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Founders

David Senra

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…

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#439 How Eiichiro Oda Works 2026-11-04 · 33m
#438 James Garfield's Extraordinary Rise 2026-10-26 · 38m
#437 The Tycoons: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould & Morgan 2026-10-13 · 54m
#436 Ari Emanuel's Autobiography 2026-10-05 · 70m
#435 Mark Zuckerberg's Empire 2026-09-28 · 41m
#434 Sam Walton 2026-09-21 · 49m
#433 How Michael Bloomberg Works 2026-09-14 · 49m
#432 The Mind of Napoleon 2026-09-05 · 56m
#431 How Henry Singleton Worked 2026-08-31 · 49m
#430 How to Write Ads That Sell 2026-08-23 · 64m
#429 Bob Dylan's Autobiography 2026-08-16 · 60m
#428 How Claude Shannon Worked 2026-08-09 · 51m
#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company 2026-08-01 · 38m
#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan 2026-07-26 · 51m
#425 The Merchant Bankers 2026-07-19 · 46m
#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly 2026-07-10 · 54m
#423 Soichiro Honda 2026-06-28 · 48m
#422 Joseph Pulitzer 2026-06-20 · 53m
#421 Jony Ive 2026-06-10 · 53m
#420 Steve Jobs In Exile 2026-06-04 · 54m
#419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works 2026-05-16 · 50m
#418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike 2026-05-07 · 63m
#417 Arnold Schwarzenegger 2026-04-19 · 44m
#416 The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis 2026-04-01 · 55m
#415 How Elon Thinks 2026-03-24 · 51m
#414 How SpaceX Works 2026-03-08 · 41m
#413 How To Run Down A Dream 2026-03-03 · 31m
#412 How Roger Federer Works 2026-02-19 · 49m
#411 Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi 2026-02-04 · 61m
#410 Excellent Advice for Living 2026-01-25 · 38m
The Singular Life of Rick Rubin 2026-01-16 · 81m
#409 The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin 2026-01-08 · 43m
#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs 2025-12-29 · 43m
The Life of Jesus 2025-12-25 · 35m
#407 Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself 2025-12-14 · 73m
#406 Christian von Koenigsegg 2025-12-03 · 46m
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder 2025-11-25 · 60m
#405 How Rockefeller Worked 2025-11-17 · 58m
My conversation with Todd Graves 2025-11-09 · 121m
#404 How Larry Ellison Thinks 2025-11-04 · 62m
My Conversation with Brad Jacobs 2025-10-28 · 124m
#403 How Jensen Works 2025-10-20 · 55m
My Conversation with Michael Dell 2025-10-13 · 92m
#402 Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything 2025-10-05 · 32m
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify 2025-09-28 · 130m
#401 How Bill Gates Works 2025-09-24 · 68m
#400 The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson 2025-09-12 · 73m
#399 How Elon Works 2025-08-25 · 93m
#398 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful) 2025-08-14 · 121m
#397 Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage 2025-08-04 · 41m
#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari 2025-07-30 · 57m
#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport 2025-07-22 · 65m
#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica 2025-07-13 · 68m
#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers 2025-07-03 · 55m
#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire 2025-06-23 · 55m
#391 Jimmy Iovine 2025-06-13 · 57m
#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview 2025-06-04 · 41m
#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon 2025-05-26 · 56m
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them! 2025-05-15 · 79m
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters! 2025-05-13 · 72m
A conversation on focus and finding your life's work 2025-05-09 · 82m
#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine 2025-05-01 · 68m
#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony 2025-04-22 · 72m
#385 Michael Dell 2025-04-14 · 108m
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities 2025-04-01 · 67m
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig 2025-03-23 · 50m
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream 2025-03-17 · 68m
#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood 2025-03-07 · 91m
#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz 2025-03-07 · 27m
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words 2025-02-25 · 82m
#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys) 2025-02-18 · 60m
#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess 2025-02-10 · 53m
#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr. 2025-01-27 · 64m
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia 2025-01-13 · 101m
#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green 2025-01-06 · 54m
The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai 2024-12-27 · 76m
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview 2024-12-15 · 36m
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars 2024-12-06 · 94m
#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group 2024-11-29 · 49m
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder 2024-11-18 · 59m
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad 2024-11-12 · 66m
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX 2024-11-01 · 64m
Steve Jobs and Edwin Land 2024-10-20 · 62m
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography 2024-10-15 · 56m
#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell 2024-10-08 · 50m
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo 2024-09-27 · 45m
#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners 2024-09-16 · 56m
#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership 2024-09-10 · 45m
#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett 2024-09-06 · 84m
#362 Li Lu 2024-08-26 · 38m
#361 Estée Lauder 2024-08-18 · 58m
#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal 2024-08-12 · 57m
#359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty 2024-08-07 · 66m
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods 2024-07-28 · 94m
#357 Haruki Murakami 2024-07-21 · 59m
#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel) 2024-07-12 · 58m
