Rocky Aoki Is An Elite Businessman

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Many of us dream, "the American dream," but few of us live it. Well, Benihana founder Rocky Aoki definitely lived it in every way and more. He used his vision, drive and ingenuity to create the dankest restaurant for birthdays, first dates, and Strider Wilson's first job.

Sources:

Businessinser.com “How Steve Aoki’s Wrestler Dad Turned Benihana into a Multimillion Dollar Empire” by Jack Houston and Irene Anna Kim, Fortune.com “12 Incredbile Things about Benihana Founder Rocky Aoki”, Benihana.com, Wikipedia.org, Thehustle.com Cocaine Boats and Backgammon: The Insane Life of Rocky Aoki Benihana Founder by Wes Schlagenhoff

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0:00.0	friggin what up dude um strider wilson i'm the host of this podcast that's mine going to be called
0:06.5	history is nice freaking is dang with strunner wilson dragness from the pond friggin what up.
0:22.0	Welcome back to another dank app of history is dank.
0:26.2	I'm your host, Strider Chilson.
0:28.2	Just giving myself a nice little pat on the back today.
0:30.2	You know you've got to practice self-love.
0:31.9	I mentioned on last ep that I broke in the drill factory and let me tell you,
0:35.7	like an old baseball glove glove put some oil in that
0:38.9	thing ran it over with the car broke it in i'm ready to freaking patrol the hot corner of my drill
0:46.1	factory feeling good loving it we got aaron on the sticks what up aaron what up chilling
0:52.7	um let's see dude freaking a little personal history my you know i mentioned my gf and i are What up, Aaron? What up? Chilling.
0:56.4	Let's see, dude, freaking a little personal history.
0:59.1	You know, I mentioned my GF and I, and our new abode, dude.
1:00.3	We're freaking loving it, dude.
1:00.9	Nice.
1:06.1	Modern, freaking, you know, not decor, but like design in there.
1:06.9	It's all remodeled.
1:08.1	Everything right now I'm learning.
1:12.4	Everything right now, it's white walls on gray. It's white, on gray, very neutral. So you basically, whatever style you are, you can make it happen in that
1:18.0	space. That's what's going on in the apartment world right now. I guess you could say in the rental
1:23.3	housing world right now. I should know I have a face for real estate. Six-two basic white dude.
1:30.7	That's a real estate build, if I've ever heard of one, you know. Cackies, they just fit.
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