Episodes featuring Founders Podcast
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Founders Podcast host profiles One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, drawing on decades of interviews to show how his extreme work ethic, refusal to delegate, and focus on pleasing his 15-year-old self built the bestselling...
The Founders Podcast host covers Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, tracing James Garfield's rise from poverty to the presidency and how doctors who ignored germ theory, more than the bullet, ended his 199-day...
Founders Podcast breaks down how Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould, and Morgan built dominant businesses, using their contrasting strategies to draw lessons for founders today.
David Senra of Founders Podcast breaks down Ari Emanuel's memoir, covering how Emanuel built Endeavor into a $13 billion company through relentless outreach, deal-making, and betting on technology early.
The Founders Podcast examines Mark Zuckerberg's 25-year run building Meta, using Roman imperial history and the dictator's dilemma to explain how he has survived repeated crises and is now betting on AI.
The Founders Podcast looks at how Sam Walton built Walmart by applying a few simple principles repeatedly over decades, turning rural isolation and tight budgets into advantages.
The Founders Podcast breaks down Michael Bloomberg's autobiography, tracing how he went from fired Wall Street trader to founder of one of the world's most valuable private companies.
The Founders Podcast examines Napoleon's thinking through his own words, drawing out practical principles around planning, execution, and ambition that apply to entrepreneurs and builders.
The Founders Podcast examines Henry Singleton, who built Teledyne into a conglomerate delivering 20.4% annual returns over 30 years through disciplined capital allocation and decentralized management.
The Founders Podcast host breaks down Claude Hopkins' core advertising principles from two classic books that shaped modern copywriting and influenced David Ogilvy.
The Founders Podcast host walks through Bob Dylan's memoir Chronicles Volume 1, arguing that Dylan created himself through obsessive study of music, history and books, and kept going through fame, burnout and...
The Founders Podcast examines Claude Shannon's life and how his problem-solving approach, curiosity-driven work, and indifference to external validation led to the foundations of the digital age.
Founders Podcast tells the story of Raymond Plank, who turned a $250,000 investment in 1954 into Apache Corporation, a $50 billion oil and gas company, by exploiting inefficiencies larger rivals ignored.
The Founders Podcast breaks down how Christopher Nolan went from rejected film school applicant to director with $5 billion in box office revenue, using obsession and discipline.
The Founders Podcast examines merchant banking dynasties like the Rothschilds and Lehman Brothers to draw out timeless principles for building wealth and operating at high leverage with minimal overhead.
The Founders Podcast breaks down Peter Thiel's Zero to One, covering how to build a company so differentiated that it becomes a creative monopoly.
The Founders Podcast examines Soichiro Honda, the engineer who built a global company by finding broken products, improving them obsessively, and refusing government protection in favor of pure quality.
The Founders Podcast traces Joseph Pulitzer's rise from homeless immigrant to media mogul, drawing out the competitive tactics and personal costs behind building a 19th-century newspaper empire.
The Founders Podcast explores how Jony Ive's obsession with simplicity and design story transformed Apple into a product powerhouse through small teams, fanatical craft, and fast decisions.
Founders Podcast traces Steve Jobs' 12-year exile from Apple between 1985 and 1997, examining how failure and humility shaped him into a better leader.