Pittsburgh, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 55Thomas Tull 2Shep Gordon 2Indra Nooyi 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pittsburgh comes up
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 53:15 Shane Parrish A city like Pittsburgh made sense, as it was closer to the oil. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:43 Shane Parrish The men were William Warden from Philadelphia and Charles Lockhart from Pittsburgh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:43 Shane Parrish Major decisions were now scattered between partners located in Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and even Baltimore.
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 47:06 Shane Parrish Jim Delgatti in Pittsburgh invented the Big Mac.
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 28:23 Shane Parrish And that brings us to the ghost of Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon. 4 times in the scene
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 50:13 Shane Parrish Pittsburgh, on the other hand, had everything they needed. 3 times in the scene
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 1:17:14 Indra Nooyi And Doug McMillan, the CEO, told Greg Foran, hey, Indra is a good friend of mine, and, um, Greg Foran said, well, if you really want to learn Walmart, follow me on a store tour, and you know, these guys go to a store every day, some… 2 times in the scene
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 3:34 Shane Parrish Even at his home in Pittsburgh, Mellon was a ghost. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Shane Parrish In 1823, a nine year old farm boy set out at dawn to walk 21 miles to Pittsburgh. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:52 Shane Parrish Over 20 new banks opened in booming Pittsburgh during this period, which may explain why there were so many financial panics. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:14 Shane Parrish More than anyone else in Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 36:24 Shane Parrish She found Pittsburgh suffocating. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:17 Shane Parrish Mellon, who had emerged from his characteristic reserve to throw himself into the campaign, raised 400,000 dollars from Pittsburgh alone and personally donated 56,000 dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:24 Shane Parrish The quiet, methodical world of Andrew Mellon's Pittsburgh was giving way to something louder, faster, more dynamic, and potentially more dangerous. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:29 Shane Parrish The ghost of Pittsburgh had created something that would outlive not just his reputation, but the very era that had tried to destroy it.
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 41:00 Shep Gordon We, uh, got our first stadium date at Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 46:02 Shep Gordon And just like the reason Wolfgang worked for free at the Big Island, all the chefs were convinced that if they had an expensive restaurant, the only way to keep it full was to go reach out to Chicago, to Pittsburgh, to Hawaii, to all these…
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 38:17 Thomas Tull And so, I came to Pittsburgh and, um, had the opportunity to spend real time with, with Mr.
- ▶ 49:11 Thomas Tull I think, uh, we're very fortunate in Pittsburgh.
#21 Ed Latimore: The Warrior Poet
- ▶ 0:35 Shane Parrish On this episode, I have Ed Latimore, a professional boxer, philosopher, and physics major from the Steel City. 2 times in the scene