Sean Feeney - Reinventing the Restaurant Business - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
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Welcome to this Classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past ten years published once a month. These are n of one conversations with n of one people. Sean Feeney makes you wanna be a better person, friend, and leader. His story never gets old and his out of the box thinking will have you questioning the rule book. I hope you enjoy it. Hello and welcome everyone. I'm Patrick O'Shaughnessy and this is Invest Like the Best. This show is an open ended exploration of markets, ideas, stories, and strategies that will help you better invest both your time and your money. If you en
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In 02/2003, I started in finance. 02/2009, I was married and moved into an apartment in the West Village in a townhouse where there was three apartments in that building. My wife and I lived on the Top Floor and right below us, a chef moved in. And I was a massive food fanatic. I think the best I was ever at in finance was at restaurants every single night. And I had just read an article about chef Missy Robbins moving back from Chicago to New York to take over a restaurant called a Voce. And when I saw her the first time in our building, I was like, Oh my God, you're Missy Robbins? Aren't you
Can you talk about the role of the word we've been using when you and I have talked is genius that people have, because I think the way you've articulated everyone having some form of genius and the ways to chip away and find that thing and then embrace it. I like how you tell this story because this is not an easy transition. We can talk lots more about the hardships in the early days, but if you ask a New Yorker today about your restaurants, everyone will know them or have been to them or wish they'd been to them or whatever. And so the outcome can be so powerful, but it's always hard to emb
It was September 2832, opening night of the Barclays Center, Jay Z. And I'll never forget this moment where he looks out into the crowd, said, Everybody has a genius. And started calling people out in the crowd, you with the yellow hat. I see you. You've got a genius. You are a genius. And I just thought it was so cool at that time. That was 2012. Then when Lilia opened, and I felt something different in me. I thought back to that time where I heard him say everybody has a genius level talent. And I started thinking about that, and I started looking at other people who have felt a certain way
I love the descriptions you've given me of the early experiences on some of the restaurant floors and just seeing the magic that she created, that you created together. I also love the
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