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David Senra

#13 in Business this week

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work.

This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen

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  • Jan 25, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min

    #164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)

    What I learned from reading Rocket Man: Robert Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary.

  • Jan 18, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min

    #163 Alfred Nobel

    What I learned from reading Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant.

  • Jan 11, 2021 · 1 hr 19 min

    #162 Chuck Yeager

    What I learned from reading Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager.

  • Jan 4, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min

    #161 Dr. Seuss

    What I learned from reading Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones.

  • Dec 28, 2020 · 1 hr 9 min

    #160 Peter Cundill

    What I learned from reading Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist by Christopher Risso-Gill.

  • Dec 14, 2020 · 51 min

    #158 Walt Disney (Disneyland)

    What I learned from reading Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow.

  • Nov 30, 2020 · 56 min

    #156 Theodore Roosevelt

    What I learned from reading Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Nov 12, 2020 · 1 hr 18 min

    #153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)

    What I learned from reading Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder by Kenny Moore.

  • Oct 29, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min

    #151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)

    What I learned from reading Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator by Vance Trimble.

  • Oct 5, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min

    #147 Sam Colt

    What I learned from reading Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America by Jim Rasenberger.

  • Sep 27, 2020 · 49 min

    #146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate)

    What I learned from reading Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio.

  • Sep 20, 2020 · 1 hr 5 min

    #145 William Randolph Hearst

    What I learned from reading The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw.

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