Founder Journeys

A source-linked library of entrepreneurial journeys drawn from long-form founder biographies and conversations. Each entry separates what the episode says from what we infer from it.

This library publishes original summaries, not full transcripts. The audio and source material remain with the original publisher.

Episodes

• Episode 1: Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and the limits of copying extreme risk
• 2 Walt Disney — transcript highlights
• 3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World — transcript highlights
• 4 The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy — transcript highlights
• 5 Steve Jobs — transcript highlights
• 6 Sam Walton — transcript highlights
• 7 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's — transcript highlights
• 8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company — transcript highlights
• 9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford — transcript highlights
• 10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike — transcript highlights
• 11 The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce — transcript highlights
• 12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World — transcript highlights
• 13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars — transcript highlights
• 14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal — transcript highlights
• 15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography — transcript highlights
• 16 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller — a bounded founder reading
• 17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — transcript highlights
• 18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman — transcript highlights
• 19 Becoming Steve Jobs — transcript highlights
• 20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business) — transcript highlights
• 21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture — transcript highlights
• 22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story — transcript highlights
• 23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story — transcript highlights
• 24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet — transcript highlights
• 25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson — transcript highlights
• 26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford — transcript highlights
• 27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur — transcript highlights
• 28 The Wright Brothers — transcript highlights
• 29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company — transcript highlights
• 30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — transcript highlights
• 31 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — transcript highlights
• 32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built — transcript highlights
• 33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World — transcript highlights
• 34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar — transcript highlights
• 35 George Lucas: A Life — transcript highlights
• 36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent — transcript highlights
• 37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King — transcript highlights
• 38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos — transcript highlights
• 39 Walt Disney: An American Original — transcript highlights
• 40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid — transcript highlights
• 41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — transcript highlights
• 42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization — transcript highlights
• 43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work — transcript highlights
• 44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft — transcript highlights
• 45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion — transcript highlights
• 46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story — transcript highlights
• 47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way — transcript highlights
• 48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson — transcript highlights
• 49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson — transcript highlights
• 50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive — transcript highlights
• 51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic — transcript highlights
• 52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders — transcript highlights
• 53 Who Is Michael Ovitz? — transcript highlights
• 54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt — transcript highlights
• 55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer — transcript highlights
• 56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher — transcript highlights
• 57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution — transcript highlights
• 58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life — transcript highlights
• 59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire — transcript highlights
• 60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years — transcript highlights
• 61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger — transcript highlights
• 62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — transcript highlights
• 63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich — transcript highlights
• 64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets — transcript highlights
• 65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History — transcript highlights
• 66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West — transcript highlights
• I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10! — transcript highlights
• 67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty — transcript highlights
• 68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire — transcript highlights
• 69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly — transcript highlights
• 70 Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital — transcript highlights
• 71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters — transcript highlights
• 72 Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel — transcript highlights
• 73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America — transcript highlights
• 74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie — transcript highlights
• 75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner — transcript highlights
• 76 Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple — transcript highlights
• 77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years) — transcript highlights
• 78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger) — transcript highlights
• 79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor) — transcript highlights
• 80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow) — transcript highlights
• 81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce) — transcript highlights
• 82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising) — transcript highlights
• 83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World — transcript highlights
• 84 Aristotle Onassis — transcript highlights
• 85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends) — transcript highlights
• 86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon) — transcript highlights
• 87 Thomas Watson (IBM) — transcript highlights
• 88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them! — transcript highlights
• 89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) — transcript highlights
• 90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack) — transcript highlights
• 91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett) — transcript highlights
• 92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon — transcript highlights
• 93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets) — transcript highlights
• 94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders) — transcript highlights
• 95 Claude Shannon — transcript highlights
• 96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest) — transcript highlights
• 97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford) — transcript highlights
• 98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire) — transcript highlights
• 99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business) — transcript highlights
• 100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball) — transcript highlights
