Founders
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Description
Learn from founders that came before you. For every episode I read a biography [or autobiography] of an entrepreneur and pull out ideas you can use in your life.
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CleanBen Horowitz (Opsware & Andreessen Horowitz) | I share my experiences in the hope of providing clues and inspiration for others who find themselves in the struggle to build something out of nothing. —Ben Horowitz | 10/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEdwin Land (Polaroid) | Steve Jobs on meeting Edwin Land: "Like visiting a shrine." | 10/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWalt Disney #2 (The Walt Disney Company) | "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse." - Walt Disney | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeff Bezos and Elon Musk | Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk use different strategies to build rocket companies. | 9/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSam Zemurray (Cuyamel Fruit Company/The Banana King) | Sam Z, Sam the Banana Man, El Amigo, the Big Russian, the Gringo –he was not an easy person, nor is his biography without controversy. To some, it's the story of a great man, a pioneer in business, a hero. To others, its the story of a pirate, a conqu | 9/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNolan Bushnell (Atari & Chuck E. Cheese) | Nolan Bushnell is the founder of Atari & Chuck E. Cheese. | 9/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGeorge Lucas (Lucasfilm, Pixar, THX & Industrial Light and Magic) | George Lucas was a benevolent dictator who changed the way movies were filmed, edited, financed, and merchandised. Lucas made billions of dollars investing in what he believed in most: himself. | 8/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEd Catmull (Pixar) | Ed Catmull is the founder of Pixar and the current president of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation. Trained as a computer scientist he pursued the goal of creating the first feature length computer animated film. After 20 years he achieved his goal. H | 8/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLevi Strauss (Levi Strauss & Co) | 0:01 Levi was one of the men who set that firm foundation 2:12 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, take a screenshot, and email it to foundersreviews@gmail.com and I will reply with podcasts that I created exclusively for reviewers 17:35 I do not have a | 8/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJack Ma (Alibaba) | 0:01 Crazy Jack 6:59 The internet is filling the void created by state planning 20:35 Jack has made a career out of being underestimated: “I am a very simple guy. I am not smart. I might have a smart face but I’ve got very stupid brains.” 24:43 | 8/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPeter Thiel (PayPal, Palantir, & Founders Fund) | 1:45 Culture Eats Strategy 3:56 Conspiracy as a metaphor for a company. 6:02 It is a story of poetic justice on a grand scale plotted silently for nearly a decade. 15:25 Something in these pages planted itself deep into Thiel's mind when he first rea | 8/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanElon Musk #2 (SpaceX, Tesla, and PayPal) | 0:47 I don't want to be the person who ever has to compete with Elon 2:45 Musk expects you to keep up 4:41 Short of building an actual money-crushing machine, Musk could not have picked a faster way to destroy his fortune. He became a one-man, ultra-r | 7/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Packard (Hewlett-Packard) | 0:01 How Steve Jobs was inspired by David Packard 1:00 Books are the original hyperlinks 4:30 Profit is the measure of how well we work together 9:00 HP's first product 11:00 Podcasts before podcasts 14:00 Many of the things I learned in this proce | 7/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Wright Brothers | 2:30 Unyielding determination 4:00 Jocko's concept of GOOD 6:30 The ability to focus on an idea for a long time is the antidote to short bursts of dopamine we get from checking social feeds all day. 13:00 The beginning of their side business 16:00 T | 6/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPaul English (Kayak) | 7:00 Kayak sells for $1.8 billion 12:00 I'm paying attention. I want meetings of three people, not ten. 15:00 Someday this boy's going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I'm going to be standing beside him. 22:30 A description of Paul's bi pola | 6/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHenry Ford #2 (The Ford Motor Company) | :01 A theory of business 7:30 If an old idea works then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. (the Lindy effect) 11:00 All people are not equal 15:00 "That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom" 19:30 "I quit my job on August 15th, | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJames Dyson (The Dyson Company) | :01 I am a creator of products, a builder of things 13:30 The best kind of business is one where you can sell a product at a high price with a good margin, and in enormous volumes. 16:00 One sentence summary of this book: Difference, and retention of | 4/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDanny Lewin (Akamai Technologies) | 3:00 When Danny was excited about something, you couldn't help but get excited too 6:00 Steve Jobs had one speed: GO! 10:00 Danny joins Israel's special forces 19:00 "Life is too short to be bored. Only boring people are bored." 22:00 The idea for A | 4/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJim Clark (Netscape, Silicon Graphics, & WebMD) | 0:01 He grew up poor, dropped out of high school, and made himself 3 or 4 billion dollars 8:00 New Growth Theory 11:15 "Growth is just another word for change." 15:00 "The notion of what constituted useful work had broadened." 