Founders

From:David Senra

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Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen

#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)

6 years
#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
1 h 18m

#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)

6 years
#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
54m

#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)

6 years
#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)
1 h 1m

#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)

6 years
#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)
1 h 3m

#130 Walter Chrysler

6 years
#130 Walter Chrysler
1 h 8m

#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)

6 years
#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)
59m

#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)

6 years
#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)
1 h 9m

#127 Larry Ellison (Oracle)

6 years
#127 Larry Ellison (Oracle)
59m

#126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)

6 years
#126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)
1 h 8m

#125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)

6 years
#125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)
1 h 11m

#124 Larry Ellison and Oracle

6 years
#124 Larry Ellison and Oracle
1 h 11m

#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)

6 years
#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)
1 h 4m

#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors)

6 years
#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
1 h 5m

#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)

6 years
#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
1 h 22m

#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)

6 years
#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)
1 h 11m

#119 The Dodge Brothers

6 years
#119 The Dodge Brothers
53m

#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford

6 years
#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford
1 h 20m

#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)

6 years
#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)
1 h 20m

#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)

6 years
#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)
1 h 7m

#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life

6 years
#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life
45m

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

6 years
#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
1 h 20m

#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)

6 years
#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)
1 h 8m

#112 Frank Lloyd Wright

6 years
#112 Frank Lloyd Wright
1 h 20m

#111 David Geffen

6 years
#111 David Geffen
1 h 22m

#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)

6 years
#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
1 h 25m

#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)

6 years
#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)
1 h 13m

#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)

6 years
#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)
1 h 7m

#107 Sol Price (Costco)

6 years
#107 Sol Price (Costco)
1 h 8m

#106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)

6 years
#106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)
1 h 6m

#105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

6 years
#105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
1 h 19m