Walmart, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Walmart comes up
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 18:54 Kaz Nejatian The total market size of Walmart would have been massively underestimated.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 51:56 Bill Gurley You could take the board members from Walmart and Costco and GM and, and General Electric or whatever you consider the top 10 best companies,
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 39:08 Shane Parrish He saw what Sam Walton had done with Walmart, taking a concept and spreading it coast to coast. 3 times in the scene
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:35 Shane Parrish At Walmart, he wouldn't let purchasing agents accept so much as a hot dog from vendors.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 25:50 Anthony Scilipoti When Walmart is telling you that there's a problem with its sales forecast, and Target is struggling, and Lululemon can't sell the same number of pants, and Starbucks is considering to changing some of its pricing and some of its, its…
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 25:46 Tracy Britt Cool I mean, Sam Walton at Walmart, he was all about the fundamentals, and he was in a store every week, and, you know, multiple stores every week, focused on how do we deliver for our customers more effectively.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 24:31 Shane Parrish And he built Walmart by growing quietly in concentric circles, staying under the radar, expanding outward from Bentonville without attracting attention from bigger competitors.
- ▶ 35:42 Shane Parrish He'd watched Walmart destroy local department stores.
- ▶ 1:07:24 Shane Parrish 65 employees quit immediately, but Walmart followed suit, and so did Kroger.
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:03 Shane Parrish For Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, it took a lot of hard work, a little genius, and one crucial ingredient, theft, or as he preferred to call it, borrowing.
- ▶ 26:17 Shane Parrish Sam Walton would adopt them for Walmart, and Jim Senegal would perfect them at Costco, all because Saul Price believed the most important thing a leader could do was teach.
- ▶ 26:30 Shane Parrish Competition from Walmart, Kmart, and Target is fierce.
- ▶ 39:14 Shane Parrish Sam's Club had Walmart's deeper pockets, but Saul could never merge with them.
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:40 Shane Parrish He turned employee loyalty into a competitive moat so deep that Walmart couldn't cross it.
- ▶ 33:45 Shane Parrish It's the same playbook that Amazon would later use with book publishers or that Walmart used with consumer goods companies.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 1:16:57 Indra Nooyi I remember there was a Walmart senior executive, Greg Foran, who was running North America Walmart, and he was in Kiwi, and he was turning around Walmart North America. 4 times in the scene
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 1:04:08 Shane Parrish Sam Walton started the first Walmart at 44.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 46:44 David Heacock You know, gotten more and more, much better over the years at really differentiating within our, within our brand, and, like, we've actually rolled out some new media with a partner with Kimberly Clark to do it, and, like, we really kind…
- ▶ 55:06 David Heacock And, um, here I am, we just launched in 505 Walmarts and, um, really have a big retail strategy going forward.
- ▶ 58:57 David Heacock The customer obviously has to go in and pick it up, and they have to do that, that extra work themselves, but if they're already there, maybe, maybe it's something that they would like to take, but for me also as a brand, we, we now are… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:07 David Heacock So like places like Walmart, Costco and whatnot. 2 times in the scene
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era.
- ▶ 11:25 Shane Parrish This virtuous cycle, which Sam Walton and later Jim Senegal would turn into billion-dollar empires at Walmart and Costco, was tested behind a counter in Toronto a century earlier.
- ▶ 35:50 Shane Parrish No more sales, no more promotions, just like Walmart, except Eaton's wasn't Walmart. 6 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 31:43 Shane Parrish It sounded like it's kind of the Walmart strategy, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02:40 Alfred Lin To anywhere, and they would even pick up something from, I don't know, Bloomingdale's, or from Walmart.
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 5:06 George Stalk Jr. And that was the story of Walmart versus Kmart for many years.
- ▶ 49:17 Shane Parrish You mentioned earlier that Walmart sort of attacked Kmart with velocity. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:56 George Stalk Jr. Whereas other people, like, you know, at that point in time, if you go to Walmart, look at their return policies, I mean, it was astoundingly complex. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:29 George Stalk Jr. At this point, I said that's only Amazon, Walmart, and Toyota are probably the only three companies I can imagine that are even closer to being able to do that.
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 14:37 Neil Pasricha I was working at Walmart.
- ▶ 1:10:47 Neil Pasricha If you were considering, like I was in 2016 after I'd worked 10 years at Walmart, eight of which were overlapping with writing and speaking and stuff on the side, I was like, do I want to lean into this full time? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:41 Neil Pasricha Have you heard of Walmart?
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 57:18 Andrew Wilkinson They weren't going to want to be on only on Walmart or Amazon or something like that, and we felt they were the best platform.
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 28:53 Jeff Immelt Walmart is simple, but it's not simplistic, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:57 Jeff Immelt Walmart is huge.
#113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor
- ▶ 47:13 Shane Parrish That almost sounds like Walmart-esque, right?
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 43:15 Seth Godin Your product might be great, but how do you get it on the shelves of Walmart? 2 times in the scene
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 30:25 Neil Pasricha I worked at Walmart for 10 years.
- ▶ 56:06 Neil Pasricha I think two years at this time, and I was working at Walmart.
- ▶ 1:14:12 Neil Pasricha I accepted that job at Walmart, which at the time, if you remember, was, like, not a very cool place at the time, you know. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:00 Neil Pasricha So I worked at Walmart for a decade, and my writing, uh, all the stuff I've been talking about with you so far today, Shane, was always on the side. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:58 Neil Pasricha Like, I always use the example of, like, uh, going to the gym when I was at Walmart.
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 15:54 Jim Collins You have Sam Walton of Walmart.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 50:59 Shane Parrish Cause I'm thinking like I used to, like if I wanted to compete with Walmart, I could open a store and I can compete with them and people would see my store and they would find it and they would try to buy it. 2 times in the scene
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 35:54 Howard Marks You know, everything in Walmart just went up.
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 11:37 Shane Parrish Would you say you're lowering the friction of starting an online business and giving people the tools that they can use to compete against bigger, more well-funded infrastructures like Walmart or Amazon or?
- ▶ 12:53 Tobi Lütke What happens, and what always happened, um, if you're a small village somewhere, or medium-sized city, um, and you have this thriving community of different stores, merchants, people, like everyone, like this collision of ideas which… 3 times in the scene
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 13:24 Pedro Domingos I know there's, there's one company that they, they use real time traffic data and they use satellite photos, I'm not kidding, of parking lots to figure out how many people are shopping at Walmart, let's say, and other stores to decide…
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 35:27 Shane Parrish Like, I know if I go to Walmart 2 times in the scene