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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

Aug 12, 2018

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Is There a Freedom to Make Your Own Way in the World?

02:27

Levi Strauss, the Jew Law

03:01

The Life of Levi Strauss

02:29

Introduction

2min

Is There a Way to Encourage People to Leave Ratings and Reviews on Podcasts?

2min

Levi Strauss, the Jew Law

3min

The Jewish Law in Bavaria

2min

I Will Share the Fate That Has Been Assignmented to Me in America

2min

Is There a Freedom to Make Your Own Way in the World?

2min

Entrepreneurship

2min

The New York Dry Goods Book Review

2min

The Gold Rush - A Metaphor for the Technology Revolution

3min

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The Hole in the Market

3min

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The Wizard of Menlo Park by Thomas Edison

4min

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Getting to California, Path, Dangerous and Strategies

2min

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How to Get to the American River in the 1950s

3min

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How Levi Survives the Gold Rush and Gets to San Francisco

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Levi Strauss - The Annals of San Francisco

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San Francisco's Business During the Great Depression

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I Love Numbers and I Love Them All the Time

2min

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During the Gold Rush, People Paid in Gold Dust

2min

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The Cost of Living in the Early Gold Rush Years

3min

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Levi's Strauss's Financial Panic

2min

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Levi's Loss of C

3min

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Levi Strauss and the Blue Jeans

3min

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Jacob Davis, the Inventor of Jeans

4min

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How to Patent Your New Pants

2min

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Levi's, There You Go, We're Going to Use That Word Right Now

2min

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Levi and Jacob's Patent Rounded Work Pants

2min

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San Francisco Millionaires - Books Are the Original Hyperlinks

2min

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How Levi and Strauss Company Built a Massive Company

3min

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There Is a Technological Revolution in the Domain of Video and Audio

3min

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Podcasts Give You the Ability to Understand Information Without Reading

1min

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Podcast Redistribution Is a Great Way to Show Some Wisdom and Personality That Levi Had

2min

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The Life of Levi Strauss

2min

What I learned from reading Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World by Lynn Downey

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[0:01] Levi was one of the men who set that firm foundation

[17:35] I do not have at this time a specific occupation...I will share the fate that has been assigned to me

[22:29] Enduring hardship for the ultimate goal

[29:24] A hole in the market

[42:00] Levi starts his business cold

[54:18] The dangers of shipping by sea

[1:04:42] Inventing Jeans by accident

[1:10:00] Overnight success 20 years in the making

[1:17:40] How Levi was able to serve customers who were illiterate or spoke another language

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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

Is There a Freedom to Make Your Own Way in the World?

Levi Strauss, the Jew Law

The Life of Levi Strauss

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