120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-04-11
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“A, a company that makes wheels and axles, um, one that makes just carriages, one that makes just the spokes of the…”
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Focus
“But his inability to focus was really a downside.”
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People
“Durant was extremely gifted leader, but there were some people that were not born to be yes-men, and inevitably they had to…”
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Persistence
“Except by then, he was 78 years old and no longer wealthy, and his business was bowling, not automobiles.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“They then take that money and then are investing in and loaning money, sometimes on an equity basis, sometimes on a debt…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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