61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-02-25
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“As he wrote a few years later, 'I saw that my only opportunity was to build and build and build, to make…”
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
“So that's what we're going to be focusing on today.”
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People
“He says, "I remember him saying, 'I teach my people on day one, people don't want drills, they want holes.'" Meaning the…”
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Persistence
“Okay, so 1.4, 4 million days of longshore labor each year, and now we're gonna say 10 years later, uh, d- that…”
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
“A leading maritime executive could still hold the opinion voiced in 1966, and this is an actual quote from a leading maritime…”
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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