Omaha, Nebraska, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 16Reed Hastings 1Patrick Collison 1Garry Tan 1David Segal 1Bill Ackman 1Bethany McLean 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Omaha, Nebraska comes up
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:34 Shane Parrish Charlie Munger was a lawyer from Omaha who taught himself psychology because Harvard Law School refused to.
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 33:28 Shane Parrish One of his best friends, Grant McFadden, Omaha's pioneer Ford dealer, was a client.
- ▶ 54:01 Shane Parrish One of those copies ended up in the hands of some University of Tennessee students heading to Omaha, Nebraska to visit Warren Buffett.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:25 Shane Parrish Warren Buffett living modestly in Omaha while managing billions follows principles Hedy would have approved of.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:03:19 Shane Parrish Jimmy Pattison is often dubbed as Canada's Warren Buffett, a comparison that Buffett even himself playfully flipped and said back in Omaha, unknown as the Jim Pattison of the United States.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 25:32 Reed Hastings So, you know, most companies have policies, you can spend 250 dollars in certain cities, and, you know, more in Tokyo, and, you know, less in Omaha, and they're trying to save money, right?
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:02 Shane Parrish It's the 19 fifties in Omaha.
- ▶ 6:25 Shane Parrish After a brief stay in Iowa, where their first daughter, Frances, was born, the Blumpkins moved to Omaha, Nebraska. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:20 Shane Parrish New officers arriving at Omaha would ask, where should I buy furniture? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:51 Shane Parrish But Rose's approach made the established Omaha retailers furious because they weren't just losing customers.
- ▶ 20:34 Shane Parrish 14 years later, in May, 1975, catastrophe returned again when a tornado cut a quarter-mile path through Omaha, leveling an entire Nebraska Furniture Mart building and warehouse.
- ▶ 26:18 Shane Parrish A lifelong Omaha resident, he admired the Blumpkins' business savvy from afar.
- ▶ 34:31 Shane Parrish Today, Nebraska Furniture Mart spans 77 acres in Omaha with a million square feet of retail and warehouse space.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 57:03 David Segal Here's a guy who can make very few decisions, uh, but make them with so much conviction and then live in Omaha, Nebraska and like go sit in a fishing boat while the world goes on around him.
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 1:11:20 Bethany McLean I mean, to put it in really sort of blunt terms that that would make sense, I got to go spend a day with Warren Buffett in Omaha, right?
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 1:18:09 Bill Ackman And he structured it in a way, both legislatively, you know, being a Omaha based insurer, uh, where he has the flux and, and in light of the, the diversified nature of the overall company that unlike many insurance companies that have to…
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:01:10 Patrick Collison Public writings or you go to Omaha and you listen to what, you know, Warren and especially Charlie talk about, um, you know, it's
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 23:53 Shane Parrish Omaha in part because you felt like somebody was always whispering in his ear and the assumption or, you know, reading between the lines there is that I think they're more conscious about how they set up not only their, um, structure of…