302 episodes
Founders David Senra
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- Business
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4.9 • 484 Ratings
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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 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
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A conversation about being OBSESSED with studying the history of entrepreneurship: Acquired x Founders crossover!
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.
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#296 The Richest Man In The World: Bernard Arnault
What I learned from reading The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai.
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#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger
What I learned from having dinner with Charlie Munger and rereading The Tao of Charlie Munger.
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#294 Napoleon: A Concise Biography
What I learned from reading Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell.
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#293 The Making of McDonald's: The Autobiography of Ray Kroc
What I learned from rereading Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc.
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#292 The Invisible Billionaire
What I learned from rereading The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig by Jerry Shields.
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"Can't stop listening" experience
"History does not repeat itself...people do" is just one of thousands of nuggets of wisdom that can be gleaned from this podcast.
I listen to and read everything business and entrepreneurial. This gem is my constant go to favorite. All my business heroes can be found in one place. The enthusiasm and style in which David narrates creates a "can't stop listening" experience.
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I can not say enough good things about this podcast. It is like a audible Blinkist of books about the titans of industry. Super interesting and fun to listen to. I listen with my kids on the way to school and they love it too. Thank you for making this show!
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This podcast is less about being a founder and more about learning to achieve hard things in life. Regardless of what you think about these different people he speaks about, it’s encouraging to see how human they all are. It’s inspiring to learn how it’s the things they do differently (instead of just their raw talent or intellect) that make them more successful than their peers.
If you are hoping to better yourself, want to learn how to think differently in pursuit of achieving hard things, or desire to be inspired to push through obstacles you’re facing, I can’t express in words how positive of an impact this podcast has had on my morale and ability to think outside of the box.
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