PodBud
Founders

Founders

Business

by David Senra

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week David Senra reads a biography of an entrepreneur and finds ideas you can use in your work.

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Episodes (438)

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#413 How To Run Down A Dream

Mar 3, 202631m
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#412 How Roger Federer Works

Feb 19, 202648m
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#411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi

Feb 4, 20261h 1m
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#410 Excellent Advice for Living

Jan 25, 202637m
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The Singular Life of Rick Rubin

Jan 16, 20261h 20m
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#409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin

Jan 8, 202643m
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#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

Dec 29, 202543m
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The Life of Jesus

Dec 25, 202534m
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#407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself

Dec 14, 20251h 12m
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#406 Christian von Koenigsegg

Dec 3, 202545m
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Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder

Nov 25, 202559m
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#405 How Rockefeller Worked

Nov 17, 202558m
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My conversation with Todd Graves

Nov 9, 20252h 0m
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#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks

Nov 4, 20251h 2m
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My Conversation with Brad Jacobs

Oct 28, 20252h 4m
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#403 How Jensen Works

Oct 20, 202555m
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My Conversation with Michael Dell

Oct 13, 20251h 32m
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#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything

Oct 5, 202531m
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My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify

Sep 28, 20252h 9m
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#401 How Bill Gates Works

Sep 24, 20251h 8m
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#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson

Sep 12, 20251h 13m
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#399 How Elon Works

Aug 25, 20251h 33m
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#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)

Aug 14, 20252h 1m
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#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage

Aug 4, 202541m
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#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari

Jul 30, 202557m
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#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

Jul 22, 20251h 4m
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#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica

Jul 13, 20251h 7m
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#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers

Jul 3, 202554m
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#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire

Jun 23, 202554m
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#391 Jimmy Iovine

Jun 13, 202557m
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#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview

Jun 4, 202540m
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#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon

May 26, 202555m
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#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!

May 15, 20251h 19m
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A conversation on focus and finding your life's work

May 9, 20251h 22m
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#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine

May 1, 20251h 8m
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#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony

Apr 22, 20251h 11m
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#385 Michael Dell

Apr 14, 20251h 48m
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#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities

Apr 1, 20251h 6m
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The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig

Mar 23, 202550m
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#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream

Mar 17, 20251h 8m
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#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood

Mar 7, 20251h 31m
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#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz

Mar 7, 202527m
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#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words

Feb 25, 20251h 21m
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#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)

Feb 18, 202559m
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#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess

Feb 10, 202553m
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#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.

Jan 27, 20251h 3m
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#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia

Jan 13, 20251h 40m
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#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green

Jan 6, 202553m
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The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai

Dec 27, 20241h 15m
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#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview

Dec 15, 202436m
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#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars

Dec 6, 20241h 33m
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#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group

Nov 29, 202449m
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#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder

Nov 18, 202458m
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#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad

Nov 12, 20241h 5m
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#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX

Nov 1, 20241h 3m
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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land

Oct 20, 20241h 2m
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#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography

Oct 15, 202455m
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#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell

Oct 8, 202450m
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#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo

Sep 27, 202444m
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#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners

Sep 16, 202455m
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#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership

Sep 10, 202444m
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#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett

Sep 6, 20241h 24m
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#362 Li Lu

Aug 26, 202437m
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#361 Estée Lauder

Aug 18, 202458m
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#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal

Aug 12, 202456m
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#359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty

Aug 7, 20241h 6m
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#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods

Jul 28, 20241h 34m
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#357 Haruki Murakami

Jul 21, 202459m
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#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)

Jul 12, 202458m
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#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview

Jul 4, 202444m
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#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man

Jun 29, 20241h 32m
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#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty

Jun 23, 20241h 4m
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#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America

Jun 15, 20241h 29m
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#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf

Jun 4, 202457m
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#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs

May 27, 202447m
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#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple

May 20, 202452m
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Michael Jordan In His Own Words

May 12, 20241h 35m
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#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger

May 7, 20241h 15m
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#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland

Apr 29, 20241h 17m
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#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself

Apr 22, 20241h 47m
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#345 George Lucas

Apr 12, 20241h 59m
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Steven Spielberg

Apr 4, 20241h 38m
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#344 Quentin Tarantino

Mar 30, 20241h 6m
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#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy

Mar 24, 202432m
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#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

Mar 18, 202453m
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#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)

Mar 11, 20241h 5m
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#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

