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#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing family in Japan, Akio eschewed the traditional path to forge his own legacy in electronics.
#385 Michael Dell
This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his company with $1000 when he was 19 years old. The revenues for the first 16 years of Dell look like this: 1984 $6M 1985 $33M 1986 $67M 1987 $1
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who is the smartest person you know" and "Who do you think has the best business?". "Ken Griffin" is a very common answer. I've heard Ken describ
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biographies of history's greatest founders and this book is one of my all time favorites. Daniel Ludwig started his company at 19 and was working
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's maxim: Find a simple idea and take it seriously. Todd wanted to create a quick service restaurant that only focused on quality chicken finger m
#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
At the core of Michael Ovitz's success is his relentless work ethic and commitment to mastering his craft. 50 years ago he founded Creative Artists Agency. CAA starts out as just five young guys in a run down office and eventually becomes t
#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz
What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz. 1: Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. 2: There's no ceiling on where you can push your profession. 3: Don't be unequally yoke
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
For over 30 years the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meetings were recorded. Munger and Buffett answered over 1700 questions from shareholders during that period. Alex Morris watched hundreds of hours of these meetings and then he gathered, orga
#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
Jerry Jones rolled the dice until his knuckles bled. He started working at 7 years old. Jerry could sell, sell, sell. He sold fruit at his father’s grocery store in grade school and sold shoes out of the trunk of his car in college. After f
#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great Depression. At 19 you see an opportunity where others see nothing. You start “a little fuel delivery business” with one used truck. Five yea
#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
Marcus Wallenberg Jr's impact on Swedish industry was so substantial that during the 1970s, Wallenberg family businesses employed about 40% of Sweden's industrial workforce and represented 40% of the total worth of the Stockholm stock marke
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
What I learned from reading The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant (https://amzn.to/4h32atI) by Tae Kim. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your
#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets and were reported in major newspapers. She was a one woman bank and the single biggest individual financier in the world. She took no partner
The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai
Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the richest person in Korea. When Chung was in his 80s, he wrote an autobiography that tells the devastating reality of growing up in dire pover
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
Jeff Bezos on retirement being lame, AI, the electricity metaphor for AI, the good fortune of being alive during multiple golden ages, long term life long passions, refusing to underestimate opportunity, dancing with curiosity, inventing, w
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
Brad Jacobs is one of the most talented living entrepreneurs. Brad has started 8 different billion dollar or multi-billion dollar businesses. He has done over 500 acquisitions and has raised over $30 billion. He started his first company at
#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group
Amancio Ortega is one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ortega is the founder of Inditex, a pioneer of fast fashion, an entrepreneur with over 60 years of experience, and has created a business model that is studied in universities tha
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
What I learned from rereading James J. Hill: Empire Builder (https://amzn.to/40Yj47M) by Michael P. Malone. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operatio
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story (https://amzn.to/3UMWon7) by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull and The Testament of a Furniture Dealer (https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/-/media/InterIKEA/IGI/Financial%20Reports/E
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (https://amzn.to/36nCdGk) by Eric Berger. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and
Steve Jobs and Edwin Land
What I learned from rereading Instant: The Story of Polaroid (https://amzn.to/3Cslm35) by Christopher Bonanos. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial opera
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography
What I learned from rereading Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (https://amzn.to/4h8kkes) by John D. Rockefeller. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financi
#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
What I learned from reading Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks: Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell (https://amzn.to/3BBxqR6) by Ben Johnson. ---- Ramp (https://ramp.com/) gives you everything you need to control spend, watch
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
What I learned from reading How To Succeed in Mr. Beast Production (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUSa7Y3J/view) and how ideas from Sam Zell, Charlie Munger, Nick Sleep, Warren Buffett, Sam Zemurray, Bob Kierlin,
#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
The best investors are not investors at all. They're entrepreneurs who have never sold. — Nick Sleep Nick Sleep’s letters are a masterclass on the importance of understanding the underlying reality of a business — what he calls the engine o
#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership
How Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria built their radically unconventional investment partnership. From the incredible book Richer, Wiser, Happier: How The World's Greatest Investors Win In Markets and Life (https://amzn.to/3AWwOoJ) by William Gr
#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
I sent a friend this text: I'm working on another Li Lu episode but this one is about his remarkable investing career. Can be summarized by: 1. Studied Buffett and Munger. 2. Did that. Last episode was about how Li Lu survived one of the mo
#362 Li Lu
Charlie Munger said that Li Lu was the only outsider he ever trusted with his money. Decades before Li Lu made Munger half a billion dollars, Li survived one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable: Born into poverty, abandoned, hungry,
#361 Estée Lauder
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said it was a crime that more business schools didn't study Henry Singleton. I think it's a crime that more entrepreneurs don't study Estée Lauder. She is one of the best founders to ever do it. This is the
#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
Since its founding in 1967 Fastenal has grown from a small fastener store in Winona, Minnesota, into a multibillion-dollar global organization. How did a small town “nuts and bolts” shop become one of the world's most dynamic growth compani
