Founders

Aug 15/2022

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  What I learned from reading The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo ----Come build relationships at the Founders Conference on July 29th-July 31st in Scotts Valley, California----Learning from history is a form of leverage. —Charlie Munger. Founders Notes gives you the super power to[...]
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  What I learned from reading Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall. ----Come build relationships at the Founders Conference on July 29th-July 31st in Scotts Valley, California ----Learning from history is a form of leverage. —Charlie Munger. Founders Notes gives you the super power to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand.Get access[...]
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  What I learned from reading Driven From Within by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil. ----Relationships run the world: Build relationships at Founders events----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any[...]
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  Relationships run the world. Come build relationships with other founders, investors, and high value people at a Founders Event.   
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  What I learned from reading The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy. ----Relationships run the world: Build relationships at Founders events----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever[...]
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  What I learned from reading Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders You can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any question and SAGE will read all[...]
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  What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any question and SAGE will read all my notes, highlights,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any question and SAGE will read all my notes, highlights, and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for FoundersSome questions other subscribers asked SAGE: I need some unique ideas on how to find new customers. What advice do you have for me?What are some strategies that Cornelius Vanderbilt used against his competitors?How did Edwin Land find[...]
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  What I learned from reading Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: Being Very Good Is No Good,You Have to Be Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Good by David Ogilvy and Ogivly & Mather. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders NotesSome questions other subscribers asked SAGE: I need some unique ideas on how to[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----(1:00) This is a 100 page biography of the human species(1:00) The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant (Full Set) (2:30) Generations of men establish[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----(0:01) Vanderbilt was only interested in two things: making money and winning(3:00) Cornelius Vanderbilt, the descendant of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover and Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim Grover. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----(3:00) What I am giving you is insight into the mentality of those who have[...]
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  What I learned from reading Decoded by Jay Z. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----(1:39) I would practice from the time I woke in the morning until I went to sleep(2:10) Even back then I though I was the best.(2:57) Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography  (Founders #219)(4:32) Belief becomes[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Days of Duveen by S.N. Behrman. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Founders merch available at the Founders shop----Patrick and I are looking for partners. If you are building B2B products get in touch here. ----(0:01) Duveen noticed that Europe[...]
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  What I learned from reading Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money by Sally Helgesen.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Founders merch available at the Founders shop----Vesto shows you all of your company's finances in one view. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder[...]
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  What I learned from reading Roots of Strategy by Thomas R. Phillips and Napoleon and Modern War by Napoleon and Col. Lanza. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference----(0:01) Napoleon fought more battles than Alexander, Hannibal,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Insull: The Rise and Fall of A Billionaire Utility Tycoon by Forrest McDonald. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference----(0:01) Insull had been in the electric business as long as there[...]
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  What I learned from reading How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference----(0:01) I'm what's called a moneymaker. I've started five companies from scratch—seven if you include[...]
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  What I learned from reading the transcripts of Young Oprah on Her Life and Career and Oprah on Career, Life and Leadership. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference----(1:00) Oprah fired her agent and replaced him[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Red Bull Story by Wolfgang Fürweger and Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac by Duff McDonald. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference----(1:30) "In literal financial terms, our sports teams are not[...]
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  What I learned from reading Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(3:00) Churchill by Paul Johnson. (Founders #225) Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson. (Founders #252)Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson. (Founders #240)Heroes: From Alexander[...]
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  What I learned from reading Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior and Creators by Paul Johnson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(4:00) The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai. (Founders #296)(5:00)[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Les Schwab Pride In Performance: Keep It Going! by Les Schwab. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(8:00) I didn't know how to ride a bike. We never had one. All the other young kids delivered newspapers on a bike. He's[...]
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  What I learned from reading the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger. ----Listen to this incredible conversation between Charlie Munger and John Collison on Invest Like The Best. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(2:00) The practical wisdom of Poor Charlie's[...]
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  Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger.Order the new updated version of Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. MungerCharlie Munger episodes:#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett &[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike. ----I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $500 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by[...]
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  What I learned from reading Ted Turner's Autobiography.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Listen to Art of Investing #4 David Senra Lessons from the Founder Historian. ----(9:00) My net worth dropped by about 67 million per week, or nearly 10 million per day, every day[...]
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  What I learned from reading Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell. ----1. If you need tax prep and bookkeeping check out betterbookkeeping.com/founders. It's like having a full time CFO and super cheap grandpa sitting on your shoulder. 2. Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder Ben[...]
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  What I learned from reading How Larry Gagosian Reshaped The Art World by Patrick Radden Keefe. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(4:00) The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them.(5:45) We think[...]
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  What I learned from reading The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son by John D. Rockefeller. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----(5:00) My Influence had been extended to all corners of the oil industry.  If I say that I have the power[...]
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  What I learned from reading Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[2:08] Answering to no one is the ultimate situation.[3:02] Twitter thread on Michael Bloomberg by Neckar.Substack.com[5:28] We never made the error that so many others have: mistaking their product for[...]
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  What I learned from reading Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way by Ryan White and A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.----I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----Vesto makes it easy for you[...]
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  What I learned from reading Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg and  Herb’s Heroes by David Sanders. ----Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book----Listen to Invest Like The Best #343 David Senra: In The Service of Founders ----Vesto makes it easy for[...]
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  What I learned from reading Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr.---I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle[...]
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  What I learned from reading Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden. ----I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.----I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard. ---Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder Ben and tell him David from Founders sent you. Here's the legal disclosures to make[...]
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  What I learned from the first 6 years of making Founders.I recorded a new episode with Patrick. It should be out soon. Follow Invest Like the Best in your favorite podcast app so you don't miss it. 
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  What I learned from reading The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Alistair Urquhart.---Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder Ben and tell him David from Founders sent you. Here's the legal disclosures to make the lawyers happy:Vesto Advisors,[...]
