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Founders Podcast
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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 and invent new technology. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these ideas 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
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 and invent new technology. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these ideas 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
#376 Jensen Huang
What I learned from reading The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim: amzn.to/4h32atI
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Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here: www.foundersnotes.com/
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” - Gareth
Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast www.amazon.com/shop/founderspodcast
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Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations -all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save more. ramp.com/
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Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here: www.foundersnotes.com/
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Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book davidsenra.com
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” - Gareth
Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast www.amazon.com/shop/founderspodcast
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#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
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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 one woman bank and the single biggest individual financier in the world. She took no partners and ran her own money. She built a financial empire of stocks, bonds, railroads, and real estate. She battled the great men of her day and kept a gun on he...
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
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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 long passions, refusing to underestimate opportunity, dancing with curiosity, inventing, wandering, crisp documents and messy meetings, willing to be misunderstood, and why he doesn't do many interviews. This episode is what I learned from reading...
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
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Brad Jacobs is one of the most talented living entrepreneurs. Brad has started 8 different billion-dollar or multi-billion-dollar businesses. He has done over 500 acquisitions and has raised over $30 billion. He started his first company at 23, has over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, and is the most energetic person I have ever been around. Earlier this year, he published his life s...
#372 Amancio Ortega
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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 years of experience, and has created a business model that is studied in universities that he could not access. His life story is inspiring, educational, and full of valuable ideas for future generations of founders. This episode is about what I ...
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
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What I learned from rereading "James J. Hill: Empire Builder" (www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/371-james-j-hill-the-empire-builder) by Michael P. Malone. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/371-james-j-hill-the-empire-builder David Senra: x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
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What I learned from reading "Leading By Design: The Ikea Story" (a.co/d/aTQ9kKj) by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull and "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" by Ingvar Kamprad. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/370-the-founder-of-ikea-ingvar-kamprad David Senra: x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
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What I learned from reading "Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX" (a.co/d/c2Onblp) by Eric Berger. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/369-elon-musk-and-the-early-days-of-spacex David Senra: x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography
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What I learned from rereading Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/368-rockefellers-autobiography David Senra: x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20
#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
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What I learned from reading Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks: Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell by Ben Johnson. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/367-inside-the-contrarian-mind-of-sam-zell David Senra: x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20
#366 Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
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What I learned from reading How To Succeed in Mr. Beast Production and how ideas from Sam Zell, Charlie Munger, Nick Sleep, Warren Buffett, Sam Zemurray, Bob Kierlin, Steve Jobs, Li Lu, Edwin Land, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, James Cameron, Anna Wintour, Walt Disney, Bernard Arnault, and Brad Jacobs immediately came to mind. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: ww...
#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
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The best investors are not investors at all. They are entrepreneurs who have never sold. - Nick Sleep Nick Sleep’s letters are a masterclass on the importance of understanding the underlying reality of a business - what he calls the engine of its success. I read all 110,000 words of Nick’s letters (twice!) to make this episode and what I found most important is Nick’s ability to develop a deep ...
#364 Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
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How Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria built their radically unconventional investment partnership. From the incredible book "Richer, Wiser, Happier: How The World's Greatest Investors Win In Markets and Life" by William Green. www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: joincolossus.com/episode/364-nick-zaks-excellent-adventure-how-nick-sleep-and-qais-zaharia-built-their-investment-partn...
#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
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I sent a friend this text: I'm working on another Li Lu episode but this one is about his remarkable investing career. Can be summarized by: 1. Studied Buffett and Munger. 2. Did that. Last episode was about how Li Lu survived one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable. This episode covers how he thinks about investing and entrepreneurship-in his own words. Sources: The forward to the Chine...
#362 Li Lu
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What I learned from reading "Moving The Mountain: My life in China from the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square" (a.co/d/f1QXdIR) by Li Lu. Charlie Munger said that Li Lu was the only outsider he ever trusted with his money. Decades before Li Lu made Munger half a billion dollars, Li survived one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable: Born into poverty, abandoned, hungry, beaten, surro...
