Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Actually, one of my favorite conversations I had recently was with Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar.
If you haven't listened to that conversation I had with him on my other show, you definitely should listen to it.
And one of the most fascinating things that Ed Catmull told me about was the fact that in the 10 years when Pixar was public, so it goes public, they're a public company for 10 years before they're acquired by Disney.
He says that Steve Jobs fired two members of the Pixar board.
And the reason that he...
Fired them, surprised most people, because they never disagreed with Steve.
And Steve's point was, if they agree with me, they're serving no purpose.
So therefore, they can't be on the board.
And again, Warburg says this to a bunch of other merchant bakers.
They want differing opinions.
And another thing that Warburg says is that influence is more important than power.
Another thing he says, men of talent are often complex and hard to understand.
When building his company, he prioritized youth.
If you listen to my episode on the founder of Honda last week or two weeks ago, the founder of Honda would repeat this over and over again.
He believed that you had to hire young people and you had to give them real authority to change the company.
Warburg says very similar things, calls this youth and team spirit.
Warburg's organization reflects his innermost belief in youth and the team spirit.
Youth, to Warburg, means just that, men in their late 20s.
He collects able young people with the same enthusiasm that other rich men show for old paintings.
Warburg calls youth the greatest strength of our firm.
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