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
408 episodes transcribedWhat I learned from reading The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig by Jerry Shields.The cameraman was excited and more than a little nervous. In a m...
What I learned from reading The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli.100 years ago he was a man with $5000 to his n...
What I learned from reading Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West by Mark Foster. He built giant businesses in roads, bridges, dams, ho...
What I learned from reading The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William C. Rempe...
What I learned from reading Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets.----It is my work I am congratulated on, and to me, that's the only thing that counts (...
What I learned by from reading The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann.----The spot market for oil was one of the most lucrati...
What I learned from reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. ----[0:01] Why Ben Franklin wrote an autobiography[4:50] Ben...
What I learned from reading The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.----Such was the beginning of a re...
What I learned from reading The Responsible Company: What We've Learned From Patagonia's First 40 Years by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley.----When...
What I learned from reading Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters; The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire.----He was a fi...
What I learned from reading Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John Bogle ----Gentlemen, cut your costs. [4:00]the benefits of bein...
What I learned from reading Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.----This is a story of a revolution [0:01]what Vanguard do...
What I learned from reading Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success----Reality is chaotic; planning is ordered [0:01...
What I learned from reading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen...
What I learned by reading The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by TJ Stiles. ----His life spanned from the days of George Washingto...
What I learned from reading Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz. ----Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first give a gift [0:01]Michael's fir...
What I learned from reading The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders.----A b...
What I learned from reading Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic by Mel and Patricia Ziegler----For every business, there is an appropria...
What I learned from reading The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen.----[0:01] In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumu...
What I learned from reading Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can lis...