#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
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#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
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#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
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#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
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#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
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#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
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#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
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#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
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#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
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#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
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#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
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#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
If you ever do this on writers . Would love to hear your views on Ayn Rand . She was an evangelist of entrepreneurship before it was a thing . ❤ your work
May I know what is the software used here to generate the video?
I've been recommending the Zeckendorf book for many years. Most won't/can't read. There is no difference..
This is the best one hour of podcast listening I have ever had in my life. Thank you.
Love this ep! Thought I'd share my notes of my favourite parts :) --- Steve's love of beauty and his impatience with ugliness pervaded our lives. No object was too small or insignificant to be exempt from Steve's examination of the meaning and the quality of its form. He looked at things and then created things from the standpoint of perfection. That could be an unforgiving standpoint, but over time I came to see its reasons, to understand Steve's unbelievable rigour, which he imposed first and most strenuously on himself --- I kept coming back to the time that many have described as his wilderness years, the dozen years between his first tenure at Apple and his return. That era, from 1985 to 1997, is easy to overlook. The lows aren't as dramatic as the blowups of his first tenure at Apple, and the highs aren't as thrilling as those engineered in the first decade of the 21st century. These were muddled, complicated times. It is bizarro Steve Jobs. And the reason I call it that is because you have one of the most gifted entrepreneurs of all time making bad decision after bad decision over and over again as he's trying to build next. But those years are in fact the critical ones of his career. That is when he learned most everything that made his later success possible. To overlook those years is to fall into the trap of only celebrating success. We can learn as much, if not more, from failure. --- Think about Apple today, - a multiple trillion dollar company. The very first product they're going to make together and actually sell under the Apple brand. They spent $1,000. There's something that Jeff Bezos said that has never left my mind: We know from our past experiences that big things start small. The biggest oak starts from an acorn. If you wanna do anything new, you've got to be willing to let that acorn grow into a little sapling and then into a small tree. And maybe one day it will be a big business on its own. --- He was a free thinker whose ideas would often run against the conventional wisdom of any community in which he operated. Steve didn't care at all. Your criticism was irrelevant of what he wanted to do. He was going to make it happen. --- Steve always jumps on things as fast as possible. Steve said yes first, and then learn how to later without missing a beat. Steve happily promised delivery, even though he and Woz had neither the wherewithal to buy the components, nor anything like a factory or a labor force necessary to build anything. --- It's more fun to be a pirate than join the Navy. He wanted to build insanely great products from the time he was a very young man until the day he died. He did not want to be a businessman. “I didn't want to be a businessman because all the businessmen I knew I didn't want to be like.” --- It is one thing to know that you have to persevere. It is another thing completely to actually do it. --- Another good question for you to ask. What do I focus on that sets me apart from my competitors? And if you can't come up with something that's a sign that there is more work to do. --- Anybody building a product should order Creative Selection immediately. It's written by a programmer who demoed and worked directly with Steve. You can read it in a weekend. It gives you an insight into how he thought about building products. --- Steve has this great idea called ‘The Apple Experience’. But you could put your company name in that. And it's the fact that every single experience a customer has with your company will either add or subtract from that customer's impression of your company. And so that's why Steve obsessed about every single interaction point, whether it’s using a Mac or uploading your credit card details. Literally every single time the customer interacts with your company, look at that point and eliminate any points of friction or unhappiness that can cause a withdrawal from your company's reputation with that customer. --- The more episodes that you listen, there’s gonna be more of these weird ideas, weird lines you hear or weird stories you might recall two years from now, five years from now or ten years from now. You might use it next week. And it might spawn a new idea. All you're doing is exposing your brain to a bunch of different ideas from geniuses. When it comes to their work, the people that you and I are studying on this podcast are geniuses. Think about it - they're so good at what they do. Somebody wrote a book about it. That is crazy. --- And this is the way Steve and Jony Ive defined success. It is not about share price. Or the number of computers we sell. It all came back to whether we felt really proud of what we collectively had designed and built.
Great Channel man, really a gem.
You’re really amazing I’ve been binging these
Dave this might be the “crème de la crème” of them all 😊
thank you for that summary, It helped a lot in understanding this man. do you know of more authors who are this physically active?
