326 Episodes

  1. #270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)

    Published: 10/6/2022

  2. #269 Sam Zell

    Published: 9/29/2022

  3. #268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)

    Published: 9/21/2022

  4. #267 Thomas Edison

    Published: 9/14/2022

  5. #266 Henry Ford's Autobiography

    Published: 9/8/2022

  6. #265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

    Published: 8/30/2022

  7. #264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid

    Published: 8/24/2022

  8. #263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It

    Published: 8/18/2022

  9. #262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)

    Published: 8/11/2022

  10. #261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two

    Published: 8/4/2022

  11. #260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

    Published: 8/3/2022

  12. #259 Bob Dylan

    Published: 7/27/2022

  13. #258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)

    Published: 7/22/2022

  14. #257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)

    Published: 7/15/2022

  15. #256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)

    Published: 7/9/2022

  16. #255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)

    Published: 7/2/2022

  17. #254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

    Published: 6/27/2022

  18. #253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)

    Published: 6/22/2022

  19. #252 Socrates

    Published: 6/17/2022

  20. #251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership

    Published: 6/13/2022

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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