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  Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! 
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  What I learned from rereading Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull. ---I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/---Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Bugatti Story by L’Ebe Bugatti.---I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/---Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder Ben and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson. ---Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book---(2:20) Among the masters of Parisian fashion, Balenciaga was the greatest.(3:00) Christian Dior called Balenciaga “the master of us all" and Coco Chanel said that Balenciaga was[...]
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  What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham.---One of the best podcasts I've heard this year: Listen to Invest Like The Best #336 Jeremy Giffon Special Situations in Private Markets ---Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book---(2:00) All you need to do is find something[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone.---EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy with the Pod 3. Get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/---One of the best podcasts I've heard this year: Listen to Invest Like The Best #336 Jeremy[...]
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  What I learned from reading Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris Jr.---Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny is looking to partner with venture backed startups and helping you pivot to profitability. Get in touch with Andrew and his partners[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan and The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King by Zach Baron.---EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy with the Pod 3. Go to eightsleep.com/founders/---Listen to Invest Like The Best #336 Jeremy Giffon[...]
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  What I learned from reading Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson. ---(3:30) Disney made use of the new technologies throughout his creative life.(4:45) Lists of Paul Johnson books and episodes: Churchill by Paul Johnson. (Founders #225) Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle by Paul Johnson.(Founders[...]
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  What I learned from reading Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby.---(5:07) His competence was exceeded only by his confidence.(5:58) He worked at the game, and if he wasn't good at something, he had the motivation to be the best at it.(6:33) It seemed that he discovered the secret quite early in his competitive life:[...]
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  What I learned from reading Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak by Barbara Outland Baker.---EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy. Go to eightsleep.com/founders/Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny provides quick and straightforward cash exits for Founders. Get in touch by[...]
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  What I learned from reading Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Paul Barrett. ---Meter: Meter is the easiest way for your business to get fast, secure, and reliable internet and WiFi in any commercial space. Go to meter.com/founders---Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny provides quick and straightforward cash exits for[...]
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  What I learned from reading Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses by David Landes.Supporters of this episode:EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy with the Pod 3. Go to eightsleep.com/founders/Meter: Meter is the easiest way for your business to get fast, secure, and reliable internet and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy. ----This episode is brought to you by Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny provides quick and straightforward exits for Founders. Get in touch by emailing hi@tiny.com----This episode is brought to you by Meter: Meter is the easiest way[...]
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  What I learned from reading Working by Robert Caro. ----Listen to one of my favorite podcasts: Invest Like the Best: Sam Hinkie: Find Your People ----[3:40] You can't get very deep into Johnson's life without realizing that the central fact of his life was his relationship with his father.[8:00] It was the hill country and his father's[...]
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  What I learned from reading Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary by Robert Price. ----[6:50] He believed in developing strong operating efficiencies, and he continually emphasized passing on savings to customers.[8:48] It's pretty incredible to think about that Sol's ideas have created trillions of dollars of value.[11:18] You can always understand the son by the story of his[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors by Karen Linder. ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts: Invest Like the Best and listen to episode 326 Alexis Rivas—A New Blueprint for Homebuilding ----Episode outline:Mr. Buffett, we're going to put our competitors through a meat grinder. — Buffett:[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection of His Written and Spoken Words edited by J. Christopher Herold. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 326 Alexis Rivas----(3:45)[...]
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  What I learned from reading Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 326 Alexis Rivas----[3:00] He was someone no one had ever seen or will ever see again.[5:20] You can always understand the son by the story of his father. The[...]
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  What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson for the 4th time. You can also find the book on Book Finder. ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 293 David Senra: Passion and Pain ----Episode Outline: [4:30] Invention: A Life by James Dyson (Founders #205)[2:41] I[...]
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  What I learned from reading Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.comYou can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any question and SAGE will read[...]
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  What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell and reading Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of The man Who Played a Real-Life Game of Monopoly and Won the Largest Real Estate Empire in History by William Zeckendorf. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.comYou can read, reread, and search all my[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best !----[3:45] One of my favorite sayings about entrepreneurship is: If you[...]
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  David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert — of the Acquired podcast — invited me to San Francisco for a discussion on our mutual obsession: spending every waking hour studying the history of entrepreneurship and sharing those lessons on our podcasts. ----Follow Acquired in your podcast player here or at Acquired.fm This episode is brought to you by: Tiny:[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best !----[1:16] I am the boss. I shall be here on Monday[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Tao of Charlie Munger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best !(5:45) The blueprint he gave me was simple: Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best ![3:00] He could think quicker and along more individual and original lines than any of them.[4:00] John D:[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best ![2:00] I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig by Jerry Shields. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best !----[2:00] Obsessed with privacy, Ludwig pays a major public relations firm fat fees to keep his name out of the papers.[4:00] [...]
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  What I learned from reading The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by signing up for Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best !----Do our products offer something unique?Customer satisfaction second to none is the[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 292 The Business[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Dream of Solomeo: My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism by Brunello Cucinelli.----This episode is brought to you by: Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Quick and straightforward exits for Founders.----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode[...]
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  What I learned from reading Ralph Lauren: The Man Behind the Mystique by Jeffrey Trachtenberg.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode 311 John Fio — Creating Magic for Consumers, episode 307[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First Forty Years of Britain s Most Prestigious Company by Peter Pugh.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best and listen to episode Mitch[...]
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  What I learned from reading All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense by Peter Bevelin. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of[...]
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  What I learned from reading American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune by Greg Steinmetz.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] A series of spectacular financial triumphs had made Gould fabulously rich. At age thirty-six, he was the most notorious businessman[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best  and check out these great[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best  ----(1:01) 3 part series on Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick:Meet You In Hell: Andrew Carnegie[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters (for the 3rd time!) Read Jeff's letters in book form: Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos or for free online: Amazon Investor Relations----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow one of my favorite podcasts Invest Like The Best  [2:01] We're going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing[...]
