173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-03-28
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Mayer, quality was his God, but the reason why he's going after quality or what he appeared to be quality were vastly…”
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Focus
“Walt Disney did it because that's what he was focused on, and his focus changed, as we saw when we studied him…”
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People
“Um, and a lot of the people that made films, they weren't, they didn't consider themselves businesspeople, right?”
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Persistence
“And so the longer he goes on, the longer he's able to not quit, the few competitors he actually has.”
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Capital
“"He wanted to move into the big time, to make ever more money.”
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