18:00 "If everyone was | 4/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEvan Spiegel (Snapchat) | 0:01 I'm not going to work for someone else 7:45 Early design decisions of Snapchat 10:00 Steve Jobs and Edwin Land 13:00 How Snapchat convinced people to download the app 16:00 How Facebook created the environment for Snapchat to grow 21:00 The pr | 3/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Carmack & John Romero (ID Software/DOOM) | :01 The business model of podcasts 19:00 Intro to Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 30:00 "We’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets. We’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows—we can’t ea | 3/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDanny Meyer (Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group) | :30 This is not a typical business book 4:00 Why don't you just do what you've been thinking about doing your whole life? 8:00 How Danny learned from other founders on what to do and what to avoid 18:00 The smartest business decision I ever made 20: | 2/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Jobs #2 (Apple, Pixar & NeXT) | 0:30 Learning from great company-builders 5:00 Steve Jobs verbal mastery 10:00 The failed negotiations between NeXT and IBM 18:00 "But how can he be a turnaround expert when he eats his lunch alone in his office, with food served to him on china that | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYvon Chouinard (Patagonia) | 1:00 If you want to understand the entrepreneur study the juvenile delinquent 4:00 Being an 80 percenter 12:30 Why are you in business? 24:00 How you do one thing is how you do all things 27:30 Innovation vs Invention 32:00 Ideas should come from a | 1/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeff Bezos (Amazon & Blue Origin) | :02 The Philosopher CEO 9:00 Jeff Bezos in his 20s and the idea for Amazon 21:00 Jeff Bezos’ regret minimization framework 32:10 Customers not competitors 40:00 Bezos on work life harmony 43:00 There will be no John Sculley at Amazon 46:30 Focus | 1/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) | 0:51 He preferred outspoken colleagues to weak-kneed sycophants. 4:21 Able to ship by water or land Rockefeller gained the critical leverage he needed to secure preferential rates on transportation. 8:11 Often times the most difficult competition come | 12/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeonardo da Vinci | -- | 11/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMark Zuckerberg (Facebook) | 1:25 Microsoft had offered Mark between $1 million and $2 million to go work for them. Amazingly, Mark had turned them down 8:01 Maybe he knew he was about to cross a line. But he had never been very good at staying in the lines. From Mark's history it | 9/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanElon Musk Part 3: How and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars | 4:38 In the most recent 1% of our species short existence we have become the first life on earth to know about the situation 8:41 The total market for satellite manufacturing, the launches that carry them to space, and related equipment and services ha | 8/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanElon Musk Part 2: How Tesla Will Change The World | 7:02 At the time he was already running SpaceX and trying to colonize Mars, so launching a startup car company wasn't something he could really fit into his calendar. 10:43 The overarching mission wasn't to build the biggest car company in the world. | 8/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce | (3:55) Which leaves only two options: create or copy. (6:04) Conventional wisdom: If something is both a good idea and possible, it's already been done. (14:10) I'm fascinated by those rare people in history who manage to dramatically change the world | 8/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPhil Knight (Nike) | -- | 7/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHenry Ford (The Ford Motor Company) | -- | 7/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRobert Noyce (Intel & Fairchild Semiconductor) | -- | 6/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRay Kroc (McDonald's) | -- | 5/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSam Walton (Walmart) | -- | 5/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Jobs (Apple, Pixar, & NeXT) | -- | 4/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoseph P. Kennedy (The Kennedy Family Dynasty) | -- | 4/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThomas Edison | (11:00) Edison starts his first business at 12 years old (20:00) Edison's discipline (38:00) Edison's rivalry with Alexander Graham Bell (1:00:00) Edison's friendship with Henry Ford (1:15:00) Edison's stoic nature (1:21:00) The death of Thomas Edi | 3/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWalt Disney (The Walt Disney Company) | The life and times of Walt Disney based on the book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Betrayal, triumph, family, tragedy, Disneyland, and death. | 10/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanElon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal, & Zip2) | (0:01) The case for reading more biographies (8:00) How to spend $180 million (23:00) Mice in space (45:00) Pain, suffering, and survival (1:10:00) Conclusion | 9/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Well worth my time.
Absolutely loved the Elon Musk episode of your podcast. The book sounds extremely interesting and the podcast summarized the best parts.
I'll look forward to listening to more episodes.
Great work.
New staple podcast
I recently found this podcast after watching the movie the founder and looking for more information on Ray Kroc. Since then I've begun listening to all of the various episodes. I'm a voracious reader, but what I like about this podcast is it allows me to "read" while I'm driving or on the go
This is a great listen
The production value is no radiolab, but the content is excellent. Great idea for a podcast!! I don't miss an episode
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