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
401 episodes transcribedWhat I learned from reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz.---There's no recipe...
What I learned from reading Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid---If you dream of something worth d...
What I learned from reading Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas---He seemed eager to sum up the lessons he had learned and tell people how...
What I learned from reading The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport. ---[0:54] Musk and B...
What I learned from reading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.---When he arrived in America in 18...
What I learned from reading Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent by Nolan Bushnell. ---A pong is a piece of advice desig...
What I learned from reading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones. ---Lucas unapologetically invested in what he believed in the most: himself.“What...
What I learned from reading Creativity Inc: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull. ---Lead with a light...
What I learned from reading Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World by Lynn Downey---[0:01] Levi was one of the men who set that firm f...
What I learned from reading Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark. ---Crazy Jack (0:01)The internet is filling the void created by sta...
What I learned from reading Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Bui...
What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. ---I don't want to be the person who ever...
What I learned from reading The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard.---[0:01] How Steve Jobs was inspired by David Packa...
What I learned from reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough---Unyielding determination (2:30) Jocko's concept of GOOD (4:00)The ability to foc...
What I learned from reading A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneurby Tracy Kidder---[7:00] Kayak sel...
What I learned from My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford.---A theory of business (0:01)If an old idea works then the weight of the eviden...
What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson---I am a creator of products, a builder of things. [0:01]This book is th...
What I learnd by reading No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin. --...
What I learned from reading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis---He grew up poor, dropped out of high school, and made himself...
What I learned from reading How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher. ---I'm not going to work for someone else (0:01...