Mar 1, 20241h 23m
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Jay Z's Autobiography

Feb 25, 20242h 7m
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#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer

Feb 20, 20241h 4m
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#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire

Feb 13, 202459m
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#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy

Feb 5, 20241h 0m
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#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull

Feb 1, 20241h 25m
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#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

Jan 23, 20241h 12m
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#334 Oprah

Jan 16, 20241h 9m
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#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz

Jan 8, 20241h 8m
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#332 Jesus

Dec 24, 202334m
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#331 Christian Dior

Dec 18, 20231h 0m
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#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

Dec 11, 20231h 37m
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#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

Dec 5, 20231h 54m
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Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger

Nov 29, 202330m
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#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)

Nov 22, 202342m
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#327 Ted Turner

Nov 14, 20231h 26m
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#326 Anna Wintour

Nov 6, 20231h 12m
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#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)

Oct 29, 20231h 11m
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#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)

Oct 21, 20231h 46m
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Mike Bloomberg

Oct 10, 20231h 20m
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#323 Jimmy Buffett

Oct 3, 20231h 5m
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#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)

Sep 26, 202343m
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#321 Working with Jeff Bezos

Sep 21, 202357m
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#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2

Sep 14, 202354m
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Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)

Sep 11, 20231h 29m
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#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

Sep 5, 202348m
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The best interview I've ever done about Founders

Sep 3, 20231h 21m
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#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)

Aug 27, 202347m
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#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)

Aug 21, 20231h 5m
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#316 Bugatti

Aug 14, 202358m
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#315 Balenciaga

Aug 7, 202336m
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#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)

Jul 31, 202357m
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#313 Christopher Nolan

Jul 25, 202348m
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#312 Mark Twain

Jul 19, 202355m
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#311 James Cameron

Jul 12, 20231h 11m
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#310 Walt Disney and Picasso

Jul 4, 202351m
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Michael Jordan (The Life)

Jun 30, 20231h 39m
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#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)

Jun 26, 202339m
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#308 The Founder of Glock

Jun 19, 202340m
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#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada

Jun 12, 20231h 2m
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#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

Jun 5, 202348m
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#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession

May 29, 202354m
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#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)

May 22, 202359m
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#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)

May 14, 202332m
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#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

May 8, 202350m
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#301 Tiger Woods

May 1, 20231h 3m
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#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

Apr 24, 20231h 21m
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#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)

Apr 17, 20232h 0m
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#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell

Apr 10, 20231h 30m
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#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)

Apr 3, 202359m
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A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast

Mar 29, 20233h 9m
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#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)

Mar 27, 20231h 7m
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#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger

Mar 21, 20231h 17m
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#294 Napoleon

Mar 13, 202343m
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#293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's)

Mar 6, 202352m
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#292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)

Feb 27, 202346m
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#291 David Packard (Founder of HP)

Feb 20, 202347m
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#290 Bill Gates

Feb 13, 202347m
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#289 Brunello Cucinelli

Feb 7, 202353m
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#288 Ralph Lauren

Jan 31, 20231h 1m
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#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce

Jan 23, 202331m
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#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

Jan 16, 20231h 10m
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#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune)

Jan 10, 202359m
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#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick

Jan 2, 20231h 7m
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#283 Andrew Carnegie

Dec 26, 202252m
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#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters

Dec 19, 20221h 10m
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#281 Working with Steve Jobs

Dec 12, 202241m
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The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea

Dec 9, 20221h 14m
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#280 Jimi Hendrix

Dec 6, 202254m
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#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett

Nov 29, 202256m
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#278 Peter Thiel

Nov 22, 202256m
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#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3

Nov 17, 202247m
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#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2

Nov 9, 202242m
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#275 Paul Graham

Nov 3, 20221h 19m
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#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)

Oct 27, 202253m
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#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)

Oct 26, 202231m
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#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)

Oct 19, 202255m
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#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)

Oct 12, 202253m
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#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)

Oct 6, 20221h 5m
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#269 Sam Zell

Sep 29, 20221h 8m
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#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)

Sep 21, 20221h 1m
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#267 Thomas Edison

Sep 14, 20221h 10m
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#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography

Sep 8, 20221h 13m
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#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

Aug 30, 20221h 26m
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#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid

Aug 24, 202254m
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#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It

Aug 18, 20221h 11m
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#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)

Aug 11, 202259m
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#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two

Aug 4, 202239m
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#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

Aug 3, 20221h 21m
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#259 Bob Dylan