• 101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett) — transcript highlights
• 102 Akio Morita (Sony) — transcript highlights
• 103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America) — transcript highlights
• 104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA) — transcript highlights
• 105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book) — transcript highlights
• 106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself) — transcript highlights
• 107 Sol Price (Costco) — transcript highlights
• 108 Jim Simons (Money Printer) — transcript highlights
• 109 Adi Dassler (Adidas) — transcript highlights
• 110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne) — transcript highlights
• 111 David Geffen — transcript highlights
• 112 Frank Lloyd Wright — transcript highlights
• 113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire) — transcript highlights
• 114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time — transcript highlights
• 115 Ben Franklin: An American Life — transcript highlights
• 116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty) — transcript highlights
• 117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read) — transcript highlights
• 118 Forty Years With Henry Ford — transcript highlights
• 119 The Dodge Brothers — transcript highlights
• 120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors) — transcript highlights
• 121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors) — transcript highlights
• 122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors) — transcript highlights
• 123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon) — transcript highlights
• 124 Larry Ellison and Oracle — transcript highlights
• 125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder) — transcript highlights
• 126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic) — transcript highlights
• 127 Larry Ellison (Oracle) — transcript highlights
• 128 Henry Leland (Cadillac) — transcript highlights
• 129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich) — transcript highlights
• 130 Walter Chrysler — transcript highlights
• 131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner) — transcript highlights
• 132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero) — transcript highlights
• 133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It) — transcript highlights
• 134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak) — transcript highlights
• 135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media) — transcript highlights
• 136 Estée Lauder — transcript highlights
• 137 P.T. Barnum — transcript highlights
• 138 Alexander Graham Bell — transcript highlights
• 139 J.P. Morgan — transcript highlights
• 140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire) — transcript highlights
• 141 Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story) — transcript highlights
• 142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan — transcript highlights
• 143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of) — transcript highlights
• 144 Ernest Shackleton — transcript highlights
• 145 William Randolph Hearst — transcript highlights
• 146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate) — transcript highlights
• 147 Sam Colt — transcript highlights
• 148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography) — transcript highlights
• 149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires) — transcript highlights
• 150 Sam Walton (America's Richest Man) — transcript highlights
• 151 Frederick Smith (FedEx) — transcript highlights
• 152 Katherine Graham (Washington Post) — transcript highlights
• 153 Bill Bowerman (Nike) — transcript highlights
• 154 Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown) — transcript highlights
• 155 Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches) — transcript highlights
• 156 Theodore Roosevelt — transcript highlights
• 157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — transcript highlights
• 158 Walt Disney (Disneyland) — transcript highlights
• 159 Andy Grove (Intel) — transcript highlights
• 160 Peter Cundill — transcript highlights
• 161 Dr. Seuss — transcript highlights
• 162 Chuck Yeager — transcript highlights
• 163 Alfred Nobel — transcript highlights
• 164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man) — transcript highlights
• 165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age) — transcript highlights
• 166 Robert Noyce (Intel) — transcript highlights
• 167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation) — transcript highlights
• 168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) — transcript highlights
• 169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue) — transcript highlights
• 170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising) — transcript highlights
• 171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away) — transcript highlights
• 172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX) — transcript highlights
• 173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios) — transcript highlights
• 174 Bill Gates (Overdrive) — transcript highlights
• 175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey — transcript highlights
• 176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) — transcript highlights
• 177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy) — transcript highlights
• 178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products — transcript highlights
• 179 Jeff Bezos — transcript highlights
• 180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire) — transcript highlights
• 181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos) — transcript highlights
• 182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist) — transcript highlights
• 183 Johnny Carson — transcript highlights
• 184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons) — transcript highlights
• 185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef) — transcript highlights
• 186 Phil Knight (Nike) — transcript highlights
• 187 Albert Einstein — transcript highlights
• 188 Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes) — transcript highlights
• 189 David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most) — transcript highlights
• 190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison — transcript highlights
• 191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness) — transcript highlights
• 192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS) — transcript highlights
• 193 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography) — transcript highlights
• 194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy) — transcript highlights
• 195 Sid Meier (Computer game designer) — transcript highlights
• 196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2) — transcript highlights
• 197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty — transcript highlights
• 198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty) — transcript highlights
• 199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life — transcript highlights
• 200 James Dyson (Against the Odds) — transcript highlights
• 201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero) — transcript highlights
• 202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett — transcript highlights
• 203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital) — transcript highlights
• 204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain) — transcript highlights
• 205 James Dyson (Invention: A Life) — transcript highlights
• 206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry) — transcript highlights
• 207 Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising) — transcript highlights
• 208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett — transcript highlights
• 209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography — transcript highlights
• 210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — transcript highlights
• 211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life — transcript highlights
• 212 Michael Jordan: The Life — transcript highlights
• 213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within — transcript highlights
• 214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography — transcript highlights
• 215: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius) — transcript highlights
• 216 Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans) — transcript highlights
• 217 Estée Lauder — transcript highlights
