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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 ho...
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My Conversation with Michael Dell
I’ve started a new show where I have conversations with the greatest living Founders. The show is called David Senra. It will be on a separate podcast...
#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything
I didn’t know who Thomas Peterffy was. I was shocked to learn that he is 81 years old, worth $80 billion dollars, and has built his $120 billion compa...
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
I started a new show so I can have long-form conversations with the greatest living founders. You can watch on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, X, or...
#401 How Bill Gates Works
This episode is about Bill Gates' obsessive drive and hardcore work ethic. Bill Gates had the rarest entrepreneurial talent—the ability to see the lev...
#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
This episode covers the extreme perseverance and the stubborn genius of James Dyson.
Dyson has a business philosophy which is very diffe...
#399 How Elon Works
This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Elon Musk—and nothing else.
I spent well over 60 hours reading (...
#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews, and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers a window into how one of the world’s most cr...
#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
Jiro Ono is the greatest living sushi chef. He was kicked out his house when he was 9. He started working in a restaurant so he wouldn't have to slee...
#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
I've read hundreds of thousands of words about Enzo Ferrari. For this episode I distilled down his most important ideas into 1 hour. Ferrari was truly...
#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
Those on the margins often come to control the center. That maxim ties together the three remarkable people profiled in this episode:
Col...
#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica
Your dad dies before you’re born. Your mom can’t afford to take care of you. You grow up without a family and in an institution. You learn a trade and...
#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers
Your family asks you to take over a failing factory in a remote part of France. This “family business” comes with a stack of unpaid bills, a small tea...
#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
You take over the family pastry shop and transform it into one of the most valuable privately held businesses in the world. Your father dies young. Yo...
#391 Jimmy Iovine
You grow up in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn. You drop out of college. Your dad is your best friend but you don’t want to work the docks like him....
#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview
I've read this interview probably 10 times. It's that good. Steve Jobs was 29 when this interview was published, and with remarkable clarity of though...
#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon
When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: “Don’t let the accountants run your business.”...
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!
(I fixed the audio and uploaded a new episode!) "To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet...
A conversation on focus and finding your life's work
My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had just finished listening to episode #383 "Todd Grav...
#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine
Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start trading full time until he was 40. The company he fou...
#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing fa...
#385 Michael Dell
This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his company with $1000 when he was 19 years old. The re...
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who is the smartest person you know" and "Who do you th...
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biographies of history's greatest founders and this book...
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's maxim: Find a simple idea and take it seriously. Todd...
#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
At the core of Michael Ovitz's success is his relentless work ethic and commitment to mastering his craft. 50 years ago he founded Creative Artists Ag...
#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz
What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz.
1: Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and ex...
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
For over 30 years the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meetings were recorded. Munger and Buffett answered over 1700 questions from shareholders during that...
#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
Jerry Jones rolled the dice until his knuckles bled. He started working at 7 years old. Jerry could sell, sell, sell. He sold fruit at his father’s gr...
#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great Depression. At 19 you see an opportunity where oth...
#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
Marcus Wallenberg Jr's impact on Swedish industry was so substantial that during the 1970s, Wallenberg family businesses employed about 40% of Sweden'...
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
What I learned from reading The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim.
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#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets and were reported in major newspapers. She was a on...
The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai
Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the richest person in Korea. When Chung was in his 80s...
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
Jeff Bezos on retirement being lame, AI, the electricity metaphor for AI, the good fortune of being alive during multiple golden ages, long term life...
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
Brad Jacobs is one of the most talented living entrepreneurs. Brad has started 8 different billion dollar or multi-billion dollar businesses. He has d...
#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group
Amancio Ortega is one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ortega is the founder of Inditex, a pioneer of fast fashion, an entrepreneur with over 60...
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
What I learned from rereading James J. Hill: Empire Builder by Michael P. Malone.
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#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull and The Testament of a Furniture Dealer by Ingvar...
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger.
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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land
What I learned from rereading Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos.
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