Jul 27, 20221h 18m
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#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)

Jul 22, 20221h 39m
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#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)

Jul 15, 20221h 18m
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#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)

Jul 9, 20221h 18m
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#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)

Jul 2, 20221h 29m
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#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

Jun 27, 20221h 40m
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#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)

Jun 22, 202256m
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#252 Socrates

Jun 17, 202247m
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#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership

Jun 13, 202257m
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#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)

Jun 8, 202257m
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Steve Jobs's Heroes

Jun 2, 202230m
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#249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words

Jun 1, 202249m
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#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan)

May 28, 20221h 50m
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#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)

May 19, 20221h 16m
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#246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters

May 13, 202255m
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#245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio)

May 8, 20221h 21m
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#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)

May 3, 20221h 5m
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#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)

Apr 25, 20221h 16m
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#242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life

Apr 21, 20221h 29m
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#241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

Apr 14, 20221h 27m
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#240 Mozart: A Life

Apr 7, 202245m
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Steve Jobs and His Heroes

Apr 1, 202230m
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#239 The Wright Brothers

Mar 29, 20221h 33m
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#238 Jay Z: Decoded

Mar 23, 20221h 58m
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#237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon)

Mar 16, 20221h 10m
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#236 Nims Purja (Mountain Climber)

Mar 11, 20221h 4m
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#235 Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story)

Mar 7, 20221h 18m
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#234 Sam Walton: Made In America

Feb 28, 20221h 55m
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#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)

Feb 23, 20221h 53m
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#232 Alexander the Great

Feb 16, 20221h 2m
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#231 William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts)

Feb 12, 20221h 18m
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#230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star)

Feb 7, 20221h 3m
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#229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)

Jan 30, 20221h 34m
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#228 Michael Bloomberg

Jan 27, 20221h 20m
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I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10!

Jan 24, 202212m
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#227 The Essays of Warren Buffett

Jan 20, 20221h 56m
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#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle

Jan 12, 20221h 6m
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#225 Winston Churchill

Jan 9, 20221h 22m
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#224 Charles de Gaulle

Jan 5, 20221h 49m
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#223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend

Dec 29, 20211h 15m
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#222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint)

Dec 20, 20211h 38m
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#221 Charlie Munger

Dec 13, 20211h 24m
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#220 Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine

Dec 9, 20211h 22m
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#219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography

Nov 30, 20211h 46m
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#218 Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football)

Nov 25, 202158m
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#217 Estée Lauder

Nov 18, 20211h 22m
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#216 Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans)

Nov 14, 20211h 29m
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#215: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius)

Nov 9, 202157m
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#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Nov 3, 20212h 12m
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#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within

Oct 27, 20211h 7m
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#212 Michael Jordan: The Life

Oct 23, 20211h 37m
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#211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life

Oct 16, 20211h 15m
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#210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Oct 10, 20211h 9m
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#209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography

Oct 6, 20211h 10m
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#208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett

Sep 29, 20211h 21m
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#207 Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising)

Sep 26, 202150m
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#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)

Sep 23, 20211h 36m
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#205 James Dyson (Invention: A Life)

Sep 18, 20211h 52m
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#204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain)

Sep 14, 202158m
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#203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)

Sep 8, 20211h 27m
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#202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett

Sep 2, 20211h 7m
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#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)

Aug 30, 20211h 13m
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#200 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

Aug 27, 20212h 14m
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#199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Aug 20, 20211h 3m
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#198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)

Aug 18, 20211h 15m
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#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty

Aug 11, 20211h 17m
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#196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)

Aug 7, 20211h 19m
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#195 Sid Meier (Computer game designer)

Jul 31, 20211h 13m
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#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)

Jul 27, 20211h 17m
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#193 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography)

Jul 22, 202158m
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#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)

Jul 19, 20211h 7m
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#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)

Jul 13, 20211h 5m
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#190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison

Jul 10, 202159m
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#189 David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most)

Jul 5, 202159m
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#188 Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes)

Jun 28, 20211h 15m
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#187 Albert Einstein

Jun 22, 20211h 25m
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#186 Phil Knight (Nike)

Jun 16, 20211h 42m
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#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)

Jun 10, 20211h 22m
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#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)

Jun 6, 20211h 16m
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#183 Johnny Carson

Jun 4, 20211h 17m
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#182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist)

May 29, 20211h 12m
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#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)

May 23, 20211h 13m
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#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)

May 17, 20211h 3m
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Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)

May 13, 20211h 3m
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#179 Jeff Bezos

