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

#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

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#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
1 h 22m

#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work

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#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work
1 h 2m

#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

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#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
1 h 27m

#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
59m

#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid

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#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
1 h 9m

#39 Walt Disney: An American Original

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#39 Walt Disney: An American Original
1 h 35m

#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

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#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
1 h 30m

#37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

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#37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
1 h 21m

#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

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#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
44m

#35 George Lucas: A Life

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#35 George Lucas: A Life
1 h 21m

#34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar

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#34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar
1 h 27m

#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
1 h 19m

#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

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#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
1 h 48m

#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

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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
2 h 38m

#30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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

#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

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#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
39m

#28 The Wright Brothers

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#28 The Wright Brothers
41m

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

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#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
1 h 24m

#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford

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#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
52m

#25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson

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#25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson
1 h 25m

#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

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#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
1 h 15m

#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
1 h 1m

#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

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#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
1 h 3m

#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

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#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
1 h 28m

#20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)

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#20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)
43m

#19 Becoming Steve Jobs

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#19 Becoming Steve Jobs
1 h 13m

#18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

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#18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
56m

#17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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#17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
1 h 3m

#16 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

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

#15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography

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#15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography
46m