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Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 15:54 Shane Parrish Timothy Eaton learned theater was the best way to get people into his department store.
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 15:32 Shane Parrish Timothy Eaton rode the wave of small department stores becoming large.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 1:09:46 Shane Parrish They don't learn about Timothy Eaton.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish We're starting our new series, Lessons from Outliers, with Timothy Eaton, a Canadian name that might not be familiar to many listeners today, but his innovations fundamentally changed retail around the world and how we shop. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Shane Parrish In 1869, almost a century before Jeff Bezos was born, and 50 years before Sam Walton and Ikea drew their first brass, there was another name that became synonymous with retailing, Timothy Eaton. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Shane Parrish Into this chaos stepped Timothy Eaton. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:13 Shane Parrish When Timothy Eaton opened his Toronto store in 1869, it wasn't just another shop, it was a laboratory for testing his theories about the future of retail. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 Shane Parrish The store couldn't expand farther without demolishing the church next to it, which was a step too far, even for Timothy's ambitions. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Shane Parrish In 1884, Timothy launched something that would change everything. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:32 Shane Parrish On a crisp autumn day in 1899, Timothy Eaton's horses spooked on the way home. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:50 Shane Parrish His father thought managing it would be impossible. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 Shane Parrish By the 19 thirties, what had started as a slight drift from Timothy's principles had become a widening gulf. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Shane Parrish They confused Timothy's principles with his practices. 4 times in the scene