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7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 1:16:46 Jim Murphy Suffering and starvation, and, and, um, and in America, so much division and, and need.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 0:03 Ron Shaich I was part of building bakery cafes in America between Au Bon Pain, Panera.
- ▶ 10:20 Ron Shaich Panera was one of the two first brands to introduce antibiotic-free chicken in America.
- ▶ 22:35 Ron Shaich We said if we're the best in the United States at high density urban feeding, there's more opportunities abroad than just the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:45 Ron Shaich I was one of the eight or nine people that co-founded a group called No Labels here in the United States, which is meant to reduce the hyper-partisanship in D.C., the polarization, and focus us on long-term thinking. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:38 Ron Shaich I had always had interest in a number of other little businesses, and I was doing, after I left, I was doing a lot of speaking on the pervasive short-termism in the U.S. capital markets, and how, not just our, our body politic, but our… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:20 Ron Shaich It's the number one diet in America. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:05 Ron Shaich It's the worst market because it's not the rest of the country. 2 times in the scene
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 3:17 Shane Parrish They had access to transistors when most of America was still using vacuum tubes.
- ▶ 41:08 Shane Parrish On December 1219 eighties, Steve Wozniak became one of the richest people in America. 3 times in the scene
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 21:20 Anthony Scilipoti In the US, ok, that's the non-investment grade bonds.
- ▶ 52:38 Anthony Scilipoti The U.S. pension plan should buy U.S. companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:46 Anthony Scilipoti I operate in the US.
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 24:05 Shane Parrish In the spring of 1961, after just five years of selling cars, Volvo named Jim their top dealer in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:53 Shane Parrish Clayton Holmes grew from a single-use trailer bought for 1200 dollars to become the largest manufacturer for homes in America.
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 7:38 Tracy Britt Cool In 2020, we got close to 20,000 in the U.S., so significant shift in terms of the capital that was out there.
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:13 Shane Parrish But while the most powerful men in America are panicking, there's one person sitting calmly at a simple desk in a bank lobby, surrounded by stacks of cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:17 Shane Parrish The ensuing court case became one of America's first trials to use statistical evidence.
- ▶ 11:22 Shane Parrish The way she saw it, the United States was on the right track and had just suffered a temporary setback. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 Shane Parrish Was her project, and she intended to make him the richest man in America.
- ▶ 26:30 Shane Parrish Her wealth during this period was estimated between 40 and fifty million, making her the richest woman in America and possibly the richest woman in the world.
- ▶ 27:39 Shane Parrish The line carried more cotton per mile than any other railroad in the country.
- ▶ 34:30 Shane Parrish When they buried Hetty Green beside her husband in Bella's Falls, the world lost more than just the richest woman in America.
Barry Diller: Building IAC
- ▶ 18:33 Barry Diller They were important worlds because those movies were exported to the world and became the export of American culture to the world in movies, uh, is probably
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:13 Shane Parrish By 1980, Nike had captured half the US athletic footwear market, and Dix rode the wave with them.
- ▶ 34:50 Shane Parrish Where else but America, he loves saying, can a dumb kid who got out of high school by the skin of his teeth make it like this?
- ▶ 50:08 Shane Parrish Philadelphia was briefly considered until the evening news declared it the murder capital of America.
- ▶ 1:06:44 Shane Parrish When Ed learned that one in five American high schools were no longer offered sports due to budget cuts, Dix launched the Sports Matter Initiative, committing over a hundred million dollars to save youth sports programs.
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:02:32 Lulu Cheng Meservey He just said, like, pinpointing this is the thing that's holding back speed in America, not just for me, but for industry and for a lot of things broadly, um, beyond just my company, and was able to help.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 9:01 Shane Parrish Route everything through a central hub in middle America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Shane Parrish When Smith's first tour ended in 1968, America was falling apart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:01 Shane Parrish Everything through one central hub guaranteed overnight delivery anywhere in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:25 Shane Parrish Promising overnight delivery to 25 cities across America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:55 Shane Parrish The first American company to reach that milestone in under 10 years at that point without any acquisitions.
