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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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#283 Andrew Carnegie

Episode Date: December 26, 2022

What I learned from rereading The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founde...

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#280 Jimi Hendrix

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

What I learned from reading Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by inve...

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#278 Peter Thiel

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

What I learned from rereading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable No...

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#275 Paul Graham

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

What I learned from reading Paul Graham’s essays.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[4:52] My...

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#269 Sam Zell

Episode Date: September 29, 2022

What I learned from reading Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell.----Founders Notes gives you the superpower to lea...

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#267 Thomas Edison

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

What I learned from reading Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Not...