Toronto, every mention

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▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 28:43 Shane Parrish So I'm thinking Los Angeles, Vancouver, going to Toronto, Chicago, um,

▶ 2:03 Shane Parrish Originally, we were supposed to do it in Toronto, and then, uh, well, the world changed.

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 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

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