
Founders
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 l...
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Episodes (442)
#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce
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#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
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#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune)
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#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick
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#283 Andrew Carnegie
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#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters
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#281 Working with Steve Jobs
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The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea
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#280 Jimi Hendrix
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#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
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#278 Peter Thiel
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#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3
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#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2
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#275 Paul Graham
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#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
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#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
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#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)
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#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
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#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)
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#269 Sam Zell
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#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
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#267 Thomas Edison
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#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography
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#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary L...
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#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid
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#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
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#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)
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#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two
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#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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#259 Bob Dylan
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#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)
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#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
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#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
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#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
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#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
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#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)
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#252 Socrates
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#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership
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#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
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Steve Jobs's Heroes
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#249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words
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#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan)
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#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)
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#246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters
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#245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio)
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#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)
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#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)
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#242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
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#241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
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#240 Mozart: A Life
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