I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10! — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2022-01-24
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“It's great that you can make a good product, but that's not enough.”
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People
“So David Ogilvy, Albert Lasker, all these other people.”
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Persistence
“And number three, they wanna avoid their worst mistakes.”
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Capital
“I'm definitely going to reread the first 113 pages of this book probably multiple times throughout my lifetime.”
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Episode
“So like the title says, I read 66 biographies last year.”
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