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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...
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#422 Joseph Pulitzer
Jun 20, 2026
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#421 Jony Ive
Jun 10, 2026
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#420 Steve Jobs In Exile
Jun 4, 2026
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#419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works
May 16, 2026
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#418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
May 7, 2026
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#417 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Apr 19, 2026
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#416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
Apr 1, 2026
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#415 How Elon Thinks
Mar 24, 2026
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#414 How SpaceX Works
Mar 8, 2026
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#413 How To Run Down A Dream
Mar 3, 2026
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#412 How Roger Federer Works
Feb 19, 2026
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#411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
Feb 4, 2026
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#410 Excellent Advice for Living
Jan 25, 2026
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The Singular Life of Rick Rubin
Jan 16, 2026
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#409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
Jan 8, 2026
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#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
Dec 29, 2025
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The Life of Jesus
Dec 25, 2025
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#407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself
Dec 14, 2025
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#406 Christian von Koenigsegg
Dec 3, 2025
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Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
Nov 25, 2025
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#405 How Rockefeller Worked
Nov 17, 2025
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My conversation with Todd Graves
Nov 9, 2025
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#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks
Nov 4, 2025
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My Conversation with Brad Jacobs
Oct 28, 2025
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#403 How Jensen Works
Oct 20, 2025
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My Conversation with Michael Dell
Oct 13, 2025
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#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything
Oct 5, 2025
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My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
Sep 28, 2025
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#401 How Bill Gates Works
Sep 24, 2025
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#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
Sep 12, 2025
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#399 How Elon Works
Aug 25, 2025
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#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
Aug 14, 2025
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#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
Aug 4, 2025
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#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
Jul 30, 2025
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#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
Jul 22, 2025
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#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica
Jul 13, 2025
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#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers
Jul 3, 2025
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#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
Jun 23, 2025
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#391 Jimmy Iovine
Jun 13, 2025
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#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview
Jun 4, 2025
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#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon
May 26, 2025
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#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!
May 15, 2025
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#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters!
May 13, 2025
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A conversation on focus and finding your life's work
May 9, 2025
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#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine
May 1, 2025
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#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
Apr 22, 2025
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#385 Michael Dell
Apr 14, 2025
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#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
Apr 1, 2025
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The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
Mar 23, 2025
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#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Mar 17, 2025
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#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
Mar 7, 2025
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#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz
Mar 7, 2025
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#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
Feb 25, 2025
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#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
Feb 18, 2025
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#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
Feb 10, 2025
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#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
Jan 27, 2025
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#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
Jan 13, 2025
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#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
Jan 6, 2025
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The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai
Dec 27, 2024
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#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
Dec 15, 2024
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#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
Dec 6, 2024
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#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group
Nov 29, 2024
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#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
Nov 18, 2024
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#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
Nov 12, 2024
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#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
Nov 1, 2024
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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land
Oct 20, 2024
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#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography
Oct 15, 2024
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#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
Oct 8, 2024
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#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
Sep 27, 2024
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#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
Sep 16, 2024
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#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership
Sep 10, 2024
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#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
Sep 6, 2024
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#362 Li Lu
Aug 26, 2024
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#361 Estée Lauder
Aug 18, 2024
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#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
Aug 12, 2024
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#359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty
Aug 7, 2024
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#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
Jul 28, 2024
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#357 Haruki Murakami
Jul 21, 2024
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#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
Jul 12, 2024
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#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
Jul 4, 2024
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#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
Jun 29, 2024
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#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
Jun 23, 2024
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#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
Jun 15, 2024
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#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
Jun 4, 2024
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#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
May 27, 2024
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#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
May 20, 2024
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Michael Jordan In His Own Words
May 12, 2024
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#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
May 7, 2024
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#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
Apr 29, 2024
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#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself
Apr 22, 2024
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#345 George Lucas
Apr 12, 2024
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Steven Spielberg
Apr 4, 2024
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#344 Quentin Tarantino
Mar 30, 2024
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#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
Mar 24, 2024
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#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
Mar 18, 2024
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#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)
Mar 11, 2024
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#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
Mar 1, 2024
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Jay Z's Autobiography
Feb 25, 2024
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#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer
Feb 20, 2024
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#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire
Feb 13, 2024
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#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
Feb 5, 2024
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#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull
Feb 1, 2024
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#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
Jan 23, 2024
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#334 Oprah
Jan 16, 2024
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#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
Jan 8, 2024
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#332 Jesus
Dec 24, 2023
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#331 Christian Dior
Dec 18, 2023
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#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Dec 11, 2023
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#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