- ▶ 30:49 Shane Parrish He read for about four hours a day, every day, newspapers, magazines, books on management, journals on technology, and histories of American commerce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 Shane Parrish By 1988 Federal Express owned 45% of the U.S. overnight market, but Smith saw a threat nobody else did. 3 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 9:00 Benedict Evans At one point, they were the best-selling digital camera vendor in the USA, and if you look at their annual ports at the time, they think this is going to be great, because they're going to sell way more photo printers.
- ▶ 18:45 Shane Parrish If I'm the president of the United States and I call you 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Benedict Evans You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of, like, five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same.
- ▶ 54:45 Benedict Evans Coming from the UK and seeing the US system, I never really liked the US idea that, like,
- ▶ 1:11:29 Benedict Evans To make more, and there's just going to be a flood outside the US.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 12:10 Shane Parrish Shortly after, he was visiting an American carrot processing plant and saw another opportunity.
- ▶ 18:21 Shane Parrish American blueberry growers have all of this figured out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 Shane Parrish His main competitors had the entire American market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:04 Shane Parrish From Newfoundland to British Columbia, including US assets, Eastlink was going toe-to-toe with companies 50 times its size.
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 27:52 Saul Price He absolutely assumed that what he got, what he did in Germany was transferable in detail to this country.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 2:13 Shane Parrish In this conversation, we explore stories you won't hear anywhere else, like how he flew five hundred million masks to US hospitals in empty passenger plans, and how tariffs accidentally push American factories overseas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Ryan Petersen We were like buying motorcycles in China and selling them on the internet in the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 Ryan Petersen The public record in the US, we've since learned in like over almost 20 countries that you can get the shipping manifest data.
- ▶ 16:21 Ryan Petersen Yeah, and that's just custom, that's just U.S.
- ▶ 33:07 Ryan Petersen So we're now on like a freight, just a standard plain vanilla ocean container from any port in Asia to anywhere in the U S inland, all the way to destination. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:54 Ryan Petersen And so in January of that year, we shipped about 300,000 N-ninety-fives from the U.S. to China, which then like two months later when there were no N-ninety-fives masks in the U.S., we're like, ah, whoops, like, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:58 Ryan Petersen And turned out, they're all in the U.S. or almost all in the U.S., Seattle mostly.
- ▶ 1:05:58 Ryan Petersen Uh, in the United States, that was for sure true. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:26 Shane Parrish Like, one would, I think a bonded warehouse is, you don't actually technically pay the tariff until you take it out of, so it's landed in the United States, but you don't pay the tariff until it comes out of the bonded warehouse. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:49 Ryan Petersen We talk them out of this, but, um, one of the temptations that a lot of people are falling into right now is letting your factory import the goods for you, and then buying it from them in the U.S., and then not turning a blind eye of the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:56 Ryan Petersen You can deduct the portion, if you file it all correctly, and don't quote me on this because you want to get good legal advice, including from Flexport's team, but you, uh, you can deduct the portion that's U.S. made. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:41 Ryan Petersen I mean, the Toyota production system, I think there's like two companies that have taken it really, really seriously and advanced it in the United States. 2 times in the scene
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:32 Shane Parrish This is Catherine Mayer in 1921 at the age of four, the daughter of one of America's most powerful financiers.
- ▶ 5:47 Shane Parrish The capital of this great nation deserves a good paper. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 Shane Parrish This man would one day be president of the United States.
- ▶ 12:42 Shane Parrish Phil Graham was building one of America's great newspapers while slowly destroying himself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Shane Parrish It was transforming an uncertain widow into one of America's shrewdest business leaders.
- ▶ 31:26 Shane Parrish Three miles away, American democracy is hanging by a thread. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:57 Shane Parrish A sitting president of the United States was using every tool of the government at his disposal to destroy her and her company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:54 Shane Parrish While the public saw the tough negotiator, behind the scenes, Catherine was quietly becoming one of America's shrewdest investors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:49 Shane Parrish The President of the United States targeted their TV license. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You
- ▶ 16:32 Daniel Kahneman So, that's above a threshold that was like 70,000 dollars approximately in the US.