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  What I learned from reading Copy This!: How I turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 square feet into a company called Kinkos by Paul Orfalea.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Follow Invest Like The Best in your favorite podcast player hereTwo episodes I recommend: Paul Orfalea[...]
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  What I learned from reading Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] He was also a compulsive writer, using hotel stationery, scraps of paper, cigarette cartons, napkins—anything that came to hand.[0:01] Decoded by Jay Z. (Founders #238)[1:00][...]
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  What I learned from reading What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company by Barnett Helzberg Jr.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[5:00]  Then, right there on the sidewalk I told one of the[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[4:01] Jobs's return to Apple 12 years later shows how the most important task in business-the creation of new[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas From The Computer Age by Paul Graham ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:00] How To Make Wealth by Paul Graham [4:01] Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can[...]
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  What I learned from reading Paul Graham’s essays.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:01] You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You have but that you know isn't to do[...]
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  What I learned from reading Paul Graham’s essays.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:52] My father told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I enjoyed it.[5:49] Do what you love doesn't mean, do what you would like to do most this[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:23] Maybe somewhere in a footnote, it would be mentioned that he came from nothing, grew up poor, dropped out of high school, and made himself three or[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----Episode outline: If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to[...]
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  What I learned from reading Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant by Roland Lazenby.  ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[9:15] Notes from The Redeem Team documentary:30 seconds into the first practice Kobe is diving for loose balls. That set the tone.Players go clubbing. Come back at 5:30am and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[7:31] Acts of importance were the measure of his life and they are the reason that his life deserves study today.[8:10] Suspicious of big institutions Bush[...]
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  What I learned from reading Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Outline: Pieces of the Action offers his hard-won lessons on how to operate and manage effectively within complex organizations and drive ambitious, unprecedented programs to fruition.Stripe Press Books:The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell[...]
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  What I learned from reading Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[6:37] I have an embedded sense of urgency. What I can’t figure out is why so many other people don’t have it.[6:50] I was willing[...]
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  What I learned from reading Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business by Mark Robichaux.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Outline:Thread of highlights from Cable Cowboy by @LoadlinefinanceMalone was stalwart about building long term value through leveraged cash flow. Earnings didn’t count. He wasn’t[...]
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  What I learned from reading Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Outline:  He had known how to gather interest, faith, and hope in the success of his projects.I think of this episode as part 5 in a 5 part series that started on episode[...]
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  What I learned from rereading My Life and Work by Henry Ford.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[7:45] True education is gained through the discipline of life.[8:00] Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg. (Founders #263)[9:40] Reading this book is like having[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[3:11] His mind was never a captive of reality.[5:16] A complete list of every Founders episode on Steve Jobs and[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----(0:01) The most obvious parallel is to Apple Computer.Both companies specialized in relentless, obsessive refinement of their technologies. Both were established close to great research universities to attract talent.Both fetishized superior,[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:01] Why is Polaroid a nutty place? To start with, it’s run by a man who has more brains than anyone has a right to.[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator by Rich Cohen.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:20] The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen (Founders #255)[2:42] You Can Negotiate Anything: How to Get What[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1 and Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2 by Dee Hock.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:39] Quotes: Abraham Lincoln | Pythagoras | Mark Twain | Socrates[...]
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  What I learned from rereading One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:00] I feel compelled to open my life to new possibilities.[2:54] Life is a magnificent, mysterious Odyssey to be experienced.[3:12] One From Many (Founders #42)[3:30] Autobiography[...]
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  What I learned from reading Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:51] No one could block his way and he didn't have any time to waste.[2:38] Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —Bob Dylan[3:01] The best talk on YouTube for[...]
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  What I learned from reading Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons by Edward J. Renehan Jr.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:40] John D: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke. (Founders #254)[3:46] From the back[...]
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  What I learned from reading Explore/Create My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark by Richard Garriott.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[6:49] Richard Garriott’s house[7:39] Past episodes on video game creatorsSid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier (Founders#195)Masters of Doom:[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations by Larry Tye.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:54] The very substance of American thought was mere clay to be molded by the savvy public relations practitioner.[1:48] Bernays saved every scrap[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:47] This story can shock and infuriate us, and it does. But I found it invigorating, too. It told me that the[...]
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  What I learned from reading John D: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:07] He transmitted messages in code and secrecy covered all of his operations.[0:39]  Rockefeller compared himself to Napoleon.[2:20] He could think quicker and along more individual and[...]
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  What I learned from reading When Money Was In Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street by June Breton Fisher.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:30] The Uses of Adversity by Malcolm Gladwell[2:40] Business Breakdowns: Goldman Sachs: Fortune Favors The Old[3:00] Men can learn from[...]
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  What I learned from reading Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:54] I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. — Steve Jobs In His Own Words by George Beahm. (Founders #249)[1:20] Churchill by Paul Johnson. (Founders #225)Heroes: From[...]
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  What I learned from reading Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward Larson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:59] Both men have been called The First American but they were friends first and never rivals.[1:32] Leadership at this level is a rare quality and well-worth study.[1:53] The Autobiography[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg Steinmetz.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:55] The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Naval Ravikant and Eric Jorgenson. (Founders #191)[5:05] It is well known[...]
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  ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----On Steve Jobs#5 Steve Jobs: The Biography#19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader#76 Return To The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and The Creation of[...]
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  What I learned from reading I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words by George Beahm.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:05]On Steve Jobs#5 Steve Jobs: The Biography#19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader#76 Return To The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:15]  Rockefeller trained himself to reveal as little as possible[4:22] Once Rockefeller set his mind to something he brought awesome powers of concentration to bear.[4:44] My whole life has[...]
