David Senra

"In this book, we have Isaacson's biography of Elon, which you and I both have read and reread"

"I'm reading I've never read Atlas Shrugged before. And the funny thing is I'm reading it. I actually might do an episode on it."

"I'm rereading the book Snowball. It's like the 700-page biography of Warren Buffett right now."

"It's one of my favorite books. It's by Rich Cohen. I've read it like three times."

"Did you ever read Eric Berger's book Liftoff? Oh, you got to read it. It's the first six years history of SpaceX and it's just reading one failure after another. It's a great read."

"So there's a story in the Ashlee Vance book where they're like, 'I don't get Elon.'"

"In early SpaceX, I told the team everything we did was a function of our burn rate. We were burning through $100,000 per day."

"I think AI is probably the best thing that's ever happened to Snapchat, which is great."

"They told me they're the second most paid subscribers in the world, I think, behind Netflix."

"I spent a lot of time with the Spotify team, Daniel, Gustaf, Alex, the top three people there and they just have this like soul in the game and they're really trying to build an app. Their whole thing is just like when you're done using Spotify, do you feel good?"

"All of the magic or the secret sauce if you will are in things that you cannot see. These things are the things that make DoorDash special and make DoorDash an end-to-end experience that's very difficult to replicate."

"One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. It says the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places."

"it's like a Lollapalooza from Charlie Munger right? It is like this is not a 10% on a 10% on a 10%."

"He's doing it through Shopify. I'm obviously doing it through reading all these biographies."

"Did you ever read Jimmy Soni's biography of Claude Shannon? I think it's called A Mind at Play."

"You sell Beats to Apple. Well, because company like Apple pays you a lot of money."

"Mark Leonard of Constellation Software did this podcast. He talked about one of his most fulfilling jobs he ever had was not starting and compounding 50 million to 80 billion or whatever he's done with pure software."

"He wrote this autobiography. It was very fascinating because he writes it, 90% of the pages are building Trader Joe's. He clearly loves it. But then the last paragraph is like he regrets selling."

"He makes some of the most technologically advanced films that have ever been created. And yet he doesn't have a cell phone."

"When you read Poor Charlie's Almanack, his thing is that you should master there's only a handful of big ideas in all these different disciplines."