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David Senra

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…

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#431 How Henry Singleton Worked 2026-08-31 · 49m
#430 How to Write Ads That Sell 2026-08-23 · 64m Read →
#429 Bob Dylan's Autobiography 2026-08-16 · 60m Read →
#428 How Claude Shannon Worked 2026-08-09 · 51m Read →
#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company 2026-08-01 · 38m Read →
#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan 2026-07-26 · 51m Read →
#425 The Merchant Bankers 2026-07-19 · 46m Read →
#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly 2026-07-10 · 54m Read →
#423 Soichiro Honda 2026-06-28 · 48m Read →
#422 Joseph Pulitzer 2026-06-20 · 53m Read →
#421 Jony Ive 2026-06-10 · 53m Read →
#420 Steve Jobs In Exile 2026-06-04 · 54m Read →
#419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works 2026-05-16 · 50m Read →
#418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike 2026-05-07 · 63m Read →
#417 Arnold Schwarzenegger 2026-04-19 · 44m Read →
#416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis 2026-04-01 · 55m Read →
#415 How Elon Thinks 2026-03-24 · 51m Read →
#414 How SpaceX Works 2026-03-08 · 41m Read →
#413 How To Run Down A Dream 2026-03-03 · 31m Read →
#412 How Roger Federer Works 2026-02-19 · 49m Read →
#411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi 2026-02-04 · 61m Read →
#410 Excellent Advice for Living 2026-01-25 · 38m Read →
The Singular Life of Rick Rubin 2026-01-16 · 81m Read →
#409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin 2026-01-08 · 43m Read →
#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs 2025-12-29 · 43m Read →
The Life of Jesus 2025-12-25 · 35m Read →
#407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself 2025-12-14 · 73m Read →
#406 Christian von Koenigsegg 2025-12-03 · 46m Read →
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder 2025-11-25 · 60m Read →
#405 How Rockefeller Worked 2025-11-17 · 58m Read →
My conversation with Todd Graves 2025-11-09 · 121m Read →
#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks 2025-11-04 · 62m Read →
My Conversation with Brad Jacobs 2025-10-28 · 124m Read →
#403 How Jensen Works 2025-10-20 · 55m Read →
My Conversation with Michael Dell 2025-10-13 · 92m Read →
#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything 2025-10-05 · 32m Read →
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify 2025-09-28 · 130m Read →
#401 How Bill Gates Works 2025-09-24 · 68m Read →
#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson 2025-09-12 · 73m Read →
#399 How Elon Works 2025-08-25 · 93m Read →
#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful) 2025-08-14 · 121m Read →
#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage 2025-08-04 · 41m Read →
#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari 2025-07-30 · 57m Read →
#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport 2025-07-22 · 65m Read →
#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica 2025-07-13 · 68m Read →
#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers 2025-07-03 · 55m Read →
#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire 2025-06-23 · 55m Read →
#391 Jimmy Iovine 2025-06-13 · 57m Read →
#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview 2025-06-04 · 41m Read →
#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon 2025-05-26 · 56m Read →
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them! 2025-05-15 · 79m Read →
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters! 2025-05-13 · 72m
A conversation on focus and finding your life's work 2025-05-09 · 82m Read →
#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine 2025-05-01 · 68m Read →
#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony 2025-04-22 · 72m Read →
#385 Michael Dell 2025-04-14 · 108m Read →
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities 2025-04-01 · 67m Read →
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig 2025-03-23 · 50m Read →
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream 2025-03-17 · 68m Read →
#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood 2025-03-07 · 91m Read →
#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz 2025-03-07 · 27m Read →
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words 2025-02-25 · 82m Read →
#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys) 2025-02-18 · 60m Read →
#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess 2025-02-10 · 53m Read →
#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr. 2025-01-27 · 64m Read →
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia 2025-01-13 · 101m Read →
#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green 2025-01-06 · 54m Read →
The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai 2024-12-27 · 76m Read →
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview 2024-12-15 · 36m Read →
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars 2024-12-06 · 94m Read →
#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group 2024-11-29 · 49m Read →
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder 2024-11-18 · 59m Read →
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad 2024-11-12 · 66m Read →
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX 2024-11-01 · 64m Read →
Steve Jobs and Edwin Land 2024-10-20 · 62m Read →
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography 2024-10-15 · 56m Read →
#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell 2024-10-08 · 50m Read →
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo 2024-09-27 · 45m Read →
#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners 2024-09-16 · 56m Read →
#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership 2024-09-10 · 45m Read →
#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett 2024-09-06 · 84m Read →
#362 Li Lu 2024-08-26 · 38m Read →
#361 Estée Lauder 2024-08-18 · 58m Read →
#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal 2024-08-12 · 57m Read →
#359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty 2024-08-07 · 66m Read →
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods 2024-07-28 · 94m Read →
#357 Haruki Murakami 2024-07-21 · 59m Read →
#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel) 2024-07-12 · 58m Read →
#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview 2024-07-04 · 44m Read →
#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man 2024-06-29 · 93m Read →
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty 2024-06-23 · 64m Read →
#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America 2024-06-15 · 90m Read →
#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf 2024-06-04 · 57m Read →
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs 2024-05-27 · 47m Read →
#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple 2024-05-20 · 52m Read →
Michael Jordan In His Own Words 2024-05-12 · 96m Read →
#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger 2024-05-07 · 76m Read →
#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland 2024-04-29 · 78m Read →
