#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)
What I learned from reading Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. ---- [0:01] From a party of one it now counted millions of users on every contin...
18 Huhti 202152min
#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
What I learned from reading The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's g...
11 Huhti 20211h 19min
#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)
What I learned from reading Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace by James Wallace. ---- There would be an industry breakthrough unimagined at the time, and it would be made by a co...
5 Huhti 202148min
#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)
What I learned from reading Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer by Bosley Crowther. ---- The reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to make sure he w...
28 Maalis 20211h 9min
#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)
What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. ---- [12:38] Numerous other entrepreneurs had tried playing at rocket science before, ...
21 Maalis 20211h 5min
#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)
What I learned from reading The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery. ---- He celebrated having divested himself personally of the vast wealt...
15 Maalis 20211h 9min
#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)
What I learned from reading My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins. ---- Any man who by a lifetime of excessive application learns more about anything than others owes a statement to successors. Th...
8 Maalis 20211h 19min
#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)
What I learned from reading The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising by Kenneth Roman. ---- One characteristic of geniuses, said Einstein, is they are passionatel...
1 Maalis 20211h 28min
