237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2022-03-16
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Like, make a product or service that makes somebody else's life better, right?”
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Focus
“The trouble was that it was really tough to fight the decision of a man who had such a record of good…”
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People
“So they go around targeting people, robbing people, and now they're starting to try to assassinate very rich business people in Cuba.”
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Persistence
“It's like you have this huge, like smart, capable man making mistake after mistake after mistake.”
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
“"There are times when chasing the things money can buy, one loses sight of the things which money can't buy and are…”
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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