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David Senra

#11 in Business this week

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

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  • Mar 13, 2023 · 43 min

    #294 Napoleon

    What I learned from reading Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell.

  • Feb 13, 2023 · 47 min

    #290 Bill Gates

    What I learned from rereading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson.

  • Feb 7, 2023 · 53 min

    #289 Brunello Cucinelli

    What I learned from reading The Dream of Solomeo: My Life and the Idea of Humanistic Capitalism by Brunello Cucinelli.

  • Jan 31, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    #288 Ralph Lauren

    What I learned from reading Ralph Lauren: The Man Behind the Mystique by Jeffrey Trachtenberg.

  • Jan 23, 2023 · 31 min

    #287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce

    What I learned from rereading Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name: The First Forty Years of Britain s Most Prestigious Company by Peter Pugh.

  • Jan 16, 2023 · 1 hr 10 min

    #286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

    What I learned from reading All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense by Peter Bevelin.

  • Jan 2, 2023 · 1 hr 7 min

    #284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick

    What I learned from rereading Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford.

  • Dec 26, 2022 · 52 min

    #283 Andrew Carnegie

    What I learned from rereading The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie.

  • Dec 12, 2022 · 41 min

    #281 Working with Steve Jobs

    What I learned from rereading Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda.

  • Dec 9, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min

    The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea

    What I learned from reading Copy This!: How I turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 square feet into a company called Kinkos by Paul Orfalea.

  • Dec 6, 2022 · 54 min

    #280 Jimi Hendrix

    What I learned from reading Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix.

  • Nov 22, 2022 · 56 min

    #278 Peter Thiel

    What I learned from rereading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

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