Vancouver, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 18Keith Creel 4Andrew Wilkinson 3Pierre Poilievre 2Ron Shaich 1Apolo Ohno 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vancouver comes up
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 23:55 Ron Shaich Traveling into the West Coast, the East Coast, went up to Vancouver in Canada, Mike Lasky and Tara Breads, amazing bread he was doing up there, and we're trying to find out who are the best people, um, that were meeting customer needs, and…
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:22 Shane Parrish That's running 50,000 employees across 600 locations from his Vancouver office.
- ▶ 10:13 Shane Parrish McClain was a figure of silver-haired aristocracy, part of Vancouver's elite, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:41 Shane Parrish As Jimmy Patterson stood on a Vancouver street corner with nothing but a white Cadillac convertible and a reputation, he didn't see disaster. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Shane Parrish It was dead last in Vancouver ratings for 15 years, and it was known mainly for its religious programming and racetrack coverage.
- ▶ 28:05 Shane Parrish Dominated Vancouver billboards 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:36 Shane Parrish Just because we happen to be sitting in Vancouver doesn't mean to say we've got the answers, because we don't have the answers.
- ▶ 1:03:57 Shane Parrish He did the expo, uh, 1986, the, the Vancouver expo, and we didn't talk about this in the episode, but he ran this and he ran it successfully and under budget brought in all this money, all these companies to Vancouver, but you know, his…
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 57:28 Pierre Poilievre And if you wonder about the veracity of that, in Vancouver, the police had to arrest the same 40 offenders 6000 times. 2 times in the scene
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 32:30 Shane Parrish When Canada's first mall opened in Vancouver in 19 51 Eaton's executive dismissed it with a bit of hubris saying, it'll never work.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 21:41 Keith Creel So if it's coming into Vancouver, and it needs to go to Chicago, if it's coming into Vancouver, it needs to go to Montreal.
- ▶ 28:43 Shane Parrish So I'm thinking Los Angeles, Vancouver, going to Toronto, Chicago, um,
- ▶ 57:10 Keith Creel You go your own way to Vancouver, which is where most of this potash is exported from. 3 times in the scene
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 42:41 Andrew Wilkinson Yeah, I think it's a really difficult thing, because they talk about this idea of immigrants to wealth, so I'm, you know, I, um, my extended family, um, my mom came from a well-to-do, uh, family on the west side of Vancouver. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:11 Andrew Wilkinson And we ended up selling, um, the business to a family office in Vancouver and the family office in Vancouver, uh, took over the board.
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 7:30 Shane Parrish So like, how, like, I can imagine it being big in Vancouver almost, but like, in Seattle? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:55 Apolo Ohno And I wanted to just harden and callous that to a degree that I can't control whether I win in Vancouver, my final Olympic games.