David Senra
Everything David personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"The founder of 11 Labs, who I use to make transcripts for this podcast"
▶ 44:46"We use ElevenLabs for our transcripts. Shout out ElevenLabs."
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"It's a fantastic product, and it turns every document into essentially a podcast that I can listen to when my eyes are busy. I put the one about you into ElevenReader, so I'm listening to you about you in your own product."
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"I think Eric Jorgenson was on this podcast earlier about his book of Elon."
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"There's this great essay by Paul Graham that comes to mind when I hear you speak about this. He was like, well, what's more predictive of success, intelligence or determination?"
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"My partners Ramp, AppLovin, and Deel are donating to Ben Wilson's GoFundMe. If you are in the position to do so, please consider donating as well."
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"Have you ever read this book called The Mind of Napoleon?... It's 300 pages of just Napoleon in his own words organized by topic. And in that he talks over and over again that hesitation is fatal."
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"There's this very old book. It's called Scientific Advertising. It was written in the early 1900s... essentially it's not about advertising, it's about human nature, which doesn't change."
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"So I obviously knew who you were because of the Entourage character."
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"This guy, Brad Jacobs, who wrote this book called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. He started eight separate billion dollar companies. Then that book was so successful. I did a book review of it on my other podcast."
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"He wrote another book a year or two later called How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars. And in that book, he talks about the fact that... he raised $750 million from two people in my audience."
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"There's a picture of me, him, and one of his co-founders the week before Cognition launched."
"Me and you were at a dinner with Scott Wu, founder of Cognition. I just recorded an episode with him. I've spent a bunch of time with Scott over the last few years, even before they launched Devin."
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"There's a great book that you gave me about him called Threshold Resistance. Can you talk about the idea?"
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"I met this guy named Luca Ferrari who does this company called Bending Spoons and I remember having lunch with him back in like February and literally the lunch was so jarring because he was describing how he built his company and ideas I'd never even heard of anywhere else."
"We just had Luca Ferrari on and he started this crazy company called Bending Spoons. He's doing it from Milan — not exactly like a startup hub. He prefers young graduates or even people that didn't graduate to overexperienced. He's like, 'I don't want your bad experience.'"
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"The founder of the Four Seasons, this guy named Izzy Sharp, he has this great line where — he's like, 'Excellence is the capacity to take pain.'"
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"I was with my friend Patrick who does the Invest Like the Best podcast. He's one of my closest friends."
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"I found one of my all-time favorite quotes when I was reading the book 'Zero to One.' The quote says: 'The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places.'"
"I found one of my all-time favorite quotes when I was reading the book Zero to One. The quote says, 'The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.'"
"I found one of my all-time favorite quotes when I was reading the book Zero to One. The quote says: 'The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places. And they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.'"
"I found one of my all-time favorite quotes when I was reading the book Zero to One. The quote says, 'The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places. And they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.'"
"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"
"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."
"The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places. And they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas."
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"I don't use Snapchat, Specs, anything, whatever the case. It's just that he is differentiated. There's just something about him that I like."
"I've heard that other platforms, other messaging platforms actually see you guys as a big threat. Snapchat is one I've heard because there the user behavior on Roblox"
"I think AI is probably the best thing that's ever happened to Snapchat, which is great."
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"I'm a big fan of Christopher Nolan. I just reread his biography for the second time. And one of my favorite lines in Inception is, 'What is the most resilient parasite?' It's an idea. And the whole thing is, it can't be an idea that somebody else gave you."
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"If I remember correctly from this book called Hard Drive — he was on the board of Microsoft, the only venture investor in Microsoft the year before Microsoft went public."
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"He co-founded Beats with Dr. Dre. They wound up doing Beats Music and the headphones. They sell it to Apple."
"You sell Beats to Apple. What'd that feel like? It felt great."
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"There's this great book called The Intel Trinity. And it talks the story of Intel. And it's called Trinity because the three main players are Bob Noyce, Andy Grove, and Gordon Moore. And there's a great story in the book that I never forgot."
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"He said somebody was going to build the AI native version of Shopify. And he said, 'And it's going to be me.'"
"I sat down with Tobi Lütke, founder of Shopify, which is probably my favorite conversation that I've had on the podcast so far. He started by himself with a single laptop in his wife's childhood bedroom because he had no money."
"Top companies like Ramp, Shopify, 11 Labs, Uber, and DoorDash all use Deal."
"When I talked to Toby Luke, the founder of Shopify, he said something interesting like he thought, you know, his job is to create more entrepreneurs."
"He's doing it through Shopify. I'm obviously doing it through reading all these biographies."
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