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How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 14:27 Rory Sutherland We just go on Willow, Zillow, sorry, or Rightmove in the UK, or whatever it is.
- ▶ 30:13 Rory Sutherland In the, and I've told everybody this, in the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards in the UK, my argument is that with the exception of P&G, Diageo, Unilever, marketing-led companies, I don't think that PLC is, what do you call them in, you…
- ▶ 49:44 Shane Parrish If you have a client or go back to real estate for a sec, you have a client who's looking at a lake house or a cabin or a cottage or whatever you call them in, in the UK or in the United States, and you get a property and you say, my…
- ▶ 56:36 Rory Sutherland You produce wonderful people, and you're always trying to import people like me from the UK or people from the US.
- ▶ 1:06:43 Rory Sutherland The gender thing isn't quite the flashpoint in the UK or Canada as it is in the United States. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:30 Rory Sutherland So it strikes me as highly problematic in the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:12 Rory Sutherland So I can't pick five Canadians and get them British citizenship.
- ▶ 1:29:27 Rory Sutherland I mean, one of the things that used to make me really annoyed in Britain was when people, rich people, got really snarky about poor people having large televisions.
- ▶ 1:31:09 Rory Sutherland Conspicuous consumption, as is argued by various people like Lord Layard in the UK, do I make my neighbors less happy if I buy a newer, better car?
- ▶ 1:37:10 Rory Sutherland Because this is something that's slightly bemusing, because in Britain, we didn't have the social stigma of hanging clothes up to dry, to the same extent. 3 times in the scene
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 35:48 Ron Shaich Uh, it had actually been developed in the UK with a company called Tesco and came through Kroger in the United States where your best customers were treated different, differently.
- ▶ 1:36:51 Ron Shaich Uh, that business is now thirty-odd restaurants in Spain and Portugal on its way to the UK and, and, and France next year.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 54:45 Benedict Evans Coming from the UK and seeing the US system, I never really liked the US idea that, like,
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:33:36 Harley Finkelstein Maybe it's to be the youngest billionaire in the UK like Ben Francis and Gymshark, or maybe it's just to afford, you know, hockey equipment.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 39:24 Shane Parrish Through Wall Street contacts, he'd arranged British financing at 13% interest.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 4:53 Indra Nooyi We were growing up in an environment where India had just come out of 350 years of British rule, and it was trying to find its place in society.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:34:13 Bret Taylor But they're really, um, their, their maps modeled the A to Z maps in the UK and were just beautiful, and they just had a lot of passion for mapping.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 29:21 Pierre Poilievre We have the second slowest building permits in the OECD, and, um, it takes us 17 years to get a mine approved, three times longer to get approval for a housing development in Canada versus the UK or the US.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:43 Shane Parrish As war with Britain loomed and then erupted in 1812, these investments positioned him perfectly to capitalize on the shifting trade patterns. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 Shane Parrish White successfully secured an initial contract from Nicaragua, but the company soon faced controversy when Britain protested, asserting control over strategic points in Nicaragua. 4 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 52:54 Bruce Flatt We've now just got licensed in the, uh, United Kingdom.
- ▶ 56:16 Bruce Flatt Uh, so instead of, instead of going out of our, uh, comfort zone on the type of liability, what we're doing today is we're expanding to the UK, and, which is a big, uh, pension risk transfer market, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:06 Bruce Flatt Now we're going to the UK to do the same thing we did in the United States, and we just got a license to do that, but it, um, we now have all the experience we have from the United States. 3 times in the scene
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 10:37 Shane Parrish Around him, post-war Britain hummed with possibility. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Shane Parrish Wine was beginning to catch on in Britain in the late sixties, and this unlabeled plonk had a certain cachet among the arty.
- ▶ 30:19 Shane Parrish To launch the Ball Barrow, Dyson and his partners borrowed 200,000 pounds, about 275,000 dollars, at a punishing 24% interest rate, a reflection of Britain's troubled economy in the mid-nineteen-seventies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Shane Parrish Unable to find an existing manufacturer in the UK willing to produce this vacuum, Dyson turned to Japan, where a licensing deal with a company called Apex allowed the GeForce cleaner to be marketed as a luxury item, selling for the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 Shane Parrish In Britain, where entrepreneurs at the earliest opportunity often sell out to take their companies public, Dyson's approach stands out as particularly unusual.
- ▶ 1:03:41 Shane Parrish It was five years before the G-Force, but it was 15 before he really took off in the UK.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 59:37 Shane Parrish The crisis came to a head in September of 1931 when Britain abandoned the gold standard, triggering another cascade of bank failures across America. 3 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:48:42 Shane Parrish I want you to imagine for, you're in charge of, let's say Canada, the US, and maybe the UK, and I tell you that we are optimizing to be the best in the world at AI.