#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell

**David Senra** (0:00)
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Okay, so this episode is going to be a little different. What I'm going to do first is go into detail about what I learned from having a two-hour lunch with Sam Zell. He sat directly across from me for two hours. I got to stare in his eyes and hear crazy, crazy stories from his amazing more than six-decade career of being an entrepreneur. And then after that, you're going to hear a normal Founders episode where I go into detail about what I learned from reading William Zeckendorf's autobiography. And that came about because as I was talking to Sam Zell, I was like, hey, when I was reading your autobiography, Sam, you mentioned reading Zeckendorf's autobiography when you were a young man, and you thought it was very valuable. You got a good idea out of there.