Philadelphia, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 19Tom Gaynor 3Jim Murphy 3Barbara Tversky 3Balaji Srinivasan 3Annie Duke 3Brian Halligan 2Walter Isaacson 1Paul Assaiante 1Jim Collins 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Philadelphia comes up
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 1:27:43 Shane Parrish The men were William Warden from Philadelphia and Charles Lockhart from Pittsburgh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:26 Shane Parrish It would be a six-inch pipe running from the Pennsylvania oil fields up and over the Allegheny Mountains to a railhead owned by Philadelphia's Reading Railroad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:17 Shane Parrish He was one of the Philadelphia refiners who had quietly folded his company into Standard Oil the decade before.
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 31:17 Shane Parrish The company needed 2.7 million for a Philadelphia hotel, then another twelve million within two years for Dallas, Boston, and Atlanta.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 10:17 Jim Murphy And so the most exciting part about all of this is, is the work we're doing in inner city Philly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:59 Jim Murphy The best thing is that, is that I get to go into Philadelphia and work with my hero Shane Claiborne, this Christian activist who moved in with the poor 25, 30 years ago, and do these amazing things for, with, with, um, amazing people in…
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 50:08 Shane Parrish Philadelphia was briefly considered until the evening news declared it the murder capital of America. 2 times in the scene
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:38 Shane Parrish More importantly, he learned about leadership from Staff Sergeant Richard Jackson, a platoon sergeant from Philadelphia with 11 years in the Marines.
- ▶ 47:06 Shane Parrish In Vietnam, Fred learned from Staff Sergeant Jack, an enlisted man from Philadelphia.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:17:16 Codie Sanchez And so, I remember, I think I watched one episode of, of the one that Grant was on, and he was in, like, Philadelphia or something, and it was sort of like a manufacturing town.
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. 2 times in the scene
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 1:39:19 Christopher Davis You know, he was a great man, and it was important that he, and, you know, Ben Franklin did the same with a wheelbarrow in the streets of Philadelphia.
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 6:46 Tom Gaynor I had seen that movie before, and the old joke about Quakers in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia was kind of the center of where the Quakers came when they, when they came to America. 3 times in the scene
Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears
- ▶ 10:28 Paul Assaiante He's got a wonderful wife from Sri Lanka, and they have two little children, and they're in the investment industry in Philadelphia.
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 1:20:45 Shane Parrish In Philadelphia, yes. 2 times in the scene
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:36:47 Barbara Tversky So people think that Philadelphia is, is north of Rome. 3 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 19:48 Walter Isaacson Likewise, Silicon Valley becomes a cradle of creativity in the 19 seventies, and for that matter, Philadelphia in the 17 seventies.
#110 Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
- ▶ 57:40 Jim Collins Do you ever get to Philadelphia?
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 1:12:05 Balaji Srinivasan Did you see what I've been tweeting on the, um, the parades in, in, um, in Philadelphia? 3 times in the scene
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 0:40 Shane Parrish and I first met in Philadelphia, where we sat down to record this conversation.
- ▶ 2:33 Annie Duke Um, and I was going to recuperate for a few months and then head back, uh, to Philadelphia to finish up at Penn and go back out on the job market.
- ▶ 57:58 Annie Duke And we're sitting in Philly right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:41 Shane Parrish Of Philadelphia, yes. 2 times in the scene
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 13:35 Gary Taubes You saw very little sign of it pre-eighteen 50, and even, for the most part, pre-eighteen seventies, and then the numbers in hospitals, and you could see this in hospital records, and in Boston, and Mass General, or in Philadelphia,…