241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2022-04-14
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“And so the quality of his product and the quality of his, his company suffered dearly.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“And so he instantly turns his attention to aviation, which is obviously the, the, the, the thing that's drawing so many people's…”
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People
“So in the beginning of any industry or any new business, you're gonna have a ton of really serious people that are…”
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
“He's called George Selden, and essentially he was just a guy that had, he, he had no in- uh, ambition to or…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“I want out of this." "My position for the past six months," he wrote, "has been that if I could get free…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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