• 218 Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football) — transcript highlights
• 219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography — transcript highlights
• 220 Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine — transcript highlights
• 221 Charlie Munger — transcript highlights
• 222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint) — transcript highlights
• 223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend — transcript highlights
• 224 Charles de Gaulle — transcript highlights
• 225 Winston Churchill — transcript highlights
• 226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle — transcript highlights
• 227 The Essays of Warren Buffett — transcript highlights
• 228 Michael Bloomberg — transcript highlights
• 229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon) — transcript highlights
• 230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) — transcript highlights
• 231 William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts) — transcript highlights
• 232 Alexander the Great — transcript highlights
• 233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal) — transcript highlights
• 234 Sam Walton: Made In America — transcript highlights
• 235 Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story) — transcript highlights
• 236 Nims Purja (Mountain Climber) — transcript highlights
• 237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon) — transcript highlights
• 238 Jay Z: Decoded — transcript highlights
• 239 The Wright Brothers — transcript highlights
• 240 Mozart: A Life — transcript highlights
• 241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies — transcript highlights
• 242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life — transcript highlights
• 243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire) — transcript highlights
• 244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger) — transcript highlights
• 245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio) — transcript highlights
• 246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters — transcript highlights
• 247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner) — transcript highlights
• 248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan) — transcript highlights
• 249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words — transcript highlights
• 250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived) — transcript highlights
• 251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership — transcript highlights
• 252 Socrates — transcript highlights
• 253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs) — transcript highlights
• 254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers — transcript highlights
• 255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King) — transcript highlights
• 256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion) — transcript highlights
• 257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration) — transcript highlights
• 258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street) — transcript highlights
• 259 Bob Dylan — transcript highlights
• 260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization — transcript highlights
• 261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two — transcript highlights
• 262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator) — transcript highlights
• 263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It — transcript highlights
• 264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid — transcript highlights
• 265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader — transcript highlights
• 266 Henry Ford's Autobiography — transcript highlights
• 267 Thomas Edison — transcript highlights
• 268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy) — transcript highlights
• 269 Sam Zell — transcript highlights
• 270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action) — transcript highlights
• 271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century) — transcript highlights
• 272 Kobe Bryant (The Life) — transcript highlights
• 273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality) — transcript highlights
• 274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape) — transcript highlights
• 275 Paul Graham — transcript highlights
• 276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2 — transcript highlights
• 277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3 — transcript highlights
• 278 Peter Thiel — transcript highlights
• 279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett — transcript highlights
• 280 Jimi Hendrix — a bounded operating sequence
• 281 Working with Steve Jobs — transcript highlights
• 282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters — transcript highlights
• 283 Andrew Carnegie — transcript highlights
• 284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — transcript highlights
• 285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune) — transcript highlights
• 286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger — transcript highlights
• 287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce — transcript highlights
• 288 Ralph Lauren — transcript highlights
• 289 Brunello Cucinelli — transcript highlights
• 290 Bill Gates — transcript highlights
• 291 David Packard (Founder of HP) — transcript highlights
• 292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire) — transcript highlights
• 293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's) — transcript highlights
• 294 Napoleon — transcript highlights
• 295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger — transcript highlights
• 296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) — transcript highlights
• 297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) — transcript highlights
• 298 I had lunch with Sam Zell — transcript highlights
• 300 James Dyson (Against the Odds) — transcript highlights
• 301 Tiger Woods — transcript highlights
• 302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon) — transcript highlights
• 303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder) — transcript highlights
• 304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus) — transcript highlights
• 305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession — transcript highlights
• 306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) — transcript highlights
• 307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada — transcript highlights
• 308 The Founder of Glock — transcript highlights
• 309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful) — transcript highlights
• 310 Walt Disney and Picasso — transcript highlights
• 311 James Cameron — transcript highlights
• 312 Mark Twain — transcript highlights
• 313 Christopher Nolan — transcript highlights
• 314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work) — transcript highlights
• 315 Balenciaga — transcript highlights
• 316 Bugatti — transcript highlights
• 317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar) — transcript highlights
• 318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed) — transcript highlights
• 319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1 — transcript highlights
• 320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2 — transcript highlights
• 321 Working with Jeff Bezos — transcript highlights
• 322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) — transcript highlights
• 323 Jimmy Buffett — transcript highlights
• 324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son) — transcript highlights
• 325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer) — transcript highlights
• 326 Anna Wintour — transcript highlights
• 327 Ted Turner — transcript highlights
• 328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager) — transcript highlights
• 329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack): a bounded founder reading
• 330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book) — transcript highlights
• 331 Christian Dior — transcript highlights
• 332 Jesus — transcript highlights
• 333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz — transcript highlights
• 334 Oprah — transcript highlights
• 335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs — transcript highlights
• 336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull — transcript highlights
• 337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy — transcript highlights