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  What I learned from reading Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:14] The building of the railroad across the ocean was a colossal piece of work born of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Constellation Software Inc. President's Letters by Mark Leonard.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:10] Business lessons from Mark Leonard by Tren Griffin[2:11] Newsletter: Liberty’s Highlights The Serendipity Engine: Investing & business, science & technology, and the arts.[2:59] I don’t like anyone telling me what to[...]
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  What I learned from reading Rick Rubin: In the Studio by Jake Brown.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Rick Rubin on Lex Fridman Podcast #275Rick Rubin on The Peter Attia Drive Podcast #57Shangri-La DocumentaryRick’s podcast Broken Record[1:39] Decoded by Jay Z. (Founders #238)[3:19] Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.[3:31] His goal[...]
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  What I learned from reading In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:03] This is an absorbing case study on how a family business came to be at the center of its own cheerful cult.[2:42][...]
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  What I learned from reading Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur by Francis Greenburger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:26]  I can be extremely stubborn when I have a hunch about something.[3:31] I knew all too well that markets can turn on a dime.[5:40] Money that had once[...]
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  What I learned from reading Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life by Michael Schumacher.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:49] You can always understand the son by the story of his father. The story of the father is embedded in the son.[5:33] I had spent a lifetime with a[...]
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  What I learned from reading Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies by Lawrence Goldstone.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:07] The Wright Brothers (Founders #239)[3:47] Avoid any activity that distracts you from improving the quality of your product and the quality of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:52] Churchill by Paul Johnson (Founders #225)[2:15] A life of constant hard work, lived at the highest possible level of creative concentration.[3:05] Mozart worked relentlessly.[3:56] He started earlier than anyone else and was still[...]
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  ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----On Steve Jobs#5 Steve Jobs: The Biography#19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader#76 Return To The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and The Creation of[...]
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  What I learned from rereading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[3:40] Relentlessly Resourceful by Paul Graham[4:11] If I were running a startup, this would be the phrase I'd tape to the mirror. "Make something people want" is the destination, but "Be relentlessly resourceful"[...]
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  What I learned from reading Decoded by Jay Z. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:39] I would practice from the time I woke in the morning until I went to sleep[2:10] Even back then I though I was the best.[2:57] Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography  (Founders #219)[4:32] Belief becomes[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:02] Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime (Founders #236)[3:22] This is a cautionary[...]
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  What I learned from reading Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime by Nims Purja.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[3:36] Walking out on my career felt risky, but I was prepared to gamble everything for my ambition.[4:20] Your extremes are my normal.[12:04][...]
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  What I learned from reading To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:34] The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley (Founders #233)[3:42] Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:56] The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. (Founders #179)[5:45] We just got after it and stayed after it.[6:06] Foxes and Hedgehogs[6:39] Hedgehogs may not[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:50] Your life will be shaped by the things that you create and the people you make them with.[2:45] A Mind at Play:[...]
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  What I learned from reading Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror--As Told By His Original Biographers by Arrian, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius Rufus. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:28] Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulleby[...]
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  What I learned from reading Time to Make the Donuts: The Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey by William Rosenberg.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[5:18] The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley[5:30] A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented[...]
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  What I learned from reading Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[3:19] Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Founders #141) [3:28] Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Founders #193) [4:37] Lucille Ball gave me advice about Hollywood. “Just remember, when[...]
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  What I learned from reading Mind Your Own Business: A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life by Sidney Harman----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[3:46] Foxes and Hedgehogs[7:17] The thing with Hedgehogs is that they never give up. They keep at it – and they don’t ever get bored[...]
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  What I learned from reading Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:08] Answering to no one is the ultimate situation.[3:02] Twitter thread on Michael Bloomberg by Neckar.Substack.com[5:28] We never made the error that so many others have: mistaking their product for the device that delivers it.[6:27][...]
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  Here are 10 episodes to start with: #168 Driven: An Autobiography by Larry Miller#171 The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune#219 Anthony Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography#223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend#216 Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett and Lawrence Cunningham.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:39] Founders #88 Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters — All of them![2:36] Buffet and Charlie Munger built this sprawling enterprise by investing in businesses with excellent economic characteristics and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle by Paul Johnson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:55] I have always had a soft spot for those who speak out against the conventional wisdom and who are not afraid to[...]
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  What I learned from reading Churchill by Paul Johnson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[2:09] Churchill never allowed mistakes, disaster, illnesses, unpopularity, and criticism to get him down.[4:19] The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson. (Founders #196)[4:57] He[...]
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  What I learned from reading Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[6:45] The Winston Churchill episode is #196 based on the book The Splendid and The Vile[7:07] Don’t turn your back on he who will not accept defeat.[7:54] The greatest founders in history have[...]
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  What I learned from reading Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend by Joshua M. Greene.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Never give up. Only death is permanent. Everything else can be fixed.I couldn't take such talk about not coming out[...]
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  What I learned from rereading A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Ed Thorp. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----1. The book reveals a thorough, rigorous, methodical person in search of life, knowledge, financial security, and,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[16:02] I had a considerable passion to get rich. Not because I wanted Ferraris—I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it.[26:49] I met the towering[...]
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  What I learned from reading Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by Brock Yates.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:01] Editorial writers around the world groped for words to express what Enzo Ferrari had meant. Many tried to describe him as an automotive pioneer, which he was not;[...]
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  What I learned from reading Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[28:32] All the energy he'd put into trying to destroy himself, he put that into building himself back up. All that negative energy became something else. He became so serious, and[...]
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  What I learned from reading My Turn: A Life of Total Football by Johan Cruyff.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[0:01] I always say you play football with your head; you just use your legs to run.[1:09] I'm not capable of doing something at a low level.[8:45] I'm definitely[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Estée Lauder: A Success Story by Estée Lauder. Watch Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love by Bill Gurley.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[21:14] I sometimes wonder if I had set my[...]