#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview 2024-07-04 · 44m
#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man 2024-06-29 · 93m
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty 2024-06-23 · 64m
#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America 2024-06-15 · 90m
#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf 2024-06-04 · 57m
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs 2024-05-27 · 47m
#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple 2024-05-20 · 52m
Michael Jordan In His Own Words 2024-05-12 · 96m
#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger 2024-05-07 · 76m
#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland 2024-04-29 · 78m
#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself 2024-04-22 · 107m
#345 George Lucas 2024-04-12 · 119m
Steven Spielberg 2024-04-04 · 99m
#344 Quentin Tarantino 2024-03-30 · 66m
#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy 2024-03-24 · 32m
#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant) 2024-03-18 · 53m
#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War) 2024-03-11 · 66m
#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant 2024-03-01 · 84m
Jay Z's Autobiography 2024-02-25 · 128m
#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer 2024-02-20 · 64m
#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire 2024-02-13 · 60m
#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy 2024-02-05 · 61m
#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull 2024-02-01 · 86m
#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs 2024-01-23 · 73m
#334 Oprah 2024-01-16 · 70m
#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz 2024-01-08 · 69m
#332 Jesus 2023-12-24 · 35m
#331 Christian Dior 2023-12-18 · 61m
#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book) 2023-12-11 · 97m
#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack) 2023-12-05 · 114m
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger 2023-11-29 · 31m
#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager) 2023-11-22 · 43m
#327 Ted Turner 2023-11-14 · 87m
#326 Anna Wintour 2023-11-06 · 72m
#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer) 2023-10-29 · 72m
#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son) 2023-10-21 · 106m
Mike Bloomberg 2023-10-10 · 81m
#323 Jimmy Buffett 2023-10-03 · 66m
#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) 2023-09-26 · 43m
#321 Working with Jeff Bezos 2023-09-21 · 57m
#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2 2023-09-14 · 55m
Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale) 2023-09-11 · 90m
#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1 2023-09-05 · 48m
The best interview I've ever done about Founders 2023-09-03 · 81m
#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed) 2023-08-27 · 48m
#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar) 2023-08-21 · 65m
#316 Bugatti 2023-08-14 · 58m
#315 Balenciaga 2023-08-07 · 36m
#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work) 2023-07-31 · 58m
#313 Christopher Nolan 2023-07-25 · 49m
#312 Mark Twain 2023-07-19 · 55m
#311 James Cameron 2023-07-12 · 72m
#310 Walt Disney and Picasso 2023-07-04 · 52m
Michael Jordan (The Life) 2023-06-30 · 99m
#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful) 2023-06-26 · 40m
#308 The Founder of Glock 2023-06-19 · 40m
#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada 2023-06-12 · 63m
#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) 2023-06-05 · 48m
#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession 2023-05-29 · 55m
#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus) 2023-05-22 · 60m
#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder) 2023-05-14 · 33m
#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon) 2023-05-08 · 50m
#301 Tiger Woods 2023-05-01 · 64m
#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds) 2023-04-24 · 81m
#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful) 2023-04-17 · 121m
#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell 2023-04-10 · 90m
#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) 2023-04-03 · 60m
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast 2023-03-29 · 190m
#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) 2023-03-27 · 68m
#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger 2023-03-21 · 78m
#294 Napoleon 2023-03-13 · 43m
#293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's) 2023-03-06 · 52m
#292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire) 2023-02-27 · 47m
#291 David Packard (Founder of HP) 2023-02-20 · 47m
#290 Bill Gates 2023-02-13 · 47m
#289 Brunello Cucinelli 2023-02-07 · 53m
#288 Ralph Lauren 2023-01-31 · 61m
#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce 2023-01-23 · 32m
#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger 2023-01-16 · 71m
#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune) 2023-01-10 · 60m
#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick 2023-01-02 · 67m
#283 Andrew Carnegie 2022-12-26 · 52m
#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters 2022-12-19 · 70m
#281 Working with Steve Jobs 2022-12-12 · 41m
The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea 2022-12-09 · 75m
#280 Jimi Hendrix 2022-12-06 · 55m
#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett 2022-11-29 · 56m
#278 Peter Thiel 2022-11-22 · 57m
#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3 2022-11-17 · 48m
#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2 2022-11-09 · 42m
#275 Paul Graham 2022-11-03 · 80m
#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape) 2022-10-27 · 53m
#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality) 2022-10-26 · 31m
#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life) 2022-10-19 · 56m
#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century) 2022-10-12 · 53m
#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action) 2022-10-06 · 65m
#269 Sam Zell 2022-09-29 · 68m
#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy) 2022-09-21 · 61m
#267 Thomas Edison 2022-09-14 · 70m
#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography 2022-09-08 · 74m
