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Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
- ▶ 36:34 David Baszucki I mean, when I talk to senators in the United States,
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 32:04 Brad Jacobs There's geopolitical risk in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in Taiwan, there's, in the United States, politics is very volatile.
- ▶ 1:01:51 Brad Jacobs Roughly about 7000 distributors here in the United States is about almost twice that amount in Western Europe.
- ▶ 1:21:05 Brad Jacobs You find a lot of time in corporate America
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 2:07 Shane Parrish And somehow, out of that home came a man who would one day control roughly nine out of every 10 barrels of oil refined in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 Shane Parrish Drake's well, the first commercial oil well in the United States, hit at 69 and a half feet underground.
- ▶ 56:11 Shane Parrish In that year, the richest man in America was Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was 74.
- ▶ 1:00:44 Shane Parrish In the last days of November, 1871, Rockefeller checked into a hotel in New York City and disappeared into a series of meetings with the most powerful railroad men in America.
- ▶ 1:25:45 Shane Parrish On a Thursday morning in September, 1873, the largest bank in America failed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:40 Shane Parrish By 1881, Rockefeller had a problem almost no businessman in America had faced before.
- ▶ 1:50:20 Shane Parrish In it, he told forty million kerosene-burning Americans that the light in their homes was priced by a single company most of them had never heard of. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:33 Shane Parrish Rockefeller than every senator, investigator, and ranting reporter combined, to understand why it helps to start where she did in the place where oil was first discovered in America, northern Pennsylvania. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19:03 Shane Parrish It's worth noting the entire federal budget of the United States at the time was just seven hundred and fifteen million.
- ▶ 2:20:32 Shane Parrish Most diseases, he had realized, had no known cure, and almost no one in America was trying to find one.
- ▶ 2:34:44 Shane Parrish For many, he was the most hated man in America, builder of the octopus, the original trust. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44:12 Shane Parrish The country never did settle the question. 3 times in the scene
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 27:50 Dr. Gio Valiante And when this research made its way to America, 2 times in the scene
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
- ▶ 16:40 Dr. Giulia Enders We have one toilet where it goes into the water, which is, I think, the American and Canadian type that you know of as well.
- ▶ 20:51 Dr. Giulia Enders And especially in the United States, I have to say, um, we see that this is a problem that is maybe responsible for the
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 24:34 Bill Gurley The U.S. is like three, four, five percent of the global population.
- ▶ 34:35 Bill Gurley That USDC is, is in fact doing that, um, where they have, they have created a dollar for dollar holding in treasuries, US treasuries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Bill Gurley I just think because they waited so long in the US, you know, this FedNow project has been just out there forever, that, that the threat becomes this new thing. 3 times in the scene
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 26:47 Shane Parrish The Americans had a massive presence in the city and they needed housing, roads, and the infrastructure of a semi-permanent occupying force. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:33 Shane Parrish The trust he had spent years building, contract by contract, starting with the Americans in Busan, starting before that with the auto shop, and starting even before that with the rice shop where he arrived first every morning and swept the…
- ▶ 53:10 Shane Parrish Chung admitted that it was humiliating, but he also understood it was the price of admission, the same way it had been with the Americans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:41 Shane Parrish Instead, Korean companies took the expertise they had painstakingly gathered from American bases, from German engineering, and from every condescending supervisor and every humiliating ceiling, and used it to build their own nation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:03 Shane Parrish He called his brother who was in the United States negotiating a loan for the cement plant.
- ▶ 1:35:33 Shane Parrish The Hyundai Excel, a redesigned subcompact priced at 4995 dollars launched in the American market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:28 Shane Parrish He went to the Americans for the loan.
- ▶ 1:59:51 Shane Parrish Korea had built the highways, the ships, and was now selling cars in America.
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 53:05 Winston Weinberg So you can't do that in the U.S. right now.
