Vietnam, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 18Balaji Srinivasan 3Garry Tan 2Tom Gaynor 1Stanley McChrystal 1Nancy Sherman 1Josh Wolfe 1Douglas Rushkoff 1David Heacock 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vietnam comes up
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 59:44 Shane Parrish The US military projects that had been Hyundai's bread and butter were drying up as the Americans got pulled deeper into Vietnam. 5 times in the scene
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:29 Shane Parrish He came back to Vietnam to build his company during the worst recession since the depression.
- ▶ 12:13 Shane Parrish This would influence every major decision he made afterward, from volunteering for Vietnam to betting everything on FedEx.
- ▶ 12:20 Shane Parrish Fred could have easily avoided Vietnam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 Shane Parrish When Fred Smith returned from Vietnam in July of 1969, he didn't go straight into building FedEx. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Shane Parrish Some executives wanted to shut down immediately, but Smith remembered a lesson from Vietnam.
- ▶ 26:16 Shane Parrish Through every crisis, Smith stuck to what Sergeant Jack had taught him in Vietnam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:31 Shane Parrish The bone disease that should have crippled him, the car accident that killed his friend, Vietnam, the Vegas gamble.
- ▶ 47:06 Shane Parrish In Vietnam, Fred learned from Staff Sergeant Jack, an enlisted man from Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:38 Shane Parrish The New York Times had started revealing the Pentagon Papers, 7000 pages proving the government had lied about Vietnam for decades.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 34:00 Josh Wolfe I mean, we still have very cheap labor in Foxconn factories in China and Vietnam and elsewhere now doing that, but there's no reason for that over time.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 41:30 David Heacock I was using Craigslist as a traffic source where I had a team of guys in Vietnam who were helping me to
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:10:42 Tom Gaynor To go on a trip to Vietnam, which would have left the U.S. in late February and come back in early March and kept sort of going back and forth.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:20:14 Balaji Srinivasan And so that's a flippening of the 20th century where it's not like the U.S., you know, the U.S. did have losses in Vietnam and so on, but broadly speaking, the U.S. generally won battles in the Cold War, generally won economically. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:33 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, Vietnam, all these other countries have kind of gone into the China model cause it's worked.
#132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
- ▶ 48:39 Stanley McChrystal Well, the battalion commander was a very charismatic guy, and he told people that in Vietnam, they wore their t-shirts on backwards, so less of their skin showed, and the Viet Cong couldn't see it as easily and wouldn't kill them.
#126 Nancy Sherman: Soldiers and Stoics
- ▶ 4:42 Nancy Sherman They had fought in Vietnam, and they also knew about stoicism, their own version.
#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
- ▶ 1:00:10 Douglas Rushkoff We transport those shrimp all the way to China and Vietnam, where they get deshelled, and then put them on other boats and ship them all the way back to us.