tried to win the contest. i write about them in the book. one of them was the very light car. it was so light you could push it across the floor with your thumb. it was passionate german man named oliver kuttner. his childhood dream was basically to be a race car driver. he wanted to professionally drive race cars but eventually got too fat to fit into the race car so he became obsessed with this. the most beautiful things in the world are those from which all excess weight has been eliminated, a henry ford quote, and oliver believed this with total devotion so he reconstituted the car from the ground up down to the lug nuts and even the ones that hold the wheel onto the car very light like three to ten times lighter than a normal lug nut. he was completely insane. he reconstituted the entire car. brilliantly insane it sounds like. yeah. i love the story of the westerly high school team that
bankruptcy, ford escaped bankruptcy. one of the things we should talk about is how ford did that and they did it by being really smart and ahead of the curve. mike barnicle, you look at the city we re in right now, the city we were in last night, looking around, detroit s an extraordinary city, has an unbelievably important place in american history. i love the henry ford quote we talk about all the time when somebody told an older henry ford you don t understand the modern age and he said, son, i invented the modern age. that modern age was invented at ford and now look. we ve got some good news. oh ford bringing jobs back. we may be figuring out a way to do this right, right here, and that can be transferred across the country. that s it. the history of detroit is in part the history of america. huge part of the history of america. the democracy you alluded to in world war ii and detroit today, over the last ten years, the state of michigan has lost over
this is the wingtip board of directors? this is my fictitious board of directors. the people that inspired me. oh, this is funny. let me see how many of these i know. billy ray valentine. you re missing my head of sales here which is big tom callahan from tommy boy. this is perfectly in line with the way ami has grown the company. he s primarily driven by his own instinct. are you a focus group of one then? i always loved the henry ford quote if i asked the public what they wanted they would have told me faster horses. i constantly listen to customer feedback, member feedback employee feedback but at the end of the day i m always going to trust my gut the most. and his gut is telling him it s time to expand. he hopes to have wingtips in cities across the country. we ll hopefully be open in l.a. this time next year and the hope is that we re in five cities by 2020. another business in san francisco, this one a restaurant, has also come up