideas.
- ▶ 2:10:22 Joe Liemandt So she'd get money to do her thing.
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 1:19:21 Vlad Tenev There was actually a round table that I was part of here in New York, uh, two days ago.
- ▶ 1:41:56 Vlad Tenev Uh, which is available in New York.
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 9:26 Nicolai Tangen Uh, and now I'm in New York for a month, and you know, wow, the energy here, uh, the entrepreneurship, the drive, you know, I just get so much energy just living here.
- ▶ 16:14 Nicolai Tangen Um, he struck me again, going back to New York, you know, I buy this, every morning I buy this, uh, you know, egg and, uh, egg and ham roll, and just speed with which they wrap it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:50 Nicolai Tangen So I'm in New York for a month.
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 22:31 Michael Ovitz All things that I found absolutely uninteresting, and I made it a point to take myself away from the business, go to New York every single week,
- ▶ 1:02:35 Michael Ovitz I have in my office right now here in New York.
- ▶ 1:09:08 Shane Parrish I will say if you're, you're going to go socialist, I much prefer the New York path of like, you go from capitalism to extreme socialism, because I feel like the system will reject that versus Canada, which is like a slow march into kind… 6 times in the scene
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 7:05 Shane Parrish The Lily Tulip Cup Company sent down an order from New York.
- ▶ 12:13 Shane Parrish Then headquarters in New York killed the deal.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 26:15 Morgan Housel and I are in right now in New York.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 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.
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.
- ▶ 49:18 Ron Shaich My partner at that time, Lou King, was, was on cloud nine, and, um, I had him stop the, the car we were in, the limousine, and I got out, and I walked through Central Park down here in New York, and I started thinking to myself, just the…
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 5:18 Shane Parrish At 20, her father and aunt sent her to New York for the social season with 1200 dollars to buy fancy dresses and catch a husband.
- ▶ 13:29 Shane Parrish When Ned hurt his knee sledding in Central Park, Hedy didn't just call one doctor, she consulted specialists from New York to Baltimore.
- ▶ 21:24 Shane Parrish She commuted between New York and Chicago as if it were a suburban stop on the railroad, and she wore clothes that a society ladies made would not even wear.
- ▶ 26:01 Shane Parrish Stewart's department store, the marble palace that had once dominated New York retail, Hedy was the only investor willing to listen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Shane Parrish When Brooklyn merged with New York in 1898, creating a city of 3.5 million subject to New York, Texas, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:34 Shane Parrish In 19 oh five, when she was 71, New York City faced another financial crisis. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:07 Shane Parrish But when Hedy wrote asking him to help with business affairs, he dropped everything and rushed to New York.
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 16:20 Shane Parrish and it's taken or parked or priced like a penthouse in New York.
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. 2 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
- ▶ 5:24 Benedict Evans If you've been into a New York co-op, you may have seen one of these.
- ▶ 21:17 Benedict Evans It's kind of like, you know, the mayoral election in New York today.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 53:50 Shane Parrish Not from Toronto, not from New York, from Oxford, Nova Scotia.
- ▶ 57:01 Shane Parrish On the flip side, if you're from Toronto or New York and your business is worth one million, you pretend it's worth 10.
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 25:59 Shane Parrish Ben Bradley had twice turned down promotions at Newsweek rather than move to New York.
Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You
- ▶ 0:52 Shane Parrish By the time I sat down with him in his New York city home in 2019, I had so many questions for him.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:26:28 Harley Finkelstein I'm taking the kids, um, it's a long weekend here, and I'm taking the kids, uh, and Lindsay and I and the kids are going to New York this weekend, and we want to go see Broadway shows, and, like, we're huge foodies, one of some great… 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 30:56 Shane Parrish Starting in September, 1967, Jimmy bought small blocks through the New York and Toronto brokers.
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:26 Shane Parrish With passport in hand, she aimed for New York, where talent mattered more than tenure, where hunger beat hierarchy, and where results spoke louder than words.
