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Robert Smith on Unfettered Conversations with A and Z

May 13, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Soffer Company's Work Over the Last 20 Years Has Really Changed
01:38 • 3min
3
The Life of Seran Diputy
05:06 • 3min
4
The Most Persistent Engineer Ever
08:21 • 2min
5
The Coolest Project I Worked on Was an Operational Amplifier
10:05 • 2min
6
Chemical Engineering
12:28 • 3min
7
What's Your Favorite Food Growing Up?
15:08 • 3min
8
The Importance of O True Media in Investing
17:52 • 5min
9
What's the Idea Behind Vista Te Granston?
23:08 • 3min
10
The Third Phase of Where Vista Is Right
26:35 • 2min
11
Those Are the Businesses That Should Liberate Free Cash Flows
28:05 • 2min
12
How Did Robert Smith's Company Evolve Over the Years?
29:59 • 4min
13
The Joy of Managing People
34:05 • 3min
14
Is There a Difference Between a Blue Chip and a White Chip?
37:03 • 2min
15
Do You Think the Personality Tests in Business Are More Common?
39:20 • 3min
16
Are You Interested in Sales Training?
41:59 • 2min
17
You've Got a Quantitative Approach to Hiring
43:59 • 2min
18
What's Your Bigest Goals for the Next 10 Years?
46:01 • 3min
19
Philanthropy and Community Leadership
49:15 • 2min
20
Music Is Important, You It's Important to Be
51:15 • 2min
21
The Highest Leverage Points in Philanthropy
52:51 • 3min
22
I Think It's an Important Part of Who We Are as Business Leaders
55:35 • 3min
23
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here, Right?
58:18 • 3min
24
The Morehouse Gift, You Know?
01:00:56 • 2min
25
Carnegie Philanthropy
01:03:21 • 2min
26
The Giving Pledge
01:05:11 • 2min
27
A, a Tank.
01:06:45 • 19sec