• 338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire — transcript highlights
• 339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer — transcript highlights
• 340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant — transcript highlights
• 341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War) — transcript highlights
• 342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant) — transcript highlights
• 343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy — transcript highlights
• 344 Quentin Tarantino — transcript highlights
• 345 George Lucas — transcript highlights
• 346 How Walt Disney Built Himself — transcript highlights
• 347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland — transcript highlights
• 348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger — transcript highlights
• 349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple — transcript highlights
• 350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs — transcript highlights
• 351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf — transcript highlights
• 352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America — transcript highlights
• 353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty — transcript highlights
• 354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man — transcript highlights
• 355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview — transcript highlights
• 356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel) — transcript highlights
• 357 Haruki Murakami — transcript highlights
• 358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods — transcript highlights
• 359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty — transcript highlights
• 360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal — transcript highlights
• 361 Estée Lauder — transcript highlights
• 362 Li Lu — transcript highlights
• 363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett — transcript highlights
• 364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership — transcript highlights
• 365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners — transcript highlights
• 366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo — transcript highlights
• 367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell — transcript highlights
• 368 Rockefeller's Autobiography — transcript highlights
• 369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX — transcript highlights
• 370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad — transcript highlights
• 371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder — transcript highlights
• 372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group — transcript highlights
• 373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars — transcript highlights
• 374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview — transcript highlights
• 375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green — transcript highlights
• 376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia — transcript highlights
• 377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr. — transcript highlights
• 378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess — transcript highlights
• 379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys) — transcript highlights
• 380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words — transcript highlights
• 381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz — transcript highlights
• 382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood — transcript highlights
• 383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream — transcript highlights
• 384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities — a bounded founder reading
• 385 Michael Dell — transcript highlights
• 386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony — transcript highlights
• 387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine — transcript highlights
• 388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them! — transcript highlights
• 389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon — transcript highlights
• 390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview — transcript highlights
• 391 Jimmy Iovine: a bounded founder lesson about focus, leverage, and changing roles
• 392 Michele Ferrero: Building Under Scarcity, Then Protecting the Right to Experiment
• 393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers — transcript highlights
• 394 An Orphan Who Built an Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and the Founding of Luxottica
• 395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport — a bounded founder reading
• 396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari — transcript highlights
• 397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage — transcript highlights
• 398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful) — transcript highlights
• 399 How Elon Works — transcript highlights
• 400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson — transcript highlights
• 401 How Bill Gates Works — transcript highlights
• 402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything — transcript highlights
• 403 How Jensen Works — transcript highlights
• 404 How Larry Ellison Thinks — transcript highlights
• 405 How Rockefeller Worked — transcript highlights
• 406 Christian von Koenigsegg — transcript highlights
• 407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself
• 408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs — transcript highlights
• 409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin — transcript highlights
• 410 Excellent Advice for Living: a low-capital founder's reading
• 411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
• 412 How Roger Federer Works — a bounded founder reading
• 413 How To Run Down A Dream — a bounded founder reading
• 414 How SpaceX Works — transcript highlights
• 415 How Elon Thinks — transcript highlights
• 416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis — transcript highlights
• 417 Arnold Schwarzenegger — a disciplined path, not a startup formula
• 418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike — a capital-constrained founder's sequence
• 419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works
• 420 Steve Jobs In Exile — a bounded founder reading
• 421 Jony Ive — The Mechanics of Design Turnaround Under Severe Constraints
• 422 Joseph Pulitzer — a bounded founder reading
• 423 Soichiro Honda — a bounded founder reading
• 424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly — transcript highlights
• 425 The Merchant Bankers — a bounded founder reading
• 427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company — a bounded founder reading
• 428 How Claude Shannon Worked — Editorial Review
• 430 How to Write Ads That Sell — a constrained reading for founders
• A conversation on focus and finding your life's work
• A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast — transcript highlights
• Editorial proposal
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• Jay Z's Autobiography — transcript highlights
• Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets) — transcript highlights
• Michael Jordan (The Life) — transcript highlights
• Michael Jordan In His Own Words — transcript highlights
• Mike Bloomberg — transcript highlights
• My Conversation with Brad Jacobs — transcript highlights
• My Conversation with Michael Dell — transcript highlights
• My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify — transcript highlights
• My conversation with Todd Graves — transcript highlights
• Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder — transcript highlights
• Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger — transcript highlights
• Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale) — transcript highlights
• Steve Jobs and Edwin Land — transcript highlights
• Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful) — transcript highlights
• Steve Jobs and His Heroes — transcript highlights
• Steve Jobs's Heroes — transcript highlights
• Steven Spielberg — transcript highlights
• The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea — transcript highlights
• The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig — transcript highlights
• The Life of Jesus: a bounded founder reading
• The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai — transcript highlights
• The Singular Life of Rick Rubin — a bounded founder reading
• The best interview I've ever done about Founders — transcript highlights