Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and tell you what I learned. 345 biographies down. 1000 to go.founderspodcast.comJoined January 2016
“Walt Disney had the drive and ambition of 10,000 men” — @FoundersPodcast
Got goosebumps when I listened to this earlier in the morning
Also the stories of him being a dad & reflecting on his happiest memories with his young daughters.. choked up a couple times
Such an…
Some books I wish everyone read and internalized:
Lessons of history (will and Ariel Durant)
Upanishads (Easewaran translation)
Path of least resistance (Fritz)
Emerson’s collected essays
Labyrinths (Borges)
Bird by Bird (Lamott)
Tao te Ching
Titan (Chernow)
Sidhartha (Hesse)…
"An average idea in the hands of an able man is worth much more than an outstanding idea in the possession of a person with only average ability."
— Georges Doriot (father of venture capital)
I've learned so much from @FoundersPodcast over the years -- I have a Pavlovian reaction to his voice equivalent to 3 espressos ☕️☕️☕️, fueling me to try harder at life -- so I decided to make a tribute song.
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