Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#137 P.T. Barnum
What I learned from reading Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson.
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[1:23] He is known today primarily for his connection to the circus, but t…
6 years, 1 month ago
#136 Estée Lauder
What I learned from reading A Success Story by Estee Lauder.
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You can probably reach out with comparative ease and touch a life of serenity and pea…
6 years, 1 month ago
#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)
What I learned from reading Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris.
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[0:20] Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the…
6 years, 1 month ago
#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
What I learned from reading A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War by Ronald Fierstein.
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[0:21] He died in 1991 with …
6 years, 1 month ago
#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
What I learned from reading Land’s Polaroid: A Company and The Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg.
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[1:14] He was revered to an extraordinary…
6 years, 2 months ago
#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)
What I learned from reading The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience by Mark Olshaker.
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[1:42] The word “problem” had completely …
6 years, 2 months ago
#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)
What I learned from reading The Big Score: Robert Friedland and The Voisey’s Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish.
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[0:04] Promoting a stock is like making…
6 years, 2 months ago
#130 Walter Chrysler
What I learned from reading Life of an American Workman by Walter Chrysler.
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[0:56]The kitchen fire was the only heat we knew in the winter. Often …
6 years, 2 months ago
#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)
What I learned from reading How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis.
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[0:01] How Felix starte…
6 years, 2 months ago
#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)
What I learned from reading Master of Precision: Henry Leland by Ottilie Leland and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook.
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[0:17] Henry Leland laid the foundatio…
6 years, 3 months ago