Kevin Maney | How Thomas Watson built the company of the 20th Century
00:00 the origins of IBM0
7:00 the first “Celebrity CEO”
12:00 betting the farm
16:18 Watson’s cruelty and generosity
20:34 the birth of corporate culture in the US
33:45 solving the succession problem
48:38 navigating technical revolutions
52:11 the world’s best corporate archive
58:10 the Hundred Percent Club
1:04:50 what Watson would have done in 2020
What can we learn from the greatest CEO of the 20th Century? IBM is no longer cool, but Thomas J. Watson built a company that was more dominant than any around today.
Kevin Maney wrote the book on Watson and shares his lessons learned.
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Emil Michael: The State of Entrepreneurship in America
Emil was Chief Business Officer at Uber. He raised billions of dollars, drove international expansion, and managed a "regulatory revolution" for rideshare.
00:00 intro
00:42 regulatory capture
03:23 why we can’t build anything
09:25 software culture in America
11:20 “Uber for X” opportunities
17:07 winner-take-most markets
30:45 self driving cars and Uber
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58:28 what Emil is doing now
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Kevin Maney | How Thomas Watson built the company of the 20th Century
Published 2 Oct 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You did, right. And again, this is what like, he, one of the things I think he did well was he, he looked at every situation as what's the opportunity here. Yeah. And, um, so World War II comes along and, um, and, you know, I, you know, government was contracting with businesses to make war. […]
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