- ▶ 29:50 Daniel Kahneman In public discourse, and in the recent 1015 years in the United States, I mean, there used to be an idea that facts matter.
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:34 Shane Parrish With that simple instruction, Les became the first major tire dealer in America to build his business around his own name instead of a manufacturer's brand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 Shane Parrish Enough to make Les one of the wealthiest men in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:27 Shane Parrish Investment bankers offered less astronomical sums to buy his company, enough to make him one of America's wealthiest men overnight.
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:41:42 Harley Finkelstein Shopify basically runs about 12% of all U.S. e-commerce. 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:35 Shane Parrish But it taught Patterson about competing against American companies with better tax advantages for acquisitions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:13 Shane Parrish While 64% of American cars had defects in the first six months, only 32% of Japanese cars did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:19 Shane Parrish Jimmy Pattison is often dubbed as Canada's Warren Buffett, a comparison that Buffett even himself playfully flipped and said back in Omaha, unknown as the Jim Pattison of the United States.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 1:16 Shane Parrish An immigrant who became more American than most Americans.
- ▶ 7:40 Indra Nooyi Was made easy in the United States.
- ▶ 8:24 Indra Nooyi But I had always dreamed about the United States because all my friends had come here and loved American music, culture, innovation, entrepreneurship. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Indra Nooyi In the United States, I mean, I looked at these leaders as, my God, so and so is the CEO, and now I'm sitting in the same room with the CEO.
- ▶ 20:11 Indra Nooyi And a big lesson I learned is that in the United States, don't ever say the data is not available. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Indra Nooyi How could you have learned international markets without getting out of the office in the U.S.?
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:58 Shane Parrish America promised meritocracy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:01 Shane Parrish Not because she wants to edit home decor, because it's her ticket back to America and closer to Vogue.
- ▶ 54:13 Shane Parrish In December, 2016, Teen Vogue publishes, Donald Trump is gaslighting America.
- ▶ 56:10 Shane Parrish By 2018, she's running a twelve million dollar cultural phenomenon that determines who matters in America.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 3:04 Reed Hastings Been working on charter schools in U.S. education for two decades.
- ▶ 48:30 Reed Hastings And then, uh, charter schools are U.S. form of school governance where a public school is a non-profit, um, and they get to be independent and operate under their own rules, um, but they operate as a non-profit focused on the kids, and…
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:23 Shane Parrish They were not the only ones in the United States, and a London cab company had already fitted out all of its cabs with rubber tires. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:59 Shane Parrish The few automobiles on the American roads seem like expensive curiosities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 Shane Parrish Every automobile in America had been fitted for clincher tires.
- ▶ 53:40 Shane Parrish When America entered World War I in 1917, production priorities shifted dramatically. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:55 Shane Parrish The company bought full-page newspaper ads and hung enormous red banners proclaiming Firestone Tire's 25% discount on dealer shops across America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:13 Shane Parrish By then, the company he'd started with 12 employees commanded 25% of the entire U.S. tire market, with sales exceeding a hundred and fifty-six million. 2 times in the scene
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:52 Shane Parrish When he reached Austria, America seemed the obvious destination.
- ▶ 15:07 Shane Parrish Andreas Groff arrived in the United States in January of 1957, penniless, speaking broken English, and knowing almost no one. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:17 Shane Parrish For a recent immigrant with a strong accent and hearing problems, Silicon Valley offered something traditional corporate America didn't.
- ▶ 53:41 Shane Parrish Through a genuine crisis when rigorous analysis and candid self-assessment would have to transform into decisive action at a pivotal moment for the American semiconductor industry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:28 Shane Parrish He described how the industry had evolved from a vertically integrated model to a horizontally segmented one in the United States, sparked by memory chips becoming commodities, and the rise of the microprocessor.