285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2023-01-10
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“And so he's gonna make obviously a lot of money in building up and also trading on railroads.”
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Focus
“So again, I think s- focus and extreme, extreme focus is a superpower that is, in my opinion, almost going extinct in…”
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People
“No crews to supervise, no steaming vats of boiling hides, no broking s- broken steam engines, engines, no odor so vile that…”
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Persistence
“I'm no longer doing these short daily, uh, episodes anymore, but instead I'm doing long-form AMA Ask Me Anything questions.”
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Capital
“Sometimes, this happens from time to time when I find a new book and I cannot stop reading it and I cannot…”
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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