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
436 episodes transcribedWhat 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...
What I learned from reading Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson. ----Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the...
What I learned from reading Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Wayby Richard Branson----Business is a...
What I learned from reading I Love Capitalism: An American Story by Ken Langone. ---His early life: there was never much money (3:30)Ken's first jobs...
What I learned from reading Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion by Bernie Marcus and Arth...
What I learned from reading Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft by Paul Allen ---I was 21 years old and at loose ends (0:01)how Paul Alle...
What I learned from reading Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio---Whatever success I've had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal...
What I learned from reading One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock ---Walking away at the pinnacle of success was the h...
What 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...
