Toronto, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 30Tobi Lütke 2Scott Page 2Rory Sutherland 2John Bragg 2Chris Bosh 2Seth Godin 1Ron Shaich 1Pierre Poilievre 1Nicolai Tangen 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Toronto comes up
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 12:07 Shane Parrish Without the grants, he'd probably still have a frozen food company because that was the kind of person he was, but he'd have built it somewhere with easier access to capital markets like Toronto, Montreal, or Idaho.
- ▶ 34:21 Shane Parrish He kept the company headquarters there when everyone said to move to Toronto.
- ▶ 37:01 Shane Parrish Much of what was new and significant started moving to Toronto.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 9:53 Connor Teskey And in my career was after joining Brookfield, I did four and a half, five years initially in the private equity group in Toronto.
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 36:56 Nicolai Tangen Um, it's a world championship, which has been run by actually a Canadian company called SEM in Toronto.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 1:32:39 Ron Shaich It worked in Eaton Center in, you know, in Toronto kind of thing.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 51:01 Shane Parrish Industry conferences in Toronto.
- ▶ 53:50 Shane Parrish Not from Toronto, not from New York, from Oxford, Nova Scotia.
- ▶ 57:01 Shane Parrish On the flip side, if you're from Toronto or New York and your business is worth one million, you pretend it's worth 10.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:12:57 Harley Finkelstein It's done in Montreal and Toronto.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 30:56 Shane Parrish Starting in September, 1967, Jimmy bought small blocks through the New York and Toronto brokers.
- ▶ 37:17 Shane Parrish Jack Leach, Toronto establishment royalty, and Bruce Norris, a loud American who owned the Detroit Red Rings at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:30 Shane Parrish He called a board meeting in Toronto when one director couldn't attend, flew in loyal directors by private jet, and outmaneuvered the coup.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 1:03:47 Pierre Poilievre In Toronto, they say if you, uh,
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 4:54 Shane Parrish Picture Toronto in 1869. 2 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Shane Parrish His first act, transforming the entire floor of Toronto Store into Toyland at Christmas.
- ▶ 24:44 Shane Parrish Jack's biggest bet was out west when he proposed expanding to Winnipeg, 1500 miles from Toronto. 3 times in the scene
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 53:16 John Bragg If you look at our map, we have fiber from Ireland to Bermuda to the, to the east coast, and then we have fiber going west through, through Chicago and Detroit, through Toronto and up north, and all the way to British Columbia, and a lot…
- ▶ 1:00:57 John Bragg You don't have to bring people from Toronto or Ottawa to, to decide how to solve problems at Oxford.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 28:43 Shane Parrish So I'm thinking Los Angeles, Vancouver, going to Toronto, Chicago, um,
- ▶ 52:21 Keith Creel Hamilton, Ontario, and our terminal in Toronto, and, and we were inspecting the railroad in a high rail truck, and it's literally, you know, it's a, put an SUV with some rail wheels on it, and you go down the track, inspecting the track,…
#120 Chris Bosh: Hunger and Greatness
- ▶ 26:55 Chris Bosh You know, it wasn't about the adoration from fans, because I, I've had guys in the NBA come and visit me in Toronto, and when they see the fan reaction, they'd look at me and be like, what the hell is going on here, bro? 2 times in the scene
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 1:12:57 Seth Godin He's in Toronto.
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 4:09 Code Cubitt So on the heels of that, I moved from Toronto, Canada to Baltimore, Maryland.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 2:03 Shane Parrish Originally, we were supposed to do it in Toronto, and then, uh, well, the world changed.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:35 Shane Parrish I'm curious, uh, we've spent a lot of time together, so we'll probably be more familiar with each other than, um, most of the guests that come on the show, but one of the questions I meant to ask you last time we had dinner in Toronto was,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:55 Neil Pasricha I gotta find a bachelor apartment, downtown Toronto, find a place to live by myself, I gotta, like, fix my, and I started going to therapy twice a week, because that's how much I needed to talk about and process, and it was just like a…
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 15:46 Shane Parrish So the story, just so everybody listening understands, is, uh, I think it was Toronto, wasn't it? 3 times in the scene
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 42:07 Scott Page Well, then you can imagine all the burritos that are for sale in, you know, Toronto or Ann Arbor or New York, and you can put each of those in that same space, and then you're going to sort of choose the burrito that's closest to you.
- ▶ 1:06:03 Scott Page So think of like traffic in Los Angeles or traffic in Toronto or New York.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:28:33 Adam Robinson Shane drives from Toronto to New York at 60 miles an hour, and turns around, and returns home at 40 miles an hour, and they say, what's his average speed?
#44 Barbara Coloroso: The Kids Are Worth It
- ▶ 1:26:03 Barbara Coloroso Um, and I'm, I had one, I was lecturing in, um, uh, Toronto and we were in an elevator and I had taken my son with me, uh,
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 8:52 Dr. Atul Gawande One of my, one of my very first article was about a, um, a computer that could diagnose heart attacks better than, uh, better than, uh, the most experienced doctor could, and a hernia factory in Toronto where, um, the surgeons were, none…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 19:05 Tobi Lütke I knew how I could, like, like, there's Montreal and Toronto and Waterloo, like, almost right next to us, and so at least the North American, um,
- ▶ 43:40 Tobi Lütke So, um, I tell you, like, if, uh, we are here in Ottawa, if, like, a lot of people from the Toronto office, um, are coming to visit because we're working on, you know, preparing for some conference together or so, but it,
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 1:32:16 Gary Taubes Um, fasting is another way to approach metabolic disorder that's come on the scene in the last three or four years, uh, driven by a British clinician named Michael Mosley, and then Jason Fung, a nephrologist in Toronto, and, uh, Walter…
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 30:24 Shane Parrish One question that came up a lot just as we were, uh, in here before is, why don't we have a high-speed rail between Montreal and Toronto? 5 times in the scene
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 1:43:45 Rory Sutherland as if, as if the American cities, which are the, the greatest sort of proponents of, like, Toronto's, actually a lot of those American cities, they're not actually that well integrated, ok? 2 times in the scene