Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard

They're like, Would you be interested in selling your company? The response was Fuck you, this is a family heirloom. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to I'll put my law in it like my days off. On the roadless travel, never looking back. Okay, so what we're talking about today is basically I don't listen to any business podcasts other than Founders. It's the only business podcast I listen to. I listen to Founders and I listen to MMA and True Crime. That's pretty much it. Uh and so like I I I view you as my friend, but I also am a fan of yours.

And You Tweet out this amazing thing. It was about the anti business person, the anti businessman billionaire. So the first tenant of these uh anti business billionaires is they have high levels of disagreeableness.

This is very important because everybody around you I just use the reference of Michael Dell. Michael Dell could be on this list too. I'm reading his autobiography, like I said earlier, and I got to the point where they're like he's he's taking the company private. And they're just it's so difficult what he's trying to do. And it was just like Why don't you just give up, Michael? You're already rich. You can start another company.

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