68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-04-21
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Or I guess it's the way they, they design their products, right?”
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Focus
“It was that simple and had been all along.”
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People
“Remember at the beginning of the book, it talks about most people hire PR, um, firms to, to get their, their company's…”
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Persistence
“The Weco had already many years, was already many years past her prime.”
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
“Under the guise of the procure of mer- merchant shipping for wartime, it had become a cornucopia of profits for wily ship…”
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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