Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)
What I learned from reading Going for Broke: How Robert Campeau Bankrupted the Retail Industry, Jolted the Junk Bond Market, and Brought the Booming …
5 years, 4 months ago
#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)
What I learned from reading Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.
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[0:01] From a party of one…
5 years, 4 months ago
#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
What I learned from reading The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard.
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Founders Notes gives you the ability to …
5 years, 4 months ago
#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)
What I learned from reading Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace by James Wallace.
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There would be an industry breakthrough uni…
5 years, 4 months ago
#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)
What I learned from reading Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer by Bosley Crowther.
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The reason so many people showed up at his …
5 years, 5 months ago
#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)
What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger.
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[12:38] Numerous other entrepren…
5 years, 5 months ago
#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)
What I learned from reading The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery.
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He celebrated hav…
5 years, 5 months ago
#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)
What I learned from reading My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins.
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Any man who by a lifetime of excessive application learns more about anythi…
5 years, 5 months ago
#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)
What I learned from reading The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising by Kenneth Roman.
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One characteristic of…
5 years, 5 months ago
#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)
What I learned from reading Driven: An Autobiography by Larry Miller.
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[1:01] I decided I had to be extremely good at something.
[2:47] I’m sorry …
5 years, 6 months ago