Dec 5, 2023
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Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger
Nov 29, 2023
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#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)
Nov 22, 2023
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#327 Ted Turner
Nov 14, 2023
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#326 Anna Wintour
Nov 6, 2023
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#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)
Oct 29, 2023
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#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)
Oct 21, 2023
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Mike Bloomberg
Oct 10, 2023
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#323 Jimmy Buffett
Oct 3, 2023
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#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
Sep 26, 2023
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#321 Working with Jeff Bezos
Sep 21, 2023
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#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
Sep 14, 2023
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Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)
Sep 11, 2023
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#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
Sep 5, 2023
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The best interview I've ever done about Founders
Sep 3, 2023
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#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)
Aug 27, 2023
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#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
Aug 21, 2023
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#316 Bugatti
Aug 14, 2023
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#315 Balenciaga
Aug 7, 2023
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#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
Jul 31, 2023
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#313 Christopher Nolan
Jul 25, 2023
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#312 Mark Twain
Jul 19, 2023
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#311 James Cameron
Jul 12, 2023
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#310 Walt Disney and Picasso
Jul 4, 2023
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Michael Jordan (The Life)
Jun 30, 2023
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#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
Jun 26, 2023
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#308 The Founder of Glock
Jun 19, 2023
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#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
Jun 12, 2023
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#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
Jun 5, 2023
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#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession
May 29, 2023
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#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)
May 22, 2023
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#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
May 14, 2023
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#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
May 8, 2023
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#301 Tiger Woods
May 1, 2023
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#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds)
Apr 24, 2023
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#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
Apr 17, 2023
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#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell
Apr 10, 2023
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#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
Apr 3, 2023
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A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
Mar 29, 2023
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#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
Mar 27, 2023
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#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger
Mar 21, 2023
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#294 Napoleon
Mar 13, 2023
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#293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's)
Mar 6, 2023
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#292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)
Feb 27, 2023
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#291 David Packard (Founder of HP)
Feb 20, 2023
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#290 Bill Gates
Feb 13, 2023
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#289 Brunello Cucinelli
Feb 7, 2023
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#288 Ralph Lauren
Jan 31, 2023
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#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce
Jan 23, 2023
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#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
Jan 16, 2023
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#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune)
Jan 10, 2023
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#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick
Jan 2, 2023
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#283 Andrew Carnegie
Dec 26, 2022
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#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters
Dec 19, 2022
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#281 Working with Steve Jobs
Dec 12, 2022
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The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea
Dec 9, 2022
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#280 Jimi Hendrix
Dec 6, 2022
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#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
Nov 29, 2022
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#278 Peter Thiel
Nov 22, 2022
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#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3
Nov 17, 2022
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#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2
Nov 9, 2022
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#275 Paul Graham
Nov 3, 2022
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#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
Oct 27, 2022
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#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
Oct 26, 2022
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#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)
Oct 19, 2022
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#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
Oct 12, 2022
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#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)
Oct 6, 2022
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#269 Sam Zell
Sep 29, 2022
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#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
Sep 21, 2022
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#267 Thomas Edison
Sep 14, 2022
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#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography
Sep 8, 2022
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#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Aug 30, 2022
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#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid
Aug 24, 2022
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#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
Aug 18, 2022
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#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)
Aug 11, 2022
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#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two
Aug 4, 2022
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#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Aug 3, 2022
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#259 Bob Dylan
Jul 27, 2022
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#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)
Jul 22, 2022
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#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
Jul 15, 2022
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#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
Jul 9, 2022
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#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
Jul 2, 2022
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#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
Jun 27, 2022
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#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)
Jun 22, 2022
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#252 Socrates
Jun 17, 2022
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#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership
Jun 13, 2022
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#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
Jun 8, 2022
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Steve Jobs's Heroes
Jun 2, 2022
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#249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Jun 1, 2022
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#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan)
May 28, 2022
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#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)
May 19, 2022
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#246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters
May 13, 2022
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#245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio)
May 8, 2022
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#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)
May 3, 2022
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#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)
Apr 25, 2022
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#242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
Apr 21, 2022
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#241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Apr 14, 2022
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#240 Mozart: A Life
Apr 7, 2022
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Steve Jobs and His Heroes
Apr 1, 2022
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#239 The Wright Brothers
Mar 29, 2022
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#238 Jay Z: Decoded
Mar 23, 2022
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#237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon)
Mar 16, 2022
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#236 Nims Purja (Mountain Climber)
Mar 11, 2022
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#235 Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story)
Mar 7, 2022
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#234 Sam Walton: Made In America
Feb 28, 2022
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#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)
Feb 23, 2022
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#232 Alexander the Great
Feb 16, 2022
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#231 William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts)
Feb 12, 2022
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#230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star)
Feb 7, 2022
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#229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)
Jan 30, 2022
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#228 Michael Bloomberg
Jan 27, 2022
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I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10!