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  What I learned from reading Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of Vans by Paul Van Doren. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----The way we deal with hardship is our legacy. You can accept defeat, or you can overcome it.Quitting Randy's had probably been the biggest stroke of luck[...]
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  What I learned from reading The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb by James Kunetka. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----It is clear that nothing short of a full-speed, all-out attempt would be worthwhile.Once Leslie Groves accepted his new assignment, he[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----1. He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you.2. He refused to accept automatically received truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself.3. Picasso had[...]
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  What I learned from reading Driven From Within by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:55] Players who practice hard when no one is paying attention play well when everyone is watching.[9:47] It's hard, but it's fair. I live by those words. [12:49] To this day,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[5:07] His competence was exceeded only by his confidence.[5:58] He worked at the game, and if he wasn't good at something, he had the motivation to be the best at it.[6:33] It[...]
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  What I learned from reading Onassis: An Extravagant Life by Frank Brady. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----He became one of the richest men in U.S. history ever to be arrested.The epic life of Aristotle Onassis is as mysterious as a tale from ancient Greek mythology and is a[...]
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  What I learned from reading Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----My earliest memory is of imagining I was someone else.By the time I was fourteen the nail in wall would no longer support the weight of the[...]
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  What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Whatever is there, he makes it work.Spielberg once defined his approach to filmmaking by declaring, "I am the audience.""He said, 'I want to be a director.' And I said, 'Well, if you[...]
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  What I learned from reading In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World by Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Ortiz. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.[...]
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  What I learned from reading Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Individuals come and go, but they leave their records and ideas behind them. These become a guide to all who follow.Genius is the art of taking pains. The best ads ask no one to buy.[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Arthur W. Schultz.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----Advertising is a very simple thing. I can give it[...]
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  What I learned from reading Invention: A Life by James Dyson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----This is a story told through a life of creating and developing things, as well as expressing a call to arms for young people to become engineers, creating[...]
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  What I learned from reading Inside Steve's Brian by Leander Kahney.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----1. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.2.[...]
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  What I learned from reading Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital by Spencer Ante. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----1. He was very important because he was the first one to believe there was a future in financing entrepreneurs in[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers From Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett and Peter Bevelin.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Big opportunities come infrequently. When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.Speculation is most dangerous when[...]
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  What I learned from reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Definitive Biography of The Engineer, Visionary, and Great Briton by L.T.C. Rolt.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----1. His career was to him a tremendous adventure.2. I have always made it a rule, which I[...]
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  What I learned from rereading Against The Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson and reading A History of Great Inventions by James Dyson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----1. I am a creator of products, a builder of things, and my name appears love[...]
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  What I learned from reading Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----'When my customers come to me, they like to cross the threshold of some magic place; they feel a satisfaction that is perhaps a[...]
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  What I learned from reading The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets by Niall Ferguson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----A business can only be managed well if one pays as much attention to the smaller business transactions as one does to the larger ones.All[...]
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  What I learned from reading Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild by Amos Elon. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Riches cover a multitude of woes.Only a few crumbling bricks are left today of the dark, foul-smelling alley in Frankfurt where, in the second[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----I  wondered how on earth anyone could have endured it: fifty-seven consecutive nights of bombing, followed[...]
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  What I learned from reading Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Sometimes it takes a misstep to figure out where you should be headed.Each game taught me something, each game was both painful and gratifying in[...]
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  What I learned from reading Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have[...]
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  What I learned from reading Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----I knew I was going to be a bodybuilder. It wasn't simply that either. I would be the best bodybuilder in the world, the greatest.I'm[...]
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  What I learned from reading Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Casey pursued a Spartan business philosophy that emphasized military discipline, drab uniforms, and reliability over flash.I had heard stories about the company's tireless founder. He was[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Naval Ravikant and Eric Jorgenson. Read the book online for free here. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Naval has changed my life for the better, and if you approach the[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Ford generally accepted the responsibilities of his celebrity-he'd worked diligently to cultivate it, realizing early on that his[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Unpublished David Ogilvy by David Ogilvy. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] Will Any Agency Hire This Man? He is 38, and unemployed. He dropped out of college.He has been a cook, a salesman, a diplomatist and a farmer. He[...]
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  What I learned from Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys by Joe Coulombe.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] I wrote this book to help entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. That's why there's a lack of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] In a drama that would seem fake were it not so horrifying, Einstein’s brain ended up being, for more than four decades, a wandering relic.[4:22][...]
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  What I learned from rereading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[2:02] I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, short as a morning run, and I wanted[...]
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  What I learned from reading Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class by Luke Barr. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[1:00] The words echoed in his head, even now. The idea that they should be seen as[...]
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  What I learned from reading Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy by Isadore Sharp.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] When I built my first hotel I knew nothing about the hotel business. [4:28] He refused to settle for the pragmatic dictum of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[13:50] He often told me that all it took to turn the most electrifying film stars into dullards was to be around them for a while. But he felt[...]
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  What I learned from reading Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet those same[...]
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  What I learned from reading Copy This!: How I turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 square feet into a company called Kinkos by Paul Orfalea.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[4:23] I've never met a more circular, out-of-the-box thinker. It's often exhausting trying to keep[...]
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  What I learned from reading Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[1:47] Every interesting thing I've ever done, every important thing I've ever done, every beneficial thing I've ever done, has[...]
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  What I learned from Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by  Colin Bryar and Bill Carr.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[3:58] What is best for the customer? Do that: "Amazon believes that long-term growth is best produced by putting the customer[...]
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  What I learned from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone.This is part one of a three part series on Jeff Bezos. The next two books are Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon and Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire.----Get access[...]
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  What I learned from reading Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Productsby Leander Kahney.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[4:43] Mike Ive influence on his son’s talent was purely nurturing. They were constantly keeping up a conversation about made-objects and hw they could[...]
