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Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 21:16 Kaz Nejatian Ray Kroc, the guy, the, the founder of McDonald's, used to go into the kitchens. 2 times in the scene
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 0:08 Shane Parrish Today, we're going to learn about Ray Kroc and the story of McDonald's. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46 Shane Parrish They called him Danny Dreamer. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:27 Shane Parrish Ray saw something else. 37 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Shane Parrish In the mid-nineteen-thirties, Croc was selling paper cups to a man named Earl Prince, who ran a chain of ice cream parlors called Prince Castle. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Shane Parrish Ray had been selling multi-mixers for 17 years, and he knew every soda fountain, every dairy bar, every drive-in worth knowing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Shane Parrish When Ray Kroc pulled up to the parking lot in 1954, he saw lines of people sneaking around the block for a fifteen-cent burger. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:02 Shane Parrish The minute Kroc sat down with his contractor, a problem became obvious. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:52 Shane Parrish In May, 1955, a man named Harry Sonnenborn called Ray's office. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Shane Parrish Before opening day, Ray got this angry phone call from them. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:26 Shane Parrish In 1960, Ray Kroc decided he was done with the McDonald's brothers. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:02 Shane Parrish So Lytton flew to Chicago to ask Kroc what he should do, and Kroc let him have it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc was obsessed with every detail inside a McDonald's. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc was wealthier than he'd ever dreamed, but he still wasn't satisfied. 18 times in the scene
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 1:03:51 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc, you know, he bought a local hamburger chain that would turn into McDonald's as we know it today when he was 52.
#115 Danny Meyer: Hospitality and Humanity
- ▶ 16:31 Danny Meyer Now, in our industry, the most successful person at scaling systems was Ray Kroc. 3 times in the scene