Vietnam, every mention
10 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to Vietnam
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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.