Jan 24, 2022
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#227 The Essays of Warren Buffett
Jan 20, 2022
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#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
Jan 12, 2022
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#225 Winston Churchill
Jan 9, 2022
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#224 Charles de Gaulle
Jan 5, 2022
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#223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
Dec 29, 2021
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#222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint)
Dec 20, 2021
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#221 Charlie Munger
Dec 13, 2021
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#220 Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
Dec 9, 2021
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#219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography
Nov 30, 2021
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#218 Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football)
Nov 25, 2021
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#217 Estée Lauder
Nov 18, 2021
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#216 Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans)
Nov 14, 2021
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#215: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius)
Nov 9, 2021
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#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Nov 3, 2021
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#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within
Oct 27, 2021
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#212 Michael Jordan: The Life
Oct 23, 2021
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#211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life
Oct 16, 2021
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#210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Oct 10, 2021
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#209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography
Oct 6, 2021
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#208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett
Sep 29, 2021
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#207 Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising)
Sep 26, 2021
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#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)
Sep 23, 2021
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#205 James Dyson (Invention: A Life)
Sep 18, 2021
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#204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain)
Sep 14, 2021
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#203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)
Sep 8, 2021
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#202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett
Sep 2, 2021
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#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)
Aug 30, 2021
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#200 James Dyson (Against the Odds)
Aug 27, 2021
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#199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Aug 20, 2021
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#198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)
Aug 18, 2021
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#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
Aug 11, 2021
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#196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)
Aug 7, 2021
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#195 Sid Meier (Computer game designer)
Jul 31, 2021
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#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)
Jul 27, 2021
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#193 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography)
Jul 22, 2021
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#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)
Jul 19, 2021
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#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
Jul 13, 2021
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#190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
Jul 10, 2021
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#189 David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most)
Jul 5, 2021
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#188 Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes)
Jun 28, 2021
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#187 Albert Einstein
Jun 22, 2021
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#186 Phil Knight (Nike)
Jun 16, 2021
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#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)
Jun 10, 2021
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#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)
Jun 6, 2021
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#183 Johnny Carson
Jun 4, 2021
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#182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist)
May 29, 2021
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#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)
May 23, 2021
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#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)
May 17, 2021
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Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)
May 13, 2021
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#179 Jeff Bezos
May 10, 2021
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#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
May 3, 2021
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#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)
Apr 26, 2021
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#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)
Apr 18, 2021
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#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Apr 11, 2021
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#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)
Apr 5, 2021
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#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)
Mar 28, 2021
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#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)
Mar 21, 2021
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#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)
Mar 15, 2021
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#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)
Mar 8, 2021
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#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)
Mar 1, 2021
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#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)
Feb 21, 2021
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#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation)
Feb 19, 2021
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#166 Robert Noyce (Intel)
Feb 8, 2021
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#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)
Feb 1, 2021
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#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)
Jan 25, 2021
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#163 Alfred Nobel
Jan 18, 2021
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#162 Chuck Yeager
Jan 11, 2021
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#161 Dr. Seuss
Jan 4, 2021
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#160 Peter Cundill
Dec 28, 2020
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#159 Andy Grove (Intel)
Dec 21, 2020
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#158 Walt Disney (Disneyland)
Dec 14, 2020
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#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Dec 7, 2020
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#156 Theodore Roosevelt
Nov 30, 2020
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#155 Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches)
Nov 23, 2020
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#154 Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)
Nov 19, 2020
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#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)
Nov 12, 2020
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#152 Katherine Graham (Washington Post)
Nov 5, 2020
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#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)
Oct 29, 2020
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#150 Sam Walton (America's Richest Man)
Oct 24, 2020
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#149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires)
Oct 18, 2020
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#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Oct 11, 2020
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#147 Sam Colt
Oct 5, 2020
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#146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate)
Sep 27, 2020
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#145 William Randolph Hearst
Sep 20, 2020
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#144 Ernest Shackleton
Sep 13, 2020
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#143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of)
Sep 6, 2020
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#142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan
Aug 30, 2020
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#141 Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story)
Aug 23, 2020
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#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)
Aug 16, 2020
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#139 J.P. Morgan
Aug 9, 2020
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#138 Alexander Graham Bell
Aug 2, 2020
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#137 P.T. Barnum
Jul 26, 2020
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#136 Estée Lauder
Jul 18, 2020
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#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)
Jul 12, 2020
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#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
Jul 1, 2020
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#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
Jun 25, 2020
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#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero)
Jun 20, 2020
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#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)
Jun 14, 2020
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#130 Walter Chrysler
Jun 9, 2020
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#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)
Jun 4, 2020
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#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac)
May 31, 2020
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#127 Larry Ellison (Oracle)
May 25, 2020
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#126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)
May 20, 2020
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#125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)
May 15, 2020
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#124 Larry Ellison and Oracle
May 9, 2020
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#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)
May 1, 2020
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#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
Apr 26, 2020
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#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
Apr 19, 2020
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#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)
Apr 11, 2020
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#119 The Dodge Brothers
Apr 5, 2020
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#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford
Mar 31, 2020
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#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read)
Mar 26, 2020
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#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty)
Mar 21, 2020
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#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life
Mar 16, 2020
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#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
Mar 9, 2020
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#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)
Mar 5, 2020
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#112 Frank Lloyd Wright
Feb 24, 2020
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#111 David Geffen
Feb 16, 2020
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#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
Feb 10, 2020
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#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)
Feb 3, 2020
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#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)
Jan 26, 2020
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#107 Sol Price (Costco)
Jan 20, 2020
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#106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)
Jan 12, 2020
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#105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Jan 5, 2020
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#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
Dec 30, 2019
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#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)
Dec 22, 2019
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#102 Akio Morita (Sony)
Dec 15, 2019
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#101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)
Dec 8, 2019
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#100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball)
Dec 1, 2019
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#99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)
Nov 24, 2019
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#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)
Nov 18, 2019
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#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)
Nov 10, 2019
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#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)
Nov 4, 2019
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#95 Claude Shannon
Oct 27, 2019
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#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)
Oct 20, 2019
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#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)
Oct 13, 2019
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#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
Oct 7, 2019
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#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)
Sep 29, 2019
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#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)
Sep 22, 2019
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#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
Sep 15, 2019
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#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!