Have you read Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse? (not the book by simon sinek)
Conqueror.
thank you
Reminds me of MicroStrategy
Does anyone know if he's done an episode on a founder in any healthcare field?
Bro can u make a video on wang chuanfu ( byd ceo )
Interesting. Also to maintain attention with just captions is a feat.
hey we need a episode on larry ellisonnnnn
This is one of the most impcatful podcast episodes I have ever listened to
Absolutely loved it - an epic story of grit, perseverance, battle and conviction. Thank you from Sydney.
Wonderful 😊
Long time listener! Could you please add this into a podcast playlist so that we can listen directly on ‘UA-cam Music’ as a podcast! ‘UA-cam’ isn’t best to listen to podcast, very finicky
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31:18 did not sound good at all. Overall, great video though. I love studying about the history of Silicon Valley.
this book is being investigated as a fake....check news sources - the attributed academic press says they did not publish it - there are apparently significant factual errors in it
It's too bad that the founders notes is hidden behind a $500 pay wall. Im sure it's value justifies it, but i can't justify the purchase when im watching my pennys and building my moat
Great video
Great podcast. But some constructive criticism after watching a recent interview you gave: You are spot on about showing up every day to get lucky. But not giving up isn’t enough You need to go back and analyze for every iteration. The same way you study entrepreneurs you should study your own podcast Your thumbnails are all the same. Experiment with new formats Your structure is often the same. Try mixing in different formats to play with human psychology a bit, like teasing something at minute 2 and strategically revisiting it at minute 7 You say “uh” a lot. That’s okay. But try to reduce it little by little The titles are all the same format, try experimenting with thought provoking titles There’s a lot to play with. I think you’re great and want to see you succeed so hopefully you take this in a constructive way. Keep up the good work
Also get a camera that creates depth of field. Focus on you and blur books a bit. It’ll make ur quality look 10x
Not that I don't like seeing your face, but your other videos with the giant text are very (and more) helpful to me. I've never experienced that on a podcast before and I feel like I fully consumed and digested every word you were saying. Something about the UA-cam closed caption is too fleeting to make it as effective.
Amazing work! Reading is the way!
There version of the book linked is translated from Chinese they was translated from English. Which version did you read? Was it "Dear Father/Dear Son" written by J.W. Ernst
His book was fantastic and sad.
What? Noone here!!
Tell no one. This podcast is one of the best kept secrets in business education
@barefooted001 for sure brother
@@barefooted001 yup!
I cannot believe this podcast does not have more listeners. I’ve always listened on Apple Podcasts - I’m not even an entrepreneur but the level of insight and elevated thinking is extremely refreshing.
I'm looking through your catalog on Spotify and I can't find anything. Do you do a podcast on anyone that had a service-based business? Everyone you read has a commodity business
This was the message i needed most today, being a fan of murakami myself helps to hit harder. Literally just after finishing the video i subscribed to swimming classes again. Thank you
The fact that 80 year old Rockefeller had road rage is so funny hahaha
Odd question. I'd like to listen to these with my kids as well. Could we get a bleeped out version? Or is there an AI to do that? @UA-cam make that a language feature. Fill in and make stuff PG. Serious moat! But also don't change the way you talk, I love it. I just would like optionality. Of all the podcasts I could force them to listen to probably the highest ROI and most engaging for them.
Thanks so much for the great breakdown, David!
can you start including timestamps? thank you!
Now that's a handsome storyteller. Also, thank you for speaking very clearly, Because the closed captions generated by UA-cam are incredibly accurate. 🎉
FINALLY! Please add the videos to spotify as well
Society has dismissed the love between father and Son. This write up shows how important it is.
I would love this as a book❤
God bless you for gifting us with this knowledge🙏🏾. Your video was God’s gift to me.
Finally here after hearing you recommend it 100 times. Thanks!
You might not see this but, this is my first ep ive stumbled upon from you just right now. I will definitely keep watching your videos. Thank you it helped a lot.
where do I join the podcast to support you???? I can't find it and I manage inf on youtube lol
Enjoyed the episode mate; a 1000 to go!
Another great episode. Thanks from Sydney
Love this format ❤