#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader 2022-08-30 · 86m
#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid 2022-08-24 · 54m
#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It 2022-08-18 · 72m
#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator) 2022-08-11 · 59m
#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two 2022-08-04 · 39m
#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization 2022-08-03 · 81m
#259 Bob Dylan 2022-07-27 · 78m
#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street) 2022-07-22 · 99m
#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration) 2022-07-15 · 78m
#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion) 2022-07-09 · 78m
#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King) 2022-07-02 · 90m
#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers 2022-06-27 · 101m
#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs) 2022-06-22 · 56m
#252 Socrates 2022-06-17 · 47m
#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership 2022-06-13 · 57m
#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived) 2022-06-08 · 57m
Steve Jobs's Heroes 2022-06-02 · 31m
#249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words 2022-06-01 · 50m
#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan) 2022-05-28 · 111m
#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner) 2022-05-19 · 76m
#246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters 2022-05-13 · 56m
#245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio) 2022-05-08 · 81m
#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger) 2022-05-03 · 65m
#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire) 2022-04-25 · 76m
#242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life 2022-04-21 · 89m
#241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies 2022-04-14 · 87m
#240 Mozart: A Life 2022-04-07 · 46m
Steve Jobs and His Heroes 2022-04-01 · 30m
#239 The Wright Brothers 2022-03-29 · 93m
#238 Jay Z: Decoded 2022-03-23 · 118m
#237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon) 2022-03-16 · 71m
#236 Nims Purja (Mountain Climber) 2022-03-11 · 64m
#235 Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story) 2022-03-07 · 78m
#234 Sam Walton: Made In America 2022-02-28 · 115m
#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal) 2022-02-23 · 114m
#232 Alexander the Great 2022-02-16 · 63m
#231 William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts) 2022-02-12 · 79m
#230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) 2022-02-07 · 63m
#229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon) 2022-01-30 · 94m
#228 Michael Bloomberg 2022-01-27 · 81m
I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10! 2022-01-24 · 12m
#227 The Essays of Warren Buffett 2022-01-20 · 117m
#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle 2022-01-12 · 67m
#225 Winston Churchill 2022-01-09 · 83m
#224 Charles de Gaulle 2022-01-05 · 110m
#223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend 2021-12-29 · 75m
#222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint) 2021-12-20 · 98m
#221 Charlie Munger 2021-12-13 · 85m
#220 Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine 2021-12-09 · 82m
#219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography 2021-11-30 · 107m
#218 Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football) 2021-11-25 · 58m
#217 Estée Lauder 2021-11-18 · 83m
#216 Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans) 2021-11-14 · 89m
#215: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius) 2021-11-09 · 57m
#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography 2021-11-03 · 132m
#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within 2021-10-27 · 67m
#212 Michael Jordan: The Life 2021-10-23 · 98m
#211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life 2021-10-16 · 75m
#210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 2021-10-10 · 70m
#209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography 2021-10-06 · 71m
#208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett 2021-09-29 · 82m
#207 Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising) 2021-09-26 · 51m
#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry) 2021-09-23 · 97m
#205 James Dyson (Invention: A Life) 2021-09-18 · 112m
#204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain) 2021-09-14 · 59m
#203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital) 2021-09-08 · 87m
#202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett 2021-09-02 · 67m
#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero) 2021-08-30 · 74m
#200 James Dyson (Against the Odds) 2021-08-27 · 134m
#199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life 2021-08-20 · 64m
#198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty) 2021-08-18 · 75m
#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty 2021-08-11 · 77m
#196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2) 2021-08-07 · 79m
#195 Sid Meier (Computer game designer) 2021-07-31 · 74m
#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy) 2021-07-27 · 78m
#193 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography) 2021-07-22 · 59m
#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS) 2021-07-19 · 68m
#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness) 2021-07-13 · 66m
#190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison 2021-07-10 · 60m
#189 David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most) 2021-07-05 · 59m
#188 Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes) 2021-06-28 · 75m
#187 Albert Einstein 2021-06-22 · 85m
#186 Phil Knight (Nike) 2021-06-16 · 103m
#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef) 2021-06-10 · 82m
#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons) 2021-06-06 · 77m
#183 Johnny Carson 2021-06-04 · 78m
#182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist) 2021-05-29 · 73m
#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos) 2021-05-23 · 73m
#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire) 2021-05-17 · 64m
Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets) 2021-05-13 · 63m
