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David Senra 651 - #433 How Michael Bloomberg Works

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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#433 How Michael Bloomberg Works

#432 The Mind of Napoleon

#431 How Henry Singleton Worked

#430 How to Write Ads That Sell

#429 Bob Dylan's Autobiography

#428 How Claude Shannon Worked

#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company

#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan

#425 The Merchant Bankers

#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly

#423 Soichiro Honda

#422 Joseph Pulitzer

#421 Jony Ive

#420 Steve Jobs In Exile

#419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works

#418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike

#417 Arnold Schwarzenegger

#416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis

#415 How Elon Thinks

#414 How SpaceX Works

#413 How To Run Down A Dream

#412 How Roger Federer Works

#411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi

#410 Excellent Advice for Living

The Singular Life of Rick Rubin

#409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin

#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

The Life of Jesus

#407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself

#406 Christian von Koenigsegg

Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder

#405 How Rockefeller Worked

My conversation with Todd Graves

#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks

My Conversation with Brad Jacobs

#403 How Jensen Works

My Conversation with Michael Dell

#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything

My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify

#401 How Bill Gates Works

#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson

#399 How Elon Works

#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)

#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage

#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari

#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica

#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers

#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire

#391 Jimmy Iovine