#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself 2024-04-22 · 107m Read →
#345 George Lucas 2024-04-12 · 119m Read →
Steven Spielberg 2024-04-04 · 99m Read →
#344 Quentin Tarantino 2024-03-30 · 66m Read →
#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy 2024-03-24 · 32m Read →
#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant) 2024-03-18 · 53m Read →
#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War) 2024-03-11 · 66m Read →
#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant 2024-03-01 · 84m Read →
Jay Z's Autobiography 2024-02-25 · 128m Read →
#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer 2024-02-20 · 64m Read →
#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire 2024-02-13 · 60m Read →
#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy 2024-02-05 · 61m Read →
#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull 2024-02-01 · 86m Read →
#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs 2024-01-23 · 73m Read →
#334 Oprah 2024-01-16 · 70m Read →
#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz 2024-01-08 · 69m Read →
#332 Jesus 2023-12-24 · 35m Read →
#331 Christian Dior 2023-12-18 · 61m Read →
#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book) 2023-12-11 · 97m Read →
#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack) 2023-12-05 · 114m Read →
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger 2023-11-29 · 31m Read →
#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager) 2023-11-22 · 43m Read →
#327 Ted Turner 2023-11-14 · 87m Read →
#326 Anna Wintour 2023-11-06 · 72m Read →
#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer) 2023-10-29 · 72m Read →
#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son) 2023-10-21 · 106m Read →
Mike Bloomberg 2023-10-10 · 81m Read →
#323 Jimmy Buffett 2023-10-03 · 66m Read →
#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) 2023-09-26 · 43m Read →
#321 Working with Jeff Bezos 2023-09-21 · 57m Read →
#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2 2023-09-14 · 55m Read →
Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale) 2023-09-11 · 90m Read →
#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1 2023-09-05 · 48m Read →
The best interview I've ever done about Founders 2023-09-03 · 81m Read →
#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed) 2023-08-27 · 48m Read →
#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar) 2023-08-21 · 65m Read →
#316 Bugatti 2023-08-14 · 58m Read →
#315 Balenciaga 2023-08-07 · 36m Read →
#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work) 2023-07-31 · 58m Read →
#313 Christopher Nolan 2023-07-25 · 49m Read →
#312 Mark Twain 2023-07-19 · 55m Read →
#311 James Cameron 2023-07-12 · 72m Read →
#310 Walt Disney and Picasso 2023-07-04 · 52m Read →
Michael Jordan (The Life) 2023-06-30 · 99m Read →
#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful) 2023-06-26 · 40m Read →
#308 The Founder of Glock 2023-06-19 · 40m Read →
#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada 2023-06-12 · 63m Read →
#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) 2023-06-05 · 48m Read →
#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession 2023-05-29 · 55m Read →
#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus) 2023-05-22 · 60m Read →
#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder) 2023-05-14 · 33m Read →
#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon) 2023-05-08 · 50m Read →
#301 Tiger Woods 2023-05-01 · 64m Read →
#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds) 2023-04-24 · 81m Read →
#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful) 2023-04-17 · 121m Read →
#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell 2023-04-10 · 90m Read →
#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) 2023-04-03 · 60m Read →
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast 2023-03-29 · 190m Read →
#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) 2023-03-27 · 68m Read →
#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger 2023-03-21 · 78m Read →
#294 Napoleon 2023-03-13 · 43m Read →
#293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's) 2023-03-06 · 52m Read →
#292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire) 2023-02-27 · 47m Read →
#291 David Packard (Founder of HP) 2023-02-20 · 47m Read →
#290 Bill Gates 2023-02-13 · 47m Read →
#289 Brunello Cucinelli 2023-02-07 · 53m Read →
#288 Ralph Lauren 2023-01-31 · 61m Read →
#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce 2023-01-23 · 32m Read →
#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger 2023-01-16 · 71m Read →
#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune) 2023-01-10 · 60m Read →
#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick 2023-01-02 · 67m Read →
#283 Andrew Carnegie 2022-12-26 · 52m Read →
#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters 2022-12-19 · 70m Read →
#281 Working with Steve Jobs 2022-12-12 · 41m Read →
The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea 2022-12-09 · 75m Read →
#280 Jimi Hendrix 2022-12-06 · 55m Read →
#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett 2022-11-29 · 56m Read →
#278 Peter Thiel 2022-11-22 · 57m Read →
#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3 2022-11-17 · 48m Read →
#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2 2022-11-09 · 42m Read →
#275 Paul Graham 2022-11-03 · 80m Read →
#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape) 2022-10-27 · 53m Read →
#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality) 2022-10-26 · 31m Read →
#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life) 2022-10-19 · 56m Read →
#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century) 2022-10-12 · 53m Read →
#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action) 2022-10-06 · 65m Read →
#269 Sam Zell 2022-09-29 · 68m Read →
#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy) 2022-09-21 · 61m Read →
#267 Thomas Edison 2022-09-14 · 70m Read →
#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography 2022-09-08 · 74m Read →
#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader 2022-08-30 · 86m Read →
#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid 2022-08-24 · 54m Read →
#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It 2022-08-18 · 72m Read →
#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator) 2022-08-11 · 59m Read →
#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two 2022-08-04 · 39m Read →
#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization 2022-08-03 · 81m Read →
#259 Bob Dylan 2022-07-27 · 78m Read →
#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street) 2022-07-22 · 99m Read →
#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration) 2022-07-15 · 78m Read →
#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion) 2022-07-09 · 78m Read →
#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King) 2022-07-02 · 90m Read →
#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers 2022-06-27 · 101m Read →
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