Sep 8, 2019
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#87 Thomas Watson (IBM)
Sep 1, 2019
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#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)
Aug 25, 2019
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#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)
Aug 18, 2019
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#84 Aristotle Onassis
Aug 11, 2019
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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Aug 4, 2019
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#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
Jul 28, 2019
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#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)
Jul 22, 2019
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#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)
Jul 14, 2019
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#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)
Jul 7, 2019
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#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)
Jun 30, 2019
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#77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years)
Jun 23, 2019
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#76 Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple
Jun 16, 2019
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#75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner
Jun 9, 2019
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#74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Jun 2, 2019
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#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America
May 26, 2019
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#72 Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel
May 19, 2019
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#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
May 12, 2019
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#70 Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital
May 6, 2019
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#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
Apr 28, 2019
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#68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire
Apr 21, 2019
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#67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty
Apr 14, 2019
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#66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
Apr 7, 2019
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#65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
Mar 31, 2019
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#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets
Mar 24, 2019
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#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Mar 10, 2019
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#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Mar 4, 2019
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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Feb 25, 2019
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#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
Feb 18, 2019
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#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
Feb 11, 2019
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#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
Feb 4, 2019
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#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
Jan 28, 2019
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#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher
Jan 22, 2019
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#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
Jan 14, 2019
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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jan 8, 2019
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#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Jan 1, 2019
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#52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
Dec 25, 2018
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#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
Dec 17, 2018
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#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive
Dec 11, 2018
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#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
Dec 3, 2018
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#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
Nov 26, 2018
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#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Nov 19, 2018
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#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story
Nov 13, 2018
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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
Nov 5, 2018
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#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
Oct 30, 2018
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#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work
Oct 22, 2018
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#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Oct 16, 2018
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#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Oct 8, 2018
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#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
Oct 2, 2018
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#39 Walt Disney: An American Original
Sep 24, 2018
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#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Sep 17, 2018
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#37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Sep 9, 2018
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#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
Sep 3, 2018
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#35 George Lucas: A Life
Aug 26, 2018
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#34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar
Aug 20, 2018
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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
Aug 12, 2018
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#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Aug 9, 2018
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#31 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Aug 2, 2018
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#30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Jul 9, 2018
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#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
Jul 2, 2018
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#28 The Wright Brothers
Jun 25, 2018
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#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
Jun 15, 2018
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#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
May 2, 2018
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#25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson
Apr 22, 2018
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#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
Apr 15, 2018
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#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Apr 7, 2018
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#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
Mar 20, 2018
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#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Mar 1, 2018
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#20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)
Feb 6, 2018
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#19 Becoming Steve Jobs
Jan 19, 2018
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#18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Jan 8, 2018
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#17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Jan 1, 2018
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#16 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Dec 8, 2017
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#15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography
Nov 17, 2017
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#14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Sep 17, 2017
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#13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
Aug 27, 2017
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#12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World
Aug 20, 2017
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#11 The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
Aug 13, 2017
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#10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Jul 27, 2017
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#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
Jul 10, 2017
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#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
Jun 20, 2017
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#7 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
May 27, 2017
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#6 Sam Walton
May 14, 2017
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#5 Steve Jobs
Apr 30, 2017
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#4 The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Apr 19, 2017
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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World
Mar 24, 2017
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#2 Walt Disney
Oct 10, 2016
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#1 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Sep 19, 2016
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