116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-03-21
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Well, Sam still has a higher quality product.”
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Focus
“So I've told you over and over again, he, um, focused on quality of products, but he's also, um, extremely focused on…”
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People
“So people that self-educated and people that succeeded in a business were basically the people that he had the most respect for.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“Uh, w- su- uh, served him well years later when despite a worldwide shortage of Scotch, he was able to draw upon…”
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Capital
“They stored their goods in warehouses conveniently situated for their markets and reaped the advantages of very low overhead." Remember, at this…”
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