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  What I learned from reading Going for Broke: How Robert Campeau Bankrupted the Retail Industry, Jolted the Junk Bond Market, and Brought the Booming Eighties to a Crashing Halt by John Rothchild.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] A stranger comes to Wall Street,[...]
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  What I learned from reading Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] From a party of one it now counted millions of users on every continent, including Antartica, and even[...]
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  What I learned from reading The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is[...]
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  What I learned from reading Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace by James Wallace.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----There would be an industry breakthrough unimagined at the time, and it would be made by a company that didn’t yet exist.[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer by Bosley Crowther. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----The reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead. [0:50]He is in[...]
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  What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[12:38] Numerous other entrepreneurs had tried playing at rocket science before, Musk well knew. He wanted to learn from their[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----He celebrated having divested himself personally of the vast wealth with which fate and his genius for[...]
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  What I learned from reading My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----Any man who by a lifetime of excessive application learns more about anything than others owes a statement to successors. The results of research should be recorded.[...]
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  What I learned from reading The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising by Kenneth Roman. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----One characteristic of geniuses, said Einstein, is they are passionately curious. Ogilvy’s great secret was an inquiring mind.In conversation, he never pontificated; he[...]
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  What I learned from reading Driven: An Autobiography by Larry Miller. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[1:01] I decided I had to be extremely good at something. [2:47] I’m sorry to say, neglecting my family to do all of the above. I worked and worked[...]
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  What I learned from reading Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography by Jackie Cochran. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[4:37] At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot, male or female,[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] Bob Noyce took me under his wing,” Steve Jobs explains. “I was young, in my twenties. He[...]
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  What I learned from reading Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel Shurkin. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders AMA  Subscribers can: -ask me questions[...]
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  What I learned from reading Rocket Man: Robert Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes-listen to every bonus episode---[18:16] For even though I reasoned with myself that the thing was impossible, there was something[...]
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  What I learned from reading Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes-listen to every bonus[...]
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  What I learned from reading Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes----[10:14] I was a competitive kid. I always tried to do my best. I never thought of myself as being poor or deprived in any way. We managed to scrape by. Kids[...]
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  What I learned from reading Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen[...]
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  What I learned from reading Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist by Christopher Risso-Gill.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen[...]
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  What I learned from reading Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes-listen to every bonus episode---[0:01][...]
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  What I learned from reading Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow.[1:29] In Disney's Land, popular historian Richard Snow brilliantly presents the entire spectacular story, a wild ride from vision to realization that reflects the uniqueness of the man determined to build “the happiest[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions[...]
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  What I learned from reading Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes-listen to every bonus episode---[0:20] He was scratched, bruised, and hungry, but gritty[...]
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  What I learned from reading Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[2:38]  The whole point of moving things forward is that you run into problems, failures, things that don't work.[...]
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  What I learned from reading My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium  Subscribers can: -ask me questions directly-listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes-listen to every bonus episode---[0:24][...]
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  What I learned from reading Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder by Kenny Moore. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can[...]
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  What I learned from reading Personal History by Katherine Graham. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[1:02] A few minutes later there[...]
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  What I learned from reading Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator by Vance Trimble.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA)[...]
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  What I learned from reading Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by Vance H. Trimble.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[3:11] Charlie Munger on Sam Walton: It's quite interesting to think about Walmart starting from a single store in Arkansas –[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[3:12] There's truth behind legend. There really were poor Texas boys who discovered gushing oil wells and became[...]
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  What I learned from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus[...]
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  What I learned from reading Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America by Jim Rasenberger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] Sam Colt embodied the America of his time. He was big brash, voracious, imaginative, and possessed extraordinary drive and energy. He was a[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and[...]
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  What I learned from reading Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:58] All[...]
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  What I learned from reading Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by James Conant.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism by Susan Berfield. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:17] Morgan was the most influential of these businessmen. He wasn’t the richest but that didn’t[...]
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  What I learned from reading Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to[...]
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  What I learned from reading The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow. [0:01] This book is about the rise, fall, and resurrection of an American banking empire—the House of Morgan. [1:56] What gave the House of Morgan its tantalizing mystery was its government links. Much like the[...]
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  What I learned from reading Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell by Charlotte Gray.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me[...]
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  What I learned from reading Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[1:23] He[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Success Story by Estee Lauder.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---You can probably[...]
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  What I learned from reading Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War by Ronald Fierstein. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me[...]
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  What I learned from reading Land’s Polaroid: A Company and The Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience by Mark Olshaker. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Big Score: Robert Friedland and The Voisey’s Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:04] Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script. [2:22] He had[...]
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  What I learned from reading Life of an American Workman by Walter Chrysler.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:56]The kitchen fire was the only heat we knew in the winter. Often I had to scamper barefoot across a floor where snow had drifted through[...]
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  What I learned from reading How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] How Felix started his first business with no money. [4:30] Human nature does not change. We are cooperative[...]
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  What I learned from reading Master of Precision: Henry Leland by Ottilie Leland and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:17] Henry Leland laid the foundation for the future of American industry. He had established manufacturing procedures never previously so effectively employed[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[1:06]  You want to know what I think about Larry Ellison? Well, I suppose he had some private[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America’s Cup, Twice by Julian Guthrie.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe[...]
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  What I learned from reading Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering by Thomas Boyd----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[3:06] If you had to summarize Charles Kettering this is the way you would do it: “As symbol of progress and the American[...]
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  What I learned from reading Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] Although much of my time with him coincided with a period of adversity for Oracle, I never once saw Ellison downcast.[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Fast Times of Albert Champion: From Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon, An Untold Story of Speed, Success, and Betrayal by Peter Joffre Nye.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] A brief summary of the life of Albert Champion: Champion had[...]
