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

#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)

6 years
#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
1 h 22m

#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)

6 years
#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)
1 h 1m

#102 Akio Morita (Sony)

6 years
#102 Akio Morita (Sony)
1 h 16m

#101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)

6 years
#101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)
42m

#100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball)

6 years
#100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball)
1 h 26m

#99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)

6 years
#99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)
1 h 18m

#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)

6 years
#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)
1 h 2m

#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)

6 years
#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)
54m

#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)

7 years
#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)
58m

#95 Claude Shannon

7 years
#95 Claude Shannon
1 h 5m

#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)

7 years
#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)
1 h 20m

#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)

7 years
#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)
1 h 7m

#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon

7 years
#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
1 h 22m

#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)

7 years
#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)
1 h 1m

#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)

7 years
#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)
1 h 37m

#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

7 years
#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
1 h 20m

#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!

7 years
#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!
3 h 1m

#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)

7 years
#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)
1 h 12m

#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)

7 years
#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)
1 h 21m

#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)

7 years
#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)
1 h 9m

#84 Aristotle Onassis

7 years
#84 Aristotle Onassis
1 h 28m

#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

7 years
#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
1 h 50m

#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)

7 years
#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
1 h 3m

#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)

7 years
#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)
1 h 11m

#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)

7 years
#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)
45m

#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)

7 years
#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)
1 h 12m

#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)

7 years
#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)
58m

#77 Steve Jobs (the bizarro years of Steve Jobs)

7 years
#77 Steve Jobs (the bizarro years of Steve Jobs)
1 h 37m

#76 Young Steve Jobs (the Creation of Apple)

7 years
#76 Young Steve Jobs (the Creation of Apple)
1 h 13m

#75 Henry Clay Frick (The Life of the Perfect Capitalist)

7 years
#75 Henry Clay Frick (The Life of the Perfect Capitalist)
1 h 22m