May 10, 20211h 21m
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#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

May 3, 20211h 21m
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#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)

Apr 26, 20211h 9m
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#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)

Apr 18, 202152m
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#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Apr 11, 20211h 19m
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#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)

Apr 5, 202148m
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#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)

Mar 28, 20211h 9m
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#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)

Mar 21, 20211h 5m
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#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)

Mar 15, 20211h 9m
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#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)

Mar 8, 20211h 19m
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#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)

Mar 1, 20211h 28m
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#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)

Feb 21, 20211h 8m
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#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation)

Feb 19, 202156m
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#166 Robert Noyce (Intel)

Feb 8, 20211h 12m
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#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)

Feb 1, 20211h 2m
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#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)

Jan 25, 20211h 5m
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#163 Alfred Nobel

Jan 18, 20211h 1m
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#162 Chuck Yeager

Jan 11, 20211h 19m
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#161 Dr. Seuss

Jan 4, 20211h 6m
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#160 Peter Cundill

Dec 28, 20201h 9m
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#159 Andy Grove (Intel)

Dec 21, 20201h 10m
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#158 Walt Disney (Disneyland)

Dec 14, 202051m
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#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Dec 7, 202058m
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#156 Theodore Roosevelt

Nov 30, 202056m
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#155 Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches)

Nov 23, 20201h 8m
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#154 Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)

Nov 19, 202052m
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#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)

Nov 12, 20201h 18m
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#152 Katherine Graham (Washington Post)

Nov 5, 20201h 3m
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#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)

Oct 29, 20201h 7m
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#150 Sam Walton (America's Richest Man)

Oct 24, 202054m
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#149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires)

Oct 18, 20201h 10m
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#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)

Oct 11, 202057m
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#147 Sam Colt

Oct 5, 20201h 8m
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#146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate)

Sep 27, 202049m
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#145 William Randolph Hearst

Sep 20, 20201h 5m
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#144 Ernest Shackleton

Sep 13, 202055m
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#143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of)

Sep 6, 202056m
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#142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan

Aug 30, 202051m
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#141 Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story)

Aug 23, 20201h 3m
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#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)

Aug 16, 202055m
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#139 J.P. Morgan

Aug 9, 20201h 8m
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#138 Alexander Graham Bell

Aug 2, 20201h 0m
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#137 P.T. Barnum

Jul 26, 20201h 2m
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#136 Estée Lauder

Jul 18, 202044m
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#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)

Jul 12, 20201h 7m
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#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)

Jul 1, 20201h 18m
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#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)

Jun 25, 202054m
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#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)

Jun 20, 20201h 1m
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#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)

Jun 14, 20201h 3m
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#130 Walter Chrysler

Jun 9, 20201h 8m
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#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)

Jun 4, 202059m
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#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)

May 31, 20201h 9m
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#127 Larry Ellison (Oracle)

May 25, 202059m
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#126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)

May 20, 20201h 8m
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#125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)

May 15, 20201h 11m
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#124 Larry Ellison and Oracle

May 9, 20201h 11m
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#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)

May 1, 20201h 4m
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#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors)

Apr 26, 20201h 5m
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#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)

Apr 19, 20201h 22m
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#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)

Apr 11, 20201h 11m
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#119 The Dodge Brothers

Apr 5, 202053m
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#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford

Mar 31, 20201h 20m
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#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)

Mar 26, 20201h 20m
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#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)

Mar 21, 20201h 7m
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#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life

Mar 16, 202045m
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#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

Mar 9, 20201h 20m
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#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)

Mar 5, 20201h 8m
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#112 Frank Lloyd Wright

Feb 24, 20201h 20m
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#111 David Geffen

Feb 16, 20201h 22m
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#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)

Feb 10, 20201h 25m
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#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)

Feb 3, 20201h 13m
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#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)

Jan 26, 20201h 7m
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#107 Sol Price (Costco)

Jan 20, 20201h 8m
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#106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)

Jan 12, 20201h 6m
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#105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

Jan 5, 20201h 19m
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#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)

Dec 30, 20191h 22m
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#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)

Dec 22, 20191h 1m
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#102 Akio Morita (Sony)

Dec 15, 20191h 16m
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#101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)

Dec 8, 201942m
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#100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball)

Dec 1, 20191h 26m
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#99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)

Nov 24, 20191h 18m
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#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)

Nov 18, 20191h 2m
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#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)

Nov 10, 201954m
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#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)

Nov 4, 201958m
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#95 Claude Shannon

Oct 27, 20191h 5m
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#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)

Oct 20, 20191h 20m
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#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)

Oct 13, 20191h 7m
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#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon

Oct 7, 20191h 22m
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#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)

Sep 29, 20191h 1m
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#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)

Sep 22, 20191h 37m
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#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

Sep 15, 20191h 20m
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#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!

