83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-08-04
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Product
“It's like, no, no, we're gonna make profits so we can make products that make the world better.”
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Focus
“And, and if you focus on, hey, we don't have to focus on good enough.”
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People
“They don't wanna hang people anymore, so they're asking people to come up with different, like, more humane ways of killing people…”
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Persistence
“Um, and it took years and years and years.”
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
“So I bring that up because inevitably, whatever you're working on, uh, sometimes it's, it's customers, sometimes it's your own family, sometimes…”
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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