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
412 episodes transcribedWhat I learned from reading Onassis: An Extravagant Life by Frank Brady. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders...
What I learned from reading Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for F...
What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Foun...
What I learned from reading In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World by Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Orti...
What I learned from reading Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders No...
What I learned from reading The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century by...
What I learned from reading Invention: A Life by James Dyson. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subs...
What I learned from reading Inside Steve's Brian by Leander Kahney.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a...
What I learned from reading Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital by Spencer Ante. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valu...
What I learned from reading A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers From Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett and Peter Bevelin.----Get access to the Wor...
What I learned from reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Definitive Biography of The Engineer, Visionary, and Great Briton by L.T.C. Rolt.----Get acce...
What I learned from rereading Against The Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson and reading A History of Great Inventions by James Dyson. ----Get acce...
What I learned from reading Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders...
What I learned from reading The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets by Niall Ferguson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Found...
What I learned from reading Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild by Amos Elon. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founder...
What I learned from reading The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson. ----Get access to th...
What I learned from reading Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Found...
What I learned from reading Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds. ----Get access to the...
What I learned from reading Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for F...
What I learned from reading Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by i...