Sep 8, 20193h 1m
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#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)

Sep 1, 20191h 12m
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#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)

Aug 25, 20191h 21m
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#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)

Aug 18, 20191h 9m
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#84 Aristotle Onassis

Aug 11, 20191h 28m
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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

Aug 4, 20191h 50m
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#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)

Jul 28, 20191h 3m
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#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)

Jul 22, 20191h 11m
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#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)

Jul 14, 201945m
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#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)

Jul 7, 20191h 12m
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#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)

Jun 30, 201958m
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#77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years)

Jun 23, 20191h 37m
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#76 Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple

Jun 16, 20191h 13m
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#75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner

Jun 9, 20191h 22m
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#74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Jun 2, 201955m
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#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America

May 26, 20191h 32m
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#72 Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel

May 19, 201959m
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#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters

May 12, 20191h 47m
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#70 Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital

May 6, 201959m
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#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly

Apr 28, 20191h 12m
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#68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire

Apr 21, 20191h 26m
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#67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty

Apr 14, 20191h 25m
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#66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West

Apr 7, 20191h 24m
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#65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History

Mar 31, 20191h 10m
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#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets

Mar 24, 201958m
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#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

Mar 10, 20191h 24m
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#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Mar 4, 20191h 7m
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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Feb 25, 20191h 29m
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#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years

Feb 18, 20191h 11m
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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire

Feb 11, 20191h 51m
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#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

Feb 4, 201957m
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#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution

Jan 28, 20191h 29m
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#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher

Jan 22, 20191h 9m
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#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer

Jan 14, 20191h 23m
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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Jan 8, 20191h 29m
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#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?

Jan 1, 20191h 46m
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#52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders

Dec 25, 20181h 31m
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#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic

Dec 17, 20181h 27m
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#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive

Dec 11, 20181h 4m
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#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson

Dec 3, 201840m
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#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson

Nov 26, 20181h 16m
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#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Nov 19, 20181h 12m
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#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story

Nov 13, 20181h 11m
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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion

Nov 5, 20181h 20m
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#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

Oct 30, 20181h 22m
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#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work

Oct 22, 20181h 2m
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#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

Oct 16, 20181h 27m
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#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Oct 8, 201859m
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#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid

Oct 2, 20181h 9m
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#39 Walt Disney: An American Original

Sep 24, 20181h 35m
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#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

Sep 17, 20181h 30m
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#37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

Sep 9, 20181h 21m
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#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

Sep 3, 201844m
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#35 George Lucas: A Life

Aug 26, 20181h 21m
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#34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar

Aug 20, 20181h 27m
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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

Aug 12, 20181h 19m
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#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

Aug 9, 20181h 48m
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#31 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Aug 2, 20182h 38m
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#30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Jul 9, 201838m
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#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

Jul 2, 201839m
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#28 The Wright Brothers

Jun 25, 201841m
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#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur

Jun 15, 20181h 24m
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#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford

May 2, 201852m
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#25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson

Apr 22, 20181h 25m
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#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

Apr 15, 20181h 15m
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#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Apr 7, 20181h 1m
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#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

Mar 20, 20181h 3m
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#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

Mar 1, 20181h 28m
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#20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)

Feb 6, 201843m
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#19 Becoming Steve Jobs

Jan 19, 20181h 13m
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#18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Jan 8, 201856m
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#17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Jan 1, 20181h 3m
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#16 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

Dec 8, 20171h 3m
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#15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography

Nov 17, 201746m
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#14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal

Sep 17, 201738m
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#13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

Aug 27, 201755m
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#12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World

Aug 20, 201741m
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#11 The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce

Aug 13, 201745m
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#10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Jul 27, 20171h 4m
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#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

Jul 10, 20171h 10m
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#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

Jun 20, 20171h 0m
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#7 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

May 27, 20171h 3m
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#6 Sam Walton

May 14, 20171h 4m
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#5 Steve Jobs

Apr 30, 20171h 35m
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#4 The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Apr 19, 201757m
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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World

Mar 24, 20171h 26m
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#2 Walt Disney

Oct 10, 20161h 17m
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#1 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Sep 19, 201658m