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 38:15 Greg Brockman We have this concentration of where the breakthrough algorithms come from in the US, in Western companies. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:21 Greg Brockman How do we ensure that America remains a leader, right?
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 3:43 Joe Liemandt Do we admit as a society that there is a problem or is it just sort of like, yeah, this is, this is, I think where it gets complicated, uh, at least in, and you have us versus globe is a little different, which is as a society, everybody… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 Joe Liemandt There's nothing like, and if you, back to that whole correlation, it's just, you know, there's no concept in U.S.
- ▶ 25:15 Joe Liemandt And bottom 10% in America means you can't read. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:51 Joe Liemandt I've met a lot of boards and heads of school of the top schools in this country, private schools who charge, you know, 50, 75,000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:01 Joe Liemandt It's what, why people, 50% of America puts their kids in after school sports, because everybody expects that cycle to be run in sports.
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 3:31 Shane Parrish When U.S. tariffs shut down the American market right next door,
- ▶ 7:50 Shane Parrish The Americans processed them into frozen French fries, packaged them, and shipped them right back into Canada. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Shane Parrish A McCain Foods marketing employee heard through the grapevine that Coca-Cola was planning to introduce a mixture of five citrus juices that had already succeeded in the U.S. market, so he registered the trademarked
- ▶ 19:51 Shane Parrish Wanting to avoid heavy competition, at least for now, he skipped the United States entirely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Shane Parrish The United States got one sentence. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Shane Parrish Even the McDonald's win didn't crack the American retail market. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:41 Shane Parrish America required a massive acquisition.
- ▶ 35:55 Shane Parrish In October, 1992, without consulting Harrison, Wallace publicly announced that Michael would lead McCain Foods' U.S. operation.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 0:43 Connor Teskey Undoubtedly, our, our biggest markets, uh, continue to be the United States and Western Europe, but we are truly a global business today, with operations across Asia-Pac, India, the Middle East, and, and South America as well.
- ▶ 1:07:42 Connor Teskey That's your four Oh one K and retiree market here in the United States.
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 0:45 Shane Parrish He'd watched every major hotel chain in America go bankrupt during the depression, and he wanted nothing to do with them.
- ▶ 10:38 Shane Parrish He'd been watching the rise of car culture in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:57 Shane Parrish The sit-down restaurant inside was turning people away, and everyone said it was the biggest drive-in in the whole United States.
- ▶ 36:31 Shane Parrish A cross section of America.
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 1:06:55 Vlad Tenev We launched this thing in the U S called Robinhood ventures, which aims to solve this problem. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:42 Vlad Tenev So for example, there's tender offer vehicles, uh, in the U S that allow trading only at, uh, the nav, the net asset value, which is, uh, sort of like the, uh, the, the price that these assets are priced by independent valuation bodies.
- ▶ 1:20:46 Vlad Tenev Can we get people outside the U S plugged in as well? 6 times in the scene
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
- ▶ 15:54 Shane Parrish Japanese shoes can capture the American market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:16 Shane Parrish And the most respected track coach in America is sitting across the table offering to go house.
- ▶ 23:40 Shane Parrish Knight has to pay for shoes from Japan months before he can sell them in America.
- ▶ 25:54 Shane Parrish Knight discovered that Onetsuko was actively shopping for other American distributors.
- ▶ 30:30 Shane Parrish With Nishu's backing and the bank crisis behind them, Nike entered its golden age, but not because of anything Nike planned, because America started running. 2 times in the scene
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 9:15 Shane Parrish How do you see the difference between American and European mindsets? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 Nicolai Tangen We didn't, we didn't think about like tariffs and relationship between the U S Europe, you know, what's going on now in the U S in Europe, in India, in China, we have no clue.
- ▶ 25:46 Nicolai Tangen American people take more risks than, let's say, Haitian people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Shane Parrish How would you advise the United States or Canada to set one up, knowing what you know now?
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 44:44 Michael Ovitz That make me really believe in this country. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:58 Michael Ovitz We live in what I think is the greatest country in the history of mankind.
