Founders David Senra
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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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#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself
What I learned from rereading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler.
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#345 George Lucas
What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones.
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Steven Spielberg
What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride.
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#344 Quentin Tarantino
What I learned from reading Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino.
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#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
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.
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#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.
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The first time I listened I thought why do I want to listen to this guy telling me his opinions on biographies— by the end of the episode I was like this is amazing. I am so grateful to you for making this show which has now become somewhat of an obsession. I wish I had discovered this while I was trying to launch my business, which I ultimately had to put on hold. Thank you David, your show inspires me and and the more I listen, the better it gets as I can start to connect the dots.
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