#179 Jeff Bezos 2021-05-10 · 81m
#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products 2021-05-03 · 82m
#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy) 2021-04-26 · 69m
#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) 2021-04-18 · 53m
#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 2021-04-11 · 80m
#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive) 2021-04-05 · 48m
#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios) 2021-03-28 · 69m
#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX) 2021-03-21 · 66m
#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away) 2021-03-15 · 69m
#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising) 2021-03-08 · 79m
#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue) 2021-03-01 · 88m
#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) 2021-02-21 · 68m
#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation) 2021-02-19 · 57m
#166 Robert Noyce (Intel) 2021-02-08 · 73m
#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age) 2021-02-01 · 62m
#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man) 2021-01-25 · 65m
#163 Alfred Nobel 2021-01-18 · 62m
#162 Chuck Yeager 2021-01-11 · 80m
#161 Dr. Seuss 2021-01-04 · 67m
#160 Peter Cundill 2020-12-28 · 70m
#159 Andy Grove (Intel) 2020-12-21 · 70m
#158 Walt Disney (Disneyland) 2020-12-14 · 52m
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 2020-12-07 · 58m
#156 Theodore Roosevelt 2020-11-30 · 57m
#155 Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches) 2020-11-23 · 68m
#154 Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown) 2020-11-19 · 53m
#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike) 2020-11-12 · 78m
#152 Katherine Graham (Washington Post) 2020-11-05 · 63m
#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx) 2020-10-29 · 68m
#150 Sam Walton (America's Richest Man) 2020-10-24 · 54m
#149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires) 2020-10-18 · 71m
#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography) 2020-10-11 · 57m
#147 Sam Colt 2020-10-05 · 69m
#146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate) 2020-09-27 · 49m
#145 William Randolph Hearst 2020-09-20 · 66m
#144 Ernest Shackleton 2020-09-13 · 55m
#143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of) 2020-09-06 · 56m
#142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan 2020-08-30 · 51m
#141 Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story) 2020-08-23 · 63m
#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire) 2020-08-16 · 55m
#139 J.P. Morgan 2020-08-09 · 68m
#138 Alexander Graham Bell 2020-08-02 · 61m
#137 P.T. Barnum 2020-07-26 · 63m
#136 Estée Lauder 2020-07-18 · 45m
#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media) 2020-07-12 · 67m
#134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak) 2020-07-01 · 78m
#133 Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It) 2020-06-25 · 55m
#132 Edwin Land (Steve Jobs's Hero) 2020-06-20 · 62m
#131 Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner) 2020-06-14 · 64m
#130 Walter Chrysler 2020-06-09 · 68m
#129 Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich) 2020-06-04 · 59m
#128 Henry Leland (Cadillac) 2020-05-31 · 70m
#127 Larry Ellison (Oracle) 2020-05-25 · 59m
#126: Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic) 2020-05-20 · 69m
#125 Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder) 2020-05-15 · 71m
#124 Larry Ellison and Oracle 2020-05-09 · 72m
#123 Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon) 2020-05-01 · 65m
#122 Alfred Sloan (General Motors) 2020-04-26 · 65m
#121 Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors) 2020-04-19 · 82m
#120 Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors) 2020-04-11 · 71m
#119 The Dodge Brothers 2020-04-05 · 54m
#118 Forty Years With Henry Ford 2020-03-31 · 80m
#117 : Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I've read) 2020-03-26 · 80m
#116 Sam Bronfman (Seagram's and the Bronfman family dynasty) 2020-03-21 · 67m
#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life 2020-03-16 · 46m
#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time 2020-03-09 · 80m
#113 A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire) 2020-03-05 · 68m
#112 Frank Lloyd Wright 2020-02-24 · 81m
#111 David Geffen 2020-02-16 · 83m
#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne) 2020-02-10 · 86m
#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas) 2020-02-03 · 73m
#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer) 2020-01-26 · 67m
#107 Sol Price (Costco) 2020-01-20 · 69m
#106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself) 2020-01-12 · 66m
#105 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book) 2020-01-05 · 79m
#104 Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA) 2019-12-30 · 82m
#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America) 2019-12-22 · 62m
#102 Akio Morita (Sony) 2019-12-15 · 76m
#101 Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett) 2019-12-08 · 42m
#100 Warren Buffett (The Snowball) 2019-12-01 · 86m
#99 Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business) 2019-11-24 · 78m
#98 Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire) 2019-11-18 · 63m
#97 Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford) 2019-11-10 · 55m
#96 James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest) 2019-11-04 · 59m
#95 Claude Shannon 2019-10-27 · 65m
#94 Henry Singleton (The Outsiders) 2019-10-20 · 81m
#93 Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets) 2019-10-13 · 68m
#92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon 2019-10-07 · 82m
#91 Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett) 2019-09-29 · 61m
#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack) 2019-09-22 · 97m
#89 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man) 2019-09-15 · 81m
#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them! 2019-09-08 · 181m
#87 Thomas Watson (IBM) 2019-09-01 · 72m
#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon) 2019-08-25 · 81m
#85 Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends) 2019-08-18 · 69m
#84 Aristotle Onassis 2019-08-11 · 88m
