#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)
What I learned from reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. ---- Microsoft had become the first software company to sell more than a b...
16 Aug 202055min
#139 J.P. Morgan
What I learned from reading The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow. [0:01] This book is about the rise, fall, and resurrection of an American b...
9 Aug 20201h 8min
#138 Alexander Graham Bell
What I learned from reading Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell by Charlotte Gray. ---- [0:01] I have my periods of restlessness when my brain is crowded...
2 Aug 20201h
#137 P.T. Barnum
What I learned from reading Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson. ---- [1:23] He is known today primarily for his connection to the circus, but that came only in the last quarter of his long lif...
26 Jul 20201h 2min
#136 Estée Lauder
What I learned from reading A Success Story by Estee Lauder. ---- You can probably reach out with comparative ease and touch a life of serenity and peace. You can wait for things to happen and not get...
18 Jul 202044min
#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)
What I learned from reading Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris. ---- [0:20] Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media. Pulitzer’s lasti...
12 Jul 20201h 7min
#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
What I learned from reading A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War by Ronald Fierstein. ---- [0:21] He died in 1991 with 535 patents to his credit, third in U.S. history....
1 Jul 20201h 18min
#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
What I learned from reading Land’s Polaroid: A Company and The Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg. ---- [1:14] He was revered to an extraordinary extent by most of the people who worked for him....
25 Jun 202054min
