Costco, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Costco comes up
The Lean Startup Author on What Ruins Good Companies
- ▶ 16:02 Eric Ries They're like, man, I love Costco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:39 Eric Ries One of my favorite quotes in the book is, if you'll indulge me, there's a Wall Street analyst that was criticizing Costco. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Eric Ries The great Saul Price, the father of modern retail, the progenitor behind Costco, he called this being a fiduciary to the customer.
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:23 unnamed speaker You might want to go work at Costco or a tobacco company because those don't go through, uh, market cycles really at all.
FULL INTERVIEW: Kevin Espiritu on Growing Epic Gardening
- ▶ 7:00 Kevin Espiritu And then I was looking into Costco self storage to like rent that unload the container and like get like some sort of satellite internet to print the orders.
The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
- ▶ 4:21 Andrew Huberman We launched in Whole Foods, in Costco, Canada, and in Sprouts markets just recently.
The AI Power Backlash, the NYMag David Ellison profile, Google Personal Intelligence | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:47 unnamed speaker And, and they are basing their design for this off of, uh, Costco warehouses, Nick, here.
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:45 unnamed speaker Almost like, you know, buying Kirkland brand at Costco is typically like sort of like the canonical example of like heavy verticalization.
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 18:46 John Coogan Obviously, if you were locked in a, if you were locked in a room for like a year and then you published one episode, it wouldn't be as good as bouncing between seeing a connection between Costco and Google, for example.
- ▶ 30:51 Ben Gilbert Costco's low skew count and how it leads to, uh, basically inventory, uh, uh, suppliers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Jordi Hays No, just do a, yeah, like a, like a director's watch along with the Costco episode.
- ▶ 37:34 John Coogan Uh, do you, do you feel like there's more reception from, uh, tech folks like Balmer to engage versus the luxury houses or the Costco CEO?
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:34:06 Everett Randle Um, I mean, you want to hear of a great atoms-based business that does this, listen to the Acquired Pod on Costco.
Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG.
- ▶ 26:30 Justin Mares If you keep doing this kicks in, in a way that it just doesn't, when you're eating like the Costco, you know, ounce bag of cheese balls or something.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 2:13:49 John Coogan It's a Costco model.
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 1:23:54 John Coogan Cause you can go to Costco and get a whole flat of Diet Coke.