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 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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#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

What I learned from reading Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and The Family Feud That Forever Changed The Business of Spor...

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#107 Sol Price (Costco)

Episode Date: January 20, 2020

What I learned from reading Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary & Social Innovator by Robert E. Price.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaug...

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#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)

Episode Date: December 30, 2019

What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull.----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Sha...

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#102 Akio Morita (Sony)

Episode Date: December 15, 2019

What I learned from reading Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest...

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#95 Claude Shannon

Episode Date: October 27, 2019

What I learned from reading A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman ----Come see a live show wit...