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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I think the most telling quote of all is when Akio Morita passes away many, many years later in 1999, somewhere around there.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…But it really sets up the business relations between Sony, US corporations, and the overall business environment in Japan and America. Maybe there has never been any other company, except SoftBank, that bridges the two. There are American executives in Sony. At one point, one of them becomes the CEO of Sony, Howard Stringer. I don't think that happens in any other Japanese corporations. Both the American-Japanese bridge and the pure focus on the Japanese economy. If you think about what Sony did for Japan as a nation, it was unprecedented. I think the most telling quote of all is when Akio Morita passes away many, many years later in 1999, somewhere around there. The Prime Minister of Japan referred to him as the engine that pulled the Japanese economy. That is an astonishing quote. Can you imagine a sitting US president referring to a US-based founder CEO as the engine that pulled the US economy? You can't make that big of an impact. You wouldn't even say that about Steve Jobs.…
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