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Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and fi

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Your family asks you to take over a failing factory in a remote part of France. This “family busines

You take over the family pastry shop and transform it into one of the most valuable privately held b

You grow up in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn. You drop out of college. Your dad is your best frie

I've read this interview probably 10 times. It's that good. Steve Jobs was 29 when the interview was

When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned h

(I fixed the audio and uploaded a new episode!)  "To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get

"To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet

My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had

Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start tra

Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth

#385 Michael Dell

2025/4/14

This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his c

Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who i

Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biogra

Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's max

At the core of Michael Ovitz's success is his relentless work ethic and commitment to mastering his

What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz. 1: Mediocrity is alw

For over 30 years the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meetings were recorded. Munger and Buffett answered

Jerry Jones rolled the dice until his knuckles bled. He started working at 7 years old. Jerry could

Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great

Marcus Wallenberg Jr's impact on Swedish industry was so substantial that during the 1970s, Wallenbe