Ali gives away a copy of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog with a message from him to a viewer who comments with an emoji and their Instagram username (2019)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2019-08-06) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali gives away a copy of Alex Banayan's The Third Door to a viewer who comments with their Instagram username (2019)
About: Shoe Dog, Instagram
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-02 | asked | Ali gives away his copy of Shoe Dog: viewers comment with an emoji at the start and their Instagram username, and he will message one winner on Instagram and send the book with a little message from him in the front. | Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal 00:10:55 |
| 2019-08-06 | result reported | Ali names Katerina Stoisavljevic (as heard) as the winner of the copy of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog from last month's (July 2019) giveaway; he will ask for her address on Instagram and post the book within a few months. | Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Surprised last month (June 2019) that Bad Blood was a good nonfiction book, Ali decided to give other nonfiction a try, an autobiography, and around then someone recommended Phil Knight's Shoe Dog. — 00:02:33
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali calls Shoe Dog, the memoir of Nike founder Phil Knight, really good: not a standard business book full of advice but the story of how the Nike brand started. — 00:03:14
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali agrees with Warren Buffett's blurb on Shoe Dog that Phil Knight is a gifted storyteller. — 00:03:14
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Shoe Dog tells how Phil Knight's love of running, and a coach who cared about running shoes, led him to go to Japan to have a type of shoe made, and how the company he started eventually led to Nike. — 00:03:14
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali finds Shoe Dog well written and gripping, never braggy: an inspiring memoir of how much hard work and grind goes into building something like Nike. — 00:03:44
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali never thought he would cry at the end of a nonfiction book, but the ending of Shoe Dog had him properly in tears. — 00:04:05
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali finds the epilogue of Shoe Dog particularly powerful: since we all want to be rich to some extent, hearing one of the world's richest men say what being rich is actually like is very interesting. — 00:04:05
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Shoe Dog also covers the Nike sweatshop scandal, which Ali thinks spread through the company about ten years ago. (hedged) — 00:04:31
- 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali fully agrees with Bill Gates's blurb that Shoe Dog is an amazing tale; he loves the book so much that he has bought it for a friend and started gifting it to people. — 00:04:31