Founders Podcast

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"One of my favorite all-time podcast episodes that I've listened to in the last few years was on Rick Rubin's podcast. He interviewed Jimmy Iovine."

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"There's this great book called Working Backwards. It's basically on the way Jeff Bezos works. And when Jeff Bezos was running Amazon, there was a phrase inside Amazon that would be repeated over and over: be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details."

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"Oda's creation One Piece is one of the most successful and highest grossing media franchises in history. It's the bestselling manga and comic book series in history."

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"Akira Toriyama was the manga artist that created Dragon Ball. And he is the reason that Oda wanted to serialize One Piece in the same magazine."

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"There's this great book on Steve Jobs called Insanely Simple. There's a great line from Insanely Simple that I thought of when I read this: the quality of work resulting from a project is inversely proportional to the number of people involved in the project."

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"One of my favorite books on Henry Ford, and I've read, I don't know, 10 books on Henry Ford. There's this guy that worked with him for 40 years and he wrote this book called My 40 Years with Ford."

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"Candice Millard is one of my favorite authors. She wrote this book called The River of Doubt, which I covered all the way back on episode 175. It's about Theodore Roosevelt."

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"This is the changing point of his life. It reminds me, if you've ever seen the movie Good Will Hunting, reminds you of Will Hunting."

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"One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the book Zero to One. In that book, Peter Thiel writes: 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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"She also wrote a biography of the first, I think, 25 or 26 years of Winston Churchill's life. It's called Hero of the Empire, and that is episode 319."

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"There's this great biography of the partnership that he had with Henry Clay Frick that's called Meet You in Hell. I've done an episode on that."

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"I like reading about Carnegie. I've read his autobiography, I think twice."

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"I read this book, I think it's probably like a 600 or 700 page history of the Morgan family. I think it's called The House of Morgan if I remember correctly... I actually thought his dad Junius was by far the more impressive man."

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"Have you ever seen the movie The Aviator? The Aviator is about Howard Hughes, right? And in that he's trying to build this plane... he was just pushing his team."

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"If you listen to the podcast I did on Michael Dell's autobiography Play Nice But Win, Egon is the one that first approached Michael Dell with the idea of taking Dell private."

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"He became famous because he's the inspiration for the character Ari Gold, the agent in the show Entourage that was on HBO for a very long time."

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"She hands Jeremy a laptop, and it is opened to her daughter's Google Docs and Replit accounts."

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"She hands Jeremy a laptop, and it is opened to her daughter's Google Docs and Replit accounts."

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"There's a book review of Where the Mountains Meet the Moon."

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"When Meta released Llama 3.1, it was near the frontier, but by the time they released Llama 4 in April 2025, they were far behind."