55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-01-14
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Product
“Not only do you get, like, all the stuff I do every week, but you unlock, like, the 20 past ones I've…”
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Focus
“But what I also wanna experiment is, like, what if I just took one idea And focused a, a, a shorter version…”
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People
“First, his fleets of steamboats and ocean steamers plying North American rivers and the world's oceans, and later, after the s- American…”
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Persistence
“Okay, so now we're gonna be introduced into, uh, to William Walker, who I think is about 20 years, maybe 25 years…”
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Capital
“Morgan made $10 a share, walking away with profit of millions of dollars." Again, that's millions of dollars in, in 1800 money…”
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