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  What I learned from reading My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[2:40] There are ideas worth billions in a $30 history book: Henry talked to me on several occasions about a book by the former chairman of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, A Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History by William Pelfrey.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[0:01] They were oil and water in all respects. Billy[...]
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  What I learned from reading Billy Durant Creator of General Motors: The Story of the Flamboyant Genius Who Helped Lead America into the Automobile Age by Lawrence Gustin.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy by Charles Hyde.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----This is the story of two small town machinists who became enormously successful automobile manufacturers in the early years of[...]
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  What I learned by reading My Forty Years With Ford by Charles Sorensen.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Henry[...]
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  What I learned from reading Born of This Land: My Life Story by Chung Ju-yung.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every[...]
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  What I learned from reading Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram’s Mr. Sam by Michael R. Marrus.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---He was, during[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Timeby Michael Craig.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Some Texas banker was playing poker with over $15 million on the table. 15 million[...]
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  What I learned from reading Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can[...]
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  What I learned from reading Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Tom King. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It by Dr. George Roberts. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen[...]
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  What I learned from reading Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and The Family Feud That Forever Changed The Business of Sports by Barbara Smit.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---This story begins at a time in history when money and[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary & Social Innovator by Robert E. Price.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA)[...]
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  What I learned from reading Les Schwab Pride In Performance: Keep It Going! by Les Schwab. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus[...]
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  What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Tao of Warren Buffett by David Clark and Mary Buffett. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes[...]
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  What I learned from reading Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography by Rinsey Mills. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[3:27][...]
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  What I learned from reading Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automobile Empire by Luca Dal Monte.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA)[...]
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  What I learned from reading Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans by A. J. Baime.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can[...]
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  What I learned from reading James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest by Michael P. Malone.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward Thorp. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders[...]
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  What I learned from reading Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen[...]
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  What I learned from reading First A Dream by Jim Clayton.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---
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  What I learned from reading Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and[...]
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  What I learned by reading Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---
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  What I learned from reading Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders by Warren Buffett.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---
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  What I learned from reading The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and The Making of IBM by Kevin Maney.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Barnstormer and The Lady: Aviation Legends Walter and Olive Ann Beech by Dennis Farney.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA)[...]
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  What I learned from reading Onassis: The Definitive Biography by Willi Frischauer.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your company[...]
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  What I learned from reading Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a[...]
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  What I learned from reading Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Rolls-Royce: The First Forty Years of Britain's Most Prestigious Company by Peter Pugh.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private[...]
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  What I learned from reading Today and Tomorrow by Henry Ford.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your company[...]
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  What I learned from reading Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing by Randall Stross.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation[...]
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  What I learned from reading Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Appleby Michael Moritz.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private[...]
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  What I learned from reading Henry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist by Quentin Skrabec Jr.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address[...]
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  "To read Bezos’ shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written." 
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  What I learned from reading The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World by Mark Spitznagel.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and The Struggle For A Rubber Monopoly by Richard Korman.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig by Jerry Shields.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address[...]
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  What I learned from reading Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West by Mark Foster. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William C. Rempel. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your[...]
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  What I learned from reading Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your company[...]
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  What I learned by from reading The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ---Join Founders AMAMembers of Founders AMA can:-Email me your questions directly (you get a private email address in the confirmation email) -Promote your[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Such was the beginning of a revolution [0:01]The economic benefits arise not from innovation itself, but from the entrepreneurs[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Responsible Company: What We've Learned From Patagonia's First 40 Years by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing[...]
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  What I learned from reading Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters; The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---He was a film director, a producer, a test pilot, inventor, investor, and entrepreneur [0:01]the start of Hughes Tool[...]
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  What I learned from reading Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John Bogle ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Gentlemen, cut your costs. [4:00]the benefits of being forced to work early on in life [7:00]I'll never forget the inspiration when I read this[...]
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  What I learned from reading Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---This is a story of a revolution [0:01]what Vanguard does and why? [7:00]the seed of the idea that eventually becomes Vanguard [10:00]switching from[...]
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  What I learned from reading Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Reality is chaotic; planning is ordered [0:01]Vince Lombardi is the Steve Jobs of coaches [3:48] how Southwest Airlines is different [11:31]the beginning of Southwest [16:00]fighting[...]
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  What I learned from reading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Unlike Vanderbilt's other adversaries William Walker was not afraid of Cornelius when he should have been [0:01]Setting[...]
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  What I learned by reading The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by TJ Stiles. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---His life spanned from the days of George Washington to John D. Rockefeller [0:01]$1 out of $20 in circulation [4:35]an overview of his[...]
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  What I learned from reading Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first give a gift [0:01]Michael's first jobs + finding his first love [7:02]the foul-mouthed magnates [19:49]starting at the bottom[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---A business is born (0:01)don't start a business unless you are the first[...]
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  What I learned from reading Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic by Mel and Patricia Ziegler---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---For every business, there is an appropriate scale [0:01]Fundamentally Unemployable [5:18]the prehistory of Banana Republic [10:02]"We didn't have any money, we didn't[...]
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  What I learned from reading  The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:01] In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups.  [3:15] Great things about doing[...]
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  What I learned from reading Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---—“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that[...]
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  What I learned from reading Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---
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  What I learned from reading Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Wayby Richard Branson---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Business is a fluid, changing substance. A mutating, indefinable thing [0:45]I just pick up the phone[...]
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  What I learned from reading I Love Capitalism: An American Story by Ken Langone. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---His early life: there was never much money (3:30)Ken's first jobs (5:35)[At school] I didn't apply myself at all . I did the absolute minimum .[...]
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  What I learned from reading Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---The creation of The Home Depot began with two words:[...]
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  What I learned from reading Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft by Paul Allen ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I was 21 years old and at loose ends (0:01)how Paul Allen works (4:09)coming up with the idea for Microsoft (4:48)admiring Bill Gates'[...]
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  What I learned from reading Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Whatever success I've had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know [0:01]Ray's first principle[...]