- ▶ 1:10:28 Michael Ovitz She's never run a business, and she's running a budget of one of the biggest corporations in the country. 2 times in the scene
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
- ▶ 14:42 Shane Parrish America was booming.
- ▶ 16:47 Shane Parrish To understand what Ray Kroc saw when he stepped onto that lot in San Bernardino, you have to understand what had been happening along America's roadsides. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Shane Parrish Kroc got the rights to franchise McDonald's everywhere in the United States except territories the brothers had already sold.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 23:58 Morgan Housel So housing, affordable housing, I think is the single biggest social problem, certainly in America, probably in Canada right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:24 Morgan Housel If you went back to the 19 fifties and sixties in America, you would have seen construction everywhere.
- ▶ 44:07 Morgan Housel His parents moved here from America, moved to America, and worked their tails off to support their children, including this guy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Morgan Housel And every library, every, every city in America has a Carnegie library and Carnegie Hall and whatnot.
- ▶ 1:10:17 Morgan Housel I think there are, of all of the possible outcomes of the United States during the Great Depression in the
- ▶ 1:24:19 Morgan Housel That created kind of the backbone of what we knew then and view now as like middle-class America, white picket fence, average people, plumbers, teachers, firemen, policemen, who could have a, you know, buy a house when they were 25 and…
- ▶ 1:50:01 Morgan Housel It basically owns every stock in every company, in every industry, in every size in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 3:18 Shane Parrish Sales of tires in the U.S. haven't just slowed.
- ▶ 13:06 Shane Parrish At 27, he was just named Volvo's top dealer in all of America. 2 times in the scene
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 21:01 Shane Parrish What should Canada's strategy be concerning our relationship with the United States? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Pierre Poilievre I find it ironic, you know, here's Mark Carney, the guy who moved his corporate headquarters to the US, who has 90% of his assets in the US, um, who, uh, 3 times in the scene
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 40:34 Indra Nooyi How could you have learned international markets without getting out of the office in the U.S.?
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 0:50 Shane Parrish They've revolutionized how America thinks about home improvement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:19 Shane Parrish What neither knew yet was that this partnership would revolutionize how Americans shop, build, and think about home improvement.
- ▶ 17:09 Shane Parrish It was a massive store, unlike anything else seen in America.
- ▶ 38:54 Shane Parrish Bernie wanted the Home Depot to be the first truly national home improvement brand in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:33 Shane Parrish By the mid-nineteen nineties, the Home Depot had become one of America's most admired companies.
- ▶ 54:48 Shane Parrish More importantly, it had fundamentally changed American culture. 2 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 53:28 Rory Sutherland You know, arguably, uh, the legal system, particularly in the United States, has strayed into all kinds of areas which were once settled by two humans amicably discussing something, and possibly finding a creative resolution to, to the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:08 Shane Parrish And we saw this last week play out in the U.S. with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
- ▶ 1:37:34 Rory Sutherland But I do find it slightly weird in the US, where if you're somewhere like Arizona, you could literally hang them up for, I was in Fuerteventura, an island in the Calaries, and the amusing thing was you literally, they had a washing machine… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:05 Rory Sutherland Just as in America, you have a temperature, and you have a feels-like temperature, which is, by the way, a very, very intelligent thing, because
Mary Kay Ash: The Greatest Salesperson In History [Outliers]
- ▶ 4:23 Shane Parrish But first, she had to survive 25 years in corporate America.
- ▶ 21:50 Shane Parrish Only five to seven percent of U.S. businesses were owned by women, and most of those were small retail shops or beauty salons.
- ▶ 50:17 Shane Parrish Tens of thousands of consultants spread across America. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:47 Shane Parrish Today, there are still pink Cadillacs on American roads, and there's still conventions where thousands gather to celebrate success.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 44:13 Jim Murphy Someone has an idea in China, and we can see it right away in America.
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