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#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 6:37 Sahil Lavingia Everyone who's Singaporean, if you stay in Singapore, I chose to leave and go to school in the U S you have to go through national service, right?
- ▶ 18:11 Sahil Lavingia Um, but for some reason it's still like America, I think it still has like this phenomenal culture of innovation that I think is largely driven by this weird, relatively abstract number on the, on the wall that everyone can see, you know.
- ▶ 46:03 Sahil Lavingia It's totally messed up in the U S we need to go. 2 times in the scene
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 15:23 Roger Martin Look at US politics, right?
- ▶ 19:06 Roger Martin US, Spain, all these other powerhouses, uh, uh, have, have fewer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:13 Roger Martin That's one of the reasons why I think, right, that America had a huge advantage over the rest of the world for probably 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 Roger Martin Uh, I would have been on the front pages of the Globe and Mail as having kind of illicitly spent fourteen million dollars, and I would have probably had to leave the country and go back to the, the states where I, where I had been living. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:28 Roger Martin And so, so he led, he led a, a, an effort to study whether to introduce it in the, in the U S and he introduced it despite the fact that the data didn't support it. 2 times in the scene
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 4:13 Code Cubitt So I moved to the U S to a startup called Sienna, and that afforded me a lot more opportunity as a startup to be a designer and build real world things and have my hand in it.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 30:09 Chamath Palihapitiya We've allowed globalization, a strain of globalization that has put America strategically on our back heels, and that doesn't make any sense. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:23 Chamath Palihapitiya Man, this thing, you know, if I had to take a guess, I really believe in the productivity and the ingenuity of America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:23 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think in the United States, it's also going to have some direct implications as well.
- ▶ 1:16:49 Chamath Palihapitiya For example, you know, why was the space race so important?
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 1:07:07 Matthew Holland Uh, them being banned from the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:07 Matthew Holland So he, he had gripes about, you know, those types of illegal, you know, mass monitoring or mass surveillance programs in the US.
#91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence
- ▶ 10:31 Russ Hudson He went and learned this from Michazo, brought it to the United States, and started teaching it to a small group of people.
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 5:12 Shane Parrish And then you went on to become the most decorated American athlete at the Winter Olympics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:16 Shane Parrish So at 14, you became the youngest US national champion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:07 Apolo Ohno yeah, at the age of 14, I had the raw genetic and talent ability that would take me to the top of the competitive sphere in the United States. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:22 Apolo Ohno I mean, I think our, something that I've always looked to our kind of service men and women here in these States is this psychological
- ▶ 1:07:20 Apolo Ohno It was a very powerful moment, I think, in, in the United States history in which people were very hungry and looking for solidarity. 2 times in the scene
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 34:44 Derek Sivers Um, yeah, he, I think the way he put it there in America, the, the slang term is, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:24 Derek Sivers It's, you know, I left America 10 years on my Explorer mission, you know, and, um,
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 7:25 Hannah Fry I think, you know, one of the, um, certainly in Britain, I think in the States too, there's this massive book called Fermat's Last Theorem, um, massive as in, in terms of its sales rather than physically big.
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 9:56 Bethany McLean And for some reason, there's this mom America and apple pie thing about stocks rising and belief such that you, you would think in a rational world, it would be exactly as you said, somebody who has a skeptical view, that view would be…
- ▶ 22:08 Bethany McLean I think the other part of it that's interesting is that when you look at, um, the history of corporate America, up until the dawn of the LBO era in the eighties, that was the purpose of a company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:49 Bethany McLean Well, I'm back to looking at, at fracking because this idea that, which is what captivated me about it, that the industry wasn't financially viable despite the fact, I mean, there's this juxtaposition with fracking or this disconnect in… 3 times in the scene
#83 Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters
- ▶ 32:54 Brian Koppelman I mean, you would just look at the United States presidential campaign and the way billionaires, although they didn't win, the way billionaires were able to influence the process.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 3:15 Bill Ackman But my father is, I like to describe myself as the most persistent person in America, but actually my father is the most persistent person in America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Bill Ackman You know, some of the performance related issues that they had both in the U S and that they had, you know, a lot of opportunity for growth and they were becoming a more focused, better companies.
- ▶ 45:21 Bill Ackman You know, I just, and myself, you know, recently, I was becoming more and more concerned that our government was not taking the coronavirus seriously. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:49 Bill Ackman I'm sure America is going to get there, and if we do, markets are going to recover, and we own big, you know, somewhat illiquid positions in the companies that we are shareholders of because of our degree of concentration.
- ▶ 1:02:35 Bill Ackman This country, you know, beginning, you know, June type timeframe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:13 Bill Ackman In the last six months, and you can Google it, Herbalife paid, settled with the SEC for twenty million dollars for misleadingly describing their China business and their public finance, because it actually, the compensation scheme is…
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 53:32 Jason Calacanis It's really hard to make money in the public markets, or it's increasingly harder, and we're going to see some regulation in the United States where people are going to be able to be sophisticated investors,
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 25:28 Esther Wojcicki How do you learn U.S. history?
- ▶ 50:33 Esther Wojcicki He wanted a standardized education for everybody, and the same was true in Germany, in Bismarck, and then in, in the United States, they implemented the same ideas.
- ▶ 1:12:31 Esther Wojcicki I think we need to emphasize more how we are alike, more togetherness than what we're doing today in America. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:53 Esther Wojcicki They need to, I mean, 95% of American kids are in public school.
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 41:29 Balaji Srinivasan Um, and number two, in many cities on the coast of the US, like San Francisco most infamously, you are definitely, people are definitely inhaling fecal matter as they're walking outside.
- ▶ 44:57 Balaji Srinivasan Which is to say, all these places in China have just shut down, lots of things are made in China, all these small companies in the US that depend upon Chinese parts, all these hardware companies.
- ▶ 56:59 Balaji Srinivasan I'm not sure that, uh, you know, our government in the US is selected on that basis.
- ▶ 57:53 Balaji Srinivasan I think in the US, that's not working. 4 times in the scene
#76 Frank Stephenson: Pushing the Limits of Innovation
- ▶ 18:20 Frank Stephenson but I, I did develop this talent or, or further this talent of being able to be creative drawing in the drawing of products, and it was real serendipity when I found out that there was actually a university, a college in the U.S. in, in…
- ▶ 34:06 Frank Stephenson Around the world eventually, obviously it came to the US, but in Europe it had to, it had to pretty much in the brief save the company because they weren't selling much.
#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities
- ▶ 43:07 Steven Strogatz Um, so take your mind back to, I'd say, you know, like the mid-nineteen-eighties, where in the West, here in the U.S. or Canada, the, the HIV epidemic was really starting to hit.
- ▶ 1:20:31 Steven Strogatz That you're only six handshakes from the president of the United States, or from anyone else on Earth.