#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World 2019-08-04 · 110m
#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising) 2019-07-28 · 64m
#81 Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce) 2019-07-22 · 72m
#80 Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow) 2019-07-14 · 46m
#79 Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor) 2019-07-07 · 73m
#78 Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger) 2019-06-30 · 59m
#77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years) 2019-06-23 · 98m
#76 Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple 2019-06-16 · 73m
#75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner 2019-06-09 · 83m
#74 The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie 2019-06-02 · 55m
#73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America 2019-05-26 · 92m
#72 Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel 2019-05-19 · 59m
#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters 2019-05-12 · 108m
#70 Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital 2019-05-06 · 59m
#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly 2019-04-28 · 73m
#68 Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire 2019-04-21 · 87m
#67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty 2019-04-14 · 86m
#66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West 2019-04-07 · 85m
#65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History 2019-03-31 · 70m
#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets 2019-03-24 · 58m
#63 The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich 2019-03-10 · 84m
#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 2019-03-04 · 67m
#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger 2019-02-25 · 90m
#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years 2019-02-18 · 72m
#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire 2019-02-11 · 111m
#58 John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life 2019-02-04 · 58m
#57 John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution 2019-01-28 · 90m
#56 The Biography of Herb Kelleher 2019-01-22 · 70m
#55 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer 2019-01-14 · 83m
#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 2019-01-08 · 90m
#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz? 2019-01-01 · 107m
#52 The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders 2018-12-25 · 91m
#51 Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic 2018-12-17 · 87m
#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive 2018-12-11 · 65m
#49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson 2018-12-03 · 41m
#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson 2018-11-26 · 76m
#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way 2018-11-19 · 73m
#46 I Love Capitalism: An American Story 2018-11-13 · 71m
#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion 2018-11-05 · 80m
#44 A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft 2018-10-30 · 83m
#43 Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work 2018-10-22 · 63m
#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization 2018-10-16 · 87m
#41 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers 2018-10-08 · 60m
#40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid 2018-10-02 · 69m
#39 Walt Disney: An American Original 2018-09-24 · 96m
#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos 2018-09-17 · 90m
#37 The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King 2018-09-09 · 81m
#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent 2018-09-03 · 45m
#35 George Lucas: A Life 2018-08-26 · 82m
#34 Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar 2018-08-20 · 88m
#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World 2018-08-12 · 80m
#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built 2018-08-09 · 108m
#31 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 2018-08-02 · 158m
#30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 2018-07-09 · 38m
#29 The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company 2018-07-02 · 39m
#28 The Wright Brothers 2018-06-25 · 42m
#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur 2018-06-15 · 85m
#26 My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford 2018-05-02 · 53m
#25 Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson 2018-04-22 · 86m
#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet 2018-04-15 · 75m
#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story 2018-04-07 · 62m
#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story 2018-03-20 · 63m
#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 2018-03-01 · 89m
#20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business) 2018-02-06 · 43m
#19 Becoming Steve Jobs 2018-01-19 · 74m
#18 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman 2018-01-08 · 57m
#17 Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 2018-01-01 · 64m
#16 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller 2017-12-08 · 64m
#15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography 2017-11-17 · 47m
#14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal 2017-09-17 · 38m
#13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars 2017-08-27 · 55m
#12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World 2017-08-20 · 41m
#11 The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce 2017-08-13 · 45m
#10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 2017-07-27 · 65m
#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford 2017-07-10 · 71m
#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company 2017-06-20 · 61m
#7 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's 2017-05-27 · 63m
#6 Sam Walton 2017-05-14 · 64m
#5 Steve Jobs 2017-04-30 · 96m
#4 The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy 2017-04-19 · 57m
#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World 2017-03-24 · 87m
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#1 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future 2016-09-19 · 58m
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