#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

**David Senra** (0:00)
Winston Churchill may be the most self-confident young man that I've ever studied on the podcast, and that's saying a lot, because the people that we study on the podcast, their self-confidence levels are through the roof. Just wait until you hear the way Churchill talked about himself when he was younger. Before we get into that, I want to tell you about a product that several of my founder friends are using, and that is Vesto. You can check them out at getvesto.com. Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your business's idle cash. They can actually help businesses of all sizes with their treasury management. When your business owns treasury bills, the US government has guaranteed your cash and you earn interest on the cash while it sits there. I have one founder friend who's raised a bunch of venture capital money, and he uses Vesto as a way to extend his runway. And I have another founder friend who bootstrapped his company, and he uses Vesto to get a better rate of return than he would get if it was just sitting in his bank account. If this sounds interesting to you, highly recommend you go over to getvesto.com, check out what they have to offer. I know the founder, Ben, I've spent a bunch of time with him. If you schedule a demo, you go to vesto.com, you schedule a demo, you actually speak directly to the founder, Ben. I think he's incredibly impressive. And I think if you speak to him, you'll think he's impressive too. You can do this at getvesto.com and I will leave a link down below. When you speak to Ben, make sure you tell him that David from founders sent you. Two more quick things. If you haven't already become a member of the founders AMA feed, highly recommend that you do so. Members can email me questions directly. You actually get a private email address in the confirmation email. And I read every single one of those emails myself. I take the questions that I get from the emails and I answer them by making these short AMA episodes. I've already made 38 of these episodes. So you sign up and you can actually listen to them immediately. In your email, you can also leave your name and a link to your websites. You can promote the company and what you're working on to other members. And you can listen to new AMA episodes every week. To become a member and get access to all of this, the link is down below and available at founderspodcast.com. And lastly, I want to recommend this excellent episode of Invest Like the Best. It's episode 336 with my friend Jeremy Giffin. It's called Special Situations in Private Markets. It's almost 90 minutes straight of unique insight after unique insight. I've heard from a ton of people that listen to this episode. They love it as much as I do. And if you don't know already, I'm actually doing a live show. So Invest Like the Best is run by my friend Patrick. Me and Patrick are actually doing a live show in New York City on October 19th. So come check that out if you want to see me live. I will leave a link to both the episode and To Get Your Tickets. That's everything I need to tell you about. Let's jump into this incredible story of Winston Churchill's capture and his thrilling escape.
Although he was still a very young man, Churchill was no stranger to situations of great personal peril. He had already taken part in four wars on three different continents and had come close to death in each one.
He had felt bullets whistling by his head in Cuba and saw his friends hacked to death in British India. Although he had tried again and again in war after war to win glory, Churchill had returned home every time without the medals that mattered, no more distinguished or famous than he had been when he set out.
The Boer War, he believed, was his best chance to change that, to prove that he was not just the son of a famous man.
He was special, even extraordinary, and he was meant not just to fight for his country, but one day to lead it.
Although he believed this without question, he still had to convince everyone else.
The one scenario that Churchill had not envisioned, was crossing enemy territory alone, without companions or provisions of any kind.
He didn't have a weapon, a map, a compass, or even any food. He didn't speak the language.
Beyond the vagus of outlines, he didn't even have a plan, just the unshakable conviction that he was destined for greatness.