Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)
What I learned from reading Born of This Land: My Life Story by Chung Ju-yung.
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For a long time I was known as the bulldozer. [0:01]
How Chung’s son …
6 years, 5 months ago
#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)
What I learned from reading Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram’s Mr. Sam by Michael R. Marrus.
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The story of Sam’s rise to fame and for…
6 years, 5 months ago
#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life
What I learned from reading Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson.
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He was, during his 84 year long life, America’s best scientist…
6 years, 5 months ago
#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
What I learned from reading The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Timeby Michael Craig.
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Some Texas…
6 years, 5 months ago
#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)
What I learned from reading Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
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T…
6 years, 5 months ago
#112 Frank Lloyd Wright
What I learned from reading Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson.
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[0:01] Frank Lloyd Wright suffered …
6 years, 6 months ago
#111 David Geffen
What I learned from reading The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Tom King.
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He told me he had recently read Buf…
6 years, 6 months ago
#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
What I learned from reading Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It by Dr. George Roberts.
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Henry was much …
6 years, 6 months ago
#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)
What I learned from reading Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and The Family Feud That Forever Changed The Business of Spo…
6 years, 6 months ago
#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)
What I learned from reading The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
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The story of the gre…
6 years, 7 months ago