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  What I learned from reading One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Walking away at the pinnacle of success was the hardest thing I have ever done (0:01)Through the years, I have greatly feared[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---There's no recipe for complicated, dynamic situations [0:01]Meeting Marc Andreessen [8:30]The co-founder relationship between Marc and Ben[...]
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  What I learned from reading Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it, and don’t think anything of[...]
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  What I learned from reading Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---He seemed eager to sum up the lessons he had learned and tell people how he applied them in his life. [0:01]He worked long hours over drawings[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:54] Musk and Bezos were the leaders of this resurrection of the American space program, a[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---When he arrived in America in 1891 at age fourteen, Zemurray was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he[...]
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  What I learned from reading Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent by Nolan Bushnell. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---A pong is a piece of advice designed to help enhance creativity. It applies to only where the advice is[...]
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  What I learned from reading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Lucas unapologetically invested in what he believed in the most: himself.“What we’re striving for is total freedom, where we can finance our pictures, make them[...]
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  What I learned from reading Creativity Inc: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Lead with a light touch (18:59)Anchor yourself with your why (23:35)Bet on yourself (39:54)Decentralize problem-solving (52:56)People are more[...]
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  What I learned from reading Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World by Lynn Downey---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:01] Levi was one of the men who set that firm foundation[17:35] I do not have at this time a specific[...]
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  What I learned from reading Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Crazy Jack (0:01)The internet is filling the void created by state planning (6:59)Jack has made a career out of being underestimated: “I am a very[...]
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  What I learned from reading Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Culture Eats Strategy [1:45]Conspiracy as a metaphor for a company [3:56]It is[...]
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  What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I don't want to be the person who ever has to compete with Elon (0:47)Musk expects you to keep up (2:45)Short[...]
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  What I learned from reading The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:01] How Steve Jobs was inspired by David Packard[1:00] Books are the original hyperlinks[4:30] Profit is the measure of how well[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Unyielding determination (2:30) Jocko's concept of GOOD (4:00)The ability to focus on an idea for a long time is the antidote to short bursts of dopamine we get from checking social[...]
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  What I learned from reading A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneurby Tracy Kidder---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[7:00] Kayak sells for $1.8 billion[12:00] "I'm paying attention. I want meetings of three people, not ten."[15:00][...]
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  What I learned from My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---A theory of business (0:01)If an old idea works then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. The Lindy Effect. (7:30)All people are[...]
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  What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I am a creator of products, a builder of things. [0:01]This book is the story of 15 years of struggle to finally invent, own, and sell[...]
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  What I learnd by reading No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---When Danny was excited about something, you couldn't help but get excited too (3:00)Steve Jobs[...]
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  What I learned from reading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---He grew up poor, dropped out of high school, and made himself 3 or 4 billion dollars (0:01), New Growth Theory (8:00), "Growth is[...]
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  What I learned from reading How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I'm not going to work for someone else (0:01)Early design decisions of Snapchat (7:45)Evan idolized Steve Jobs and Edwin Land (10:00)How Snapchat[...]
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  What I learned from reading Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:35] For a new generation, Carmack and Romero personified an American dream: they were self-made individuals who[...]
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  What I learned from reading Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer. This is not a typical business book (0:30)Why don't you just do what you've been thinking about doing your whole life? (4:00)How Danny learned from other founders on what to do and what to avoid (8:00)The smartest business decision I[...]
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  What I learned from reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Learning from great company-builders (0:30)Steve Jobs verbal mastery (5:00)The failed negotiations between NeXT and IBM (10:00) "But[...]
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  What I learned from reading Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I had always avoided thinking of myself as a businessman. I was a climber, a surfer, a kayaker, a skier, and[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---
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  What I learned from reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow. [0:01] Rockefeller was a unique hybrid in American business, both the instinctive first-generation entrepreneur who founded the company and the analytical second-generation manager who extends and develops it. [0:30] Having created an empire of unfathomable complexity, he was smart enough to see[...]
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  What I learned from reading Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. 
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  What I learned from reading The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich. Microsoft had offered Mark between $1 million and $2 million to go work for them. Amazingly, Mark had turned them down (1:25)Maybe he knew he was about to cross a line. But he had never[...]
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  What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban.In the most recent 1% of our species short existence, we have become the first life on earth to know about the situation (4:38)The total market for satellite manufacturing, the launches that carry them to space, and related equipment and services has[...]
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  What I learned by reading How Tesla Will Change The World by Tim UrbanKindle version: The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why.
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  What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim UrbanRead The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce on WaitButWhy. Quotes from this episode: Which leaves only two options: create or copy Conventional wisdom: If something is both a good idea and possible, it's already been done.I'm fascinated by those rare people in history[...]
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  What I learned from reading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight.The best teacher I ever had, one of the finest men I ever knew, spoke of the Oregon Trail often. It’s our birthright, he’d growl. Our character, our fate—our DNA. “The cowards never started, the weak died along the way—that leaves[...]
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  What I learned from reading I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow.
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  What I learned from reading The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael Malone.
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  What I learned from reading Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc.
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  What I learned from reading Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton.
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  What I learned from reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
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  What I learned from reading The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
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  What I learned from reading The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented The Modern World by Randall StrossEdison starts his first business at 12 years old (11:00)Edison's discipline (20:00)Edison's rivalry with Alexander Graham Bell (38:00)Edison's friendship with Henry Ford (1:00:00)Edison's stoic nature (1:15:00) The death of Thomas Edison (1:21:00)A list of all the books featured[...]
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  What I learned from reading Walt Disney based on the book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler. 
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  What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceThe conventional wisdom of the time said to take a deep breath and wait for the next big thing to arrive in due course. Musk rejected that logic by throwing $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla, and[...]

Learn from history’s greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time. ‘Marc Andreessen