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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

#74 Andrew Carnegie

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#74 Andrew Carnegie
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#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick (their bitter partnership)

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#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick (their bitter partnership)
1 h 32m

#72 Stan Lee (Marvel)

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#72 Stan Lee (Marvel)
59m

#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters. All of them.

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#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters. All of them.
1 h 47m

#70 Mark Spitznagel (Hedge Fund)

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#70 Mark Spitznagel (Hedge Fund)
59m

#69 Charles Goodyear (Rubber Monopoly)

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#69 Charles Goodyear (Rubber Monopoly)
1 h 12m

#68 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)

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#68 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)
1 h 26m

#67 Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotel Dynasty)

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#67 Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotel Dynasty)
1 h 25m

#66 Henry Kaiser (Founder of 100 companies)

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#66 Henry Kaiser (Founder of 100 companies)
1 h 24m

#65 Kirk Kerkorian (Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History)

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#65 Kirk Kerkorian (Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History)
1 h 10m

#64 Coco Chanel (Her Life and Secrets)

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#64 Coco Chanel (Her Life and Secrets)
58m

#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

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#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
1 h 24m

#62 Benjamin Franklin (Autobiography)

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#62 Benjamin Franklin (Autobiography)
1 h 7m

#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
1 h 29m

#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years

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#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
1 h 11m

#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire

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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
1 h 51m

#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

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#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
57m

#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution

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#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
1 h 29m

#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher

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#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher
1 h 9m

#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer

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#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
1 h 23m

#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
1 h 29m

#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?

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#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?
1 h 46m

#52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders

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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
1 h 31m

#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic

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#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
1 h 27m

#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive

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#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive
1 h 4m

#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson

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#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
40m

#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson

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#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
1 h 16m

#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

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#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
1 h 12m

#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story

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#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story
1 h 11m

#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion

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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
1 h 20m