85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-08-18
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“She wanted to incrementally improve the existing product line and not scratch everything they were doing and building a jet, which is…”
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
“'There's your damn money,' she said." And so while Walter was focused on trying to build the Model 17 and then obviously…”
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People
“And so, um, this is where people were saying, like, her slow-we-go incremental approach was, um-- Like, people thought it was detrimental.”
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
“In this case, the daughter, Mary Lynn, is writing those words about 60 years after her father died and about 15 years…”
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
“And they had-- At the time, they had this thing called a wartime excess profits tax.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
A BIPU connection
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