- ▶ 14:41 Shane Parrish New York, 1975. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:27 Shane Parrish When she returned to New York in 1980, Savvy Magazine called the magazine for executive women.
- ▶ 28:58 Shane Parrish When House and Garden's editorship opens in New York, Anna takes it.
- ▶ 51:51 Shane Parrish On September 12th, 2001, while much of New York was still reeling from the nine 11 attacks, Anna went to work.
- ▶ 56:03 Shane Parrish In 1999, Anna inherits a stuffy charity dinner, wealthy New Yorkers writing checks, patting themselves on the back.
- ▶ 1:04:28 Shane Parrish She moved to New York without a job lined up,
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 45:33 Shane Parrish In 19 oh seven, just as Firestone was experiencing tremendous growth, the Knickerbocker Trust Company in New York suddenly failed, triggering a financial panic that spread like wildfire. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 9:44 Shane Parrish In the 19 forties and early 19 fifties, Singleton would spend days in brokerage houses in New York and elsewhere watching the ticker tape and thinking about capital efficiency.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:24 Shane Parrish A winter wind cuts through New York City where a crowd gathers outside the Church of Strangers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Shane Parrish They clattered their wagons into Albany, New Brunswick, and New York to sell their produce with a savvy that became their custom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:23 Shane Parrish In 1814, as the United States stood on the brink of defeat with Washington captured and New York bracing for an attack, one account says that Vanderbilt secured a lucrative military contract to carry supplies to the city's defensive… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:21 Shane Parrish Launching his first independent steamboat venture on the busy New York-Philadelphia route, he went head-to-head with his former employers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:25 Shane Parrish In early, far from Vanderbilt's bustling New York, two men carried gold nuggets into an adobe building in California, triggering one of history's greatest economic frenzies, the California Gold Rush. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 Shane Parrish When Vanderbilt returned to New York in September, 18, 53 aboard the North Star, he discovered the betrayal.
- ▶ 52:58 Shane Parrish Acquire accessory transit, get rid of Morgan and his allies, use Vanderbilt's cost-cutting expertise to make it profitable again, then consolidate it with U.S. mail and create a monopoly over all passenger traffic between New York and…
- ▶ 57:57 Shane Parrish When Garrison faced arrest in New York for alleged frauds exceeding half a million dollars during his tenure as transit company agent, he attempted reconciliation with Vanderbilt.
- ▶ 1:04:05 Shane Parrish Vanderbilt, however, saw potential where others saw failure, aiming to create the only direct rail connection between New York City and the industrial heartland of New England. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:41 Shane Parrish The resulting New York Central and Hudson River Railroad was among America's largest enterprises, boasting a capitalization of approximately ninety million dollars in dominating the crucial transportation corridor from New York to Buffalo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:09 Shane Parrish A statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt stands at the entrance of New York City's Grand Central Terminal overlooking Park Avenue South and the empire that he created.
- ▶ 1:17:27 Shane Parrish It's a story that involves New York society, royalty, 3 times in the scene
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 5:27 Shane Parrish Estee Lauder was born July first, 19 oh eight in Queens, New York, the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
- ▶ 18:33 Shane Parrish She had her sights set on the crown jewel of New York, Saks Fifth Avenue.
- ▶ 25:55 Shane Parrish She went all in, and it didn't matter if these stores were in New York or in the middle of nowhere.
- ▶ 46:23 Shane Parrish Sir Richard Burbridge, Harold's owner, asked his friend Alan Gimbel about exciting new products in New York. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:20 Shane Parrish Not only did she and Joe go all in on the factory, that sort of abandoned restaurant in the middle of New York that required six months rent in advance, but she also shut down their small salon business, the concession stands, and went all… 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 30:53 Josh Wolfe If you were a musician back in the day, you know, if you and I were starting a band, we would have to go and get studio time here in New York City or Electric Ladyland or whatever, and you bring your instruments, okay, maybe you could rent…
- ▶ 1:17:49 Josh Wolfe You can usually get the FT in New York time, like, four, five, six p.m.
