149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-10-18
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He, uh, eventually they want to have a bond of $100,000 to make sure, hey, if I give this contract, I wanna…”
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Focus
“I'm going to focus all of, uh, my attention on the greatest oil field in Texas history." And it says, "And though…”
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People
“And they actually, actually wind up being some of the people that push Disney to hi- hire, uh, Eisner, actually.”
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Persistence
“He does that for a few years, and it says, "The real estate business," he noted years later, "was not exactly booming…”
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Capital
“His investors, he was acutely aware, were quickly losing their earlier profits.”
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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