#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!
(I fixed the audio and uploaded a new episode!) "To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any o...
15 Touko 20251h 19min
A conversation on focus and finding your life's work
My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had just finished listening to episode #383 "Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream" and h...
9 Touko 20251h 22min
#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine
Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start trading full time until he was 40. The company he founded — Renaissance Technologies — has made over $...
1 Touko 20251h 8min
#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing family in Japan, Akio eschewed the traditional path ...
22 Huhti 20251h 11min
#385 Michael Dell
This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his company with $1000 when he was 19 years old. The revenues for the first 16 years of Dell look like th...
14 Huhti 20251h 48min
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who is the smartest person you know" and "Who do you think has the best business?". "Ken Griffin" is a ve...
1 Huhti 20251h 6min
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biographies of history's greatest founders and this book is one of my all time favorites. Daniel Ludwig st...
23 Maalis 202550min
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's maxim: Find a simple idea and take it seriously. Todd wanted to create a quick service restaurant that ...
17 Maalis 20251h 8min
