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

#280 Jimi Hendrix

3 years
#280 Jimi Hendrix
54m

#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett

3 years
#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
56m

#278 Peter Thiel

3 years
#278 Peter Thiel
56m

#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3

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#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3
47m

#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2

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#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2
42m

#275 Paul Graham

3 years
#275 Paul Graham
1 h 19m

#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)

4 years
#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
53m

#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)

4 years
#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
31m

#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)

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#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)
55m

#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)

4 years
#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
53m

#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)

4 years
#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)
1 h 5m

#269 Sam Zell

4 years
#269 Sam Zell
1 h 8m

#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)

4 years
#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
1 h 1m

#267 Thomas Edison

4 years
#267 Thomas Edison
1 h 10m

#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography

4 years
#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography
1 h 13m

#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

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#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
1 h 26m

#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid

4 years
#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid
54m

#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It

4 years
#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
1 h 11m

#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)

4 years
#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)
59m

#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two

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#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two
39m

#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

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#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
1 h 21m

#259 Bob Dylan

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#259 Bob Dylan
1 h 18m

#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)

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#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)
1 h 39m

#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)

4 years
#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
1 h 18m

#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)

4 years
#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
1 h 18m

#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)

4 years
#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
1 h 29m

#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

4 years
#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
1 h 40m

#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)

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#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)
56m

#252 Socrates

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#252 Socrates
47m

#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership

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#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership
57m