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Adi Dassler

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2020-02-03

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1. “I don't know, he told the visitors. I'm the gardener. He clad in his three striped sweatpants he tended to look the part. Adi once confessed to his friend that he didn't have a clue how many factories Adidas owned, and frankly he didn't care. By nineteen seventy eight the company he founded in his mother's washroom employed nearly three thousand people in Germany alone. About one hundred eighty thousand pairs of three striped shoes were produced daily. I then Adi had been advised to slow down. He had been gently told after a medical checkup that he should cut back on soccer and tennis, which he still regularly played.”

   2020-02-03 · Founders · #109 Adi Dassler (Adidas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “So it got so bad between them that their relationship was never the same. I think right before he died, they might have reconciled somewhat, but it's just too late. So I want to talk to you more about, you know, what's fascinating to me is this level of focus Audi had that he maintained his entire life. It says, Adi continued to walk around with his notepad and to tinker in his workshop. The obsession that drove him perpetually to seek improvements for his shoes never faded. Over five decades, he registered nearly seven hundred patents to his name. In his seventies, Adi Dasar continued to shy away from the honors that were bestowed upon him. When strangers turned up at his gates, hoping to catch a glimpse of Adi Dassler, he turned them away unceremoniously. This is somebody talking about something they observed. One day he was walking his dog in the compound when someone called to the fence asking for Adi Dosler.”

   2020-02-03 · Founders · #109 Adi Dassler (Adidas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “All right, so I'll just spend the rest of the time talking about Audi. Gonna go back in time. Audi still alive. He made like, he never stopped inventing and improving, right? Today he died. And I learned a bunch of stuff. Like Muhammad Ali, like Adi personally made Muhammad Ali's shoes, boots, I guess they called boxing boots or whatever the case is. Like he'd listened to what they needed. And it was fascinating. Even like he's running, you know, owns this giant company. He's still working on an individual level to understand the needs of his customers. And Muhammad Ali was his customers. It's fabulous. And there's just one sentence of the book that just made me smile because it talks about the level of Adi's craftsmanship when it comes to the like.”

   2020-02-03 · Founders · #109 Adi Dassler (Adidas) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source