- ▶ 1:39:22 Josh Wolfe That our infrastructure globally, but, you know, even in New York City, even in this office, there's a million SKUs in this office.
- ▶ 1:48:12 Josh Wolfe New York City is expensive, but you can live in Long Island City and Brooklyn and Queens. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 27:09 Shane Parrish Westinghouse turned to New York financers instead, a decision Andrew would later regret as he watched a major Pittsburgh industry slip away.
- ▶ 39:03 Shane Parrish At age 60, while many of his wealthy peers had moved to New York, Mellon saw what others missed.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 4:13 David Heacock So I ended up coming to New York and doing seven or eight interviews, and they,
- ▶ 14:42 David Heacock It was taking up so much of my energy, and we had so many employees in that, and it was constantly bringing problems, but I knew that to do it at real scale, that I needed to have that manufacturing, so I stuck with it, and, um, you know,…
- ▶ 31:01 David Heacock And so I have a, one person who I should mention is I have a chief of staff, um, named Coran, who actually, um, gave me COVID when, um, she, on her second day of the job, um, when I'd hired her here in, in New York, just before, um, COVID,…
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 20:00 Alfred Lin It was too hot in New York City.
- ▶ 1:20:23 Alfred Lin We're in New York right now. 2 times in the scene
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 27:55 Codie Sanchez I went to New York, where the headquarters was, to interview in three different places on my own dime.
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 2:00:27 John Mackey We hope to, certainly we hope to open them in New York.
Erin Wade: The Mac and Cheese Empire
- ▶ 6:57 Aaron Wade I wanted to, to be a chef that I learned how to cook when I was an undergrad, and I worked in restaurants in New York, but honestly, it was a really dead-end job.
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:17:35 Matthew Dicks There's a woman in New York, a storyteller named Dinusha.
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 43:57 Brian Halligan And the reason is you see the Rolling Stones in Boston and New York and then Philly and then Miami. 3 times in the scene
Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- ▶ 3:02 Maya Shankar This was really not in their domain, and so one day, I remember my mom and I were in New York for a different violin audition, and she knew that 3 times in the scene
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 2:11:51 Brent Beshore Um, one day we'll be doing a dinner in New York at a Michelin starred restaurant.
Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 13:01 Brad Jacobs So there was a psychotherapist in New York City called Albert Ellis.
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 8:12 Christopher Davis I grew up right in New York City. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Christopher Davis Uh, and you know, when the mayor passed the pooper scooper law, I mean, again, going back to New York in the seventies, you just can't imagine the amount of dog crap that was everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Christopher Davis And I remember my father telling the story about these hippies in his office at fiduciary trust company, you know, in, in downtown New York, respectable trust bank.
- ▶ 38:26 Christopher Davis And, and, you know, riots in Los Angeles and New York and cities on fire.
- ▶ 1:27:26 Christopher Davis Uh, uh, was somebody I knew in New York who was a friend of Sandy Gottesman's, I think, and he knew Charlie. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:20 Christopher Davis That's why I still, I'm going to be the last guy in New York wearing a tie.
- ▶ 1:57:37 Christopher Davis I think, I think having grown up in New York and really not been a part of that, that I think, I think we felt a little bit like outsiders growing up. 3 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 7:20 Tom Gaynor So for instance, Macy's department store here in New York, Mr. 2 times in the scene
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
- ▶ 1:07 Shane Parrish In 2009, he founded the nonverbal group, a behavioral research and education company in New York City, which conducts large scale studies on human behavior and uses a wide range of technologies to systematically deconstruct
- ▶ 22:09 Blake Eastman I remember we used to do a bunch of studies in New York City, and I had this one couple come in, and they, they're like, oh, can you, can you study us?
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