Mike Bloomberg

**David Senra** (0:00)
So, something happened to me this week that has not happened in over five years. And that is, I had failed to successfully complete a new episode that is up to my standards. And so, I spent all of last week reading this incredible book. I'm going to highly recommend that you buy the book because I'm going to spend the next week rereading all of my highlights. Here's the problem. So, the book is, let me tell you what the book is. The book is called The 38 Letters from Rockefeller to His Son. Over a 30-year period, Rockefeller had written 38 letters to his young adult and then older adult son. And he's teaching him how to become a businessman, telling him about his career. The book is incredible, and that is part of the problem. I essentially took notes and highlighted almost the entire book. And I think this book is really important. So, instead of rushing and just getting it out to hit an arbitrary deadline, I'm going to spend the rest of the week rereading and really editing and taking out highlights and notes. So, in the meantime, if you want to buy the book, it's less than 200 pages, you should probably read it before the next episode's out. I will leave a link down below. If not, you can search Amazon and look for the 38 letters from Rockefeller to his son. So, in the meantime, what I want to do is republish one of my favorite episodes. In case you missed it the first time, I did this episode almost two years ago. It is on Michael Bloomberg's autobiography. The book is incredible, the story is incredible, the business he built is incredible. So, if you listen to it when it first came out, you might want to listen to it again. But if you missed it, definitely listen to it. The third thing that I want to talk to you about. There's also like a week left. I'm doing my first ever live show in New York City on October 19th with Patrick O'Shaughnessy from the Invest Like the Best podcast. The last day that I got, there's around 50 tickets, there's only 50 tickets or so left. Depending on when you're listening to this, there's probably less than a week left till the event. So, if you have not got your tickets, please don't do it, I highly recommend getting them now. I will leave a link down in the show notes. You can also go to founderspodcast.com to get your tickets, and you can go straight to the venue. It's at Webster Hall. You can go to Webster Hall in New York City and get the tickets there. And the fourth and final thing I want to tell you about, if you want more founders in the interim while I'm working on this new Rockefeller episode, highly recommend, if you haven't done so already, sign up for the Founders AMA feed. I started doing them every weekday. I'm making these short episodes every Monday through Friday. If you have not already joined Founders AMA to become a member, highly recommend that you do so. Members can email me questions directly. You actually get a private email address in the confirmation email. I'm the only one with access to that email. I'm the only one that reads that email. So you can send me questions. I answer your questions in the short AMA episodes that other members can also hear. With your question, make sure you include your name and then a link to your company so you can promote your company to other members that listen to the AMA feed. And you can also listen to the entire back catalog I've made about 44 of these short episodes already. That link is down below and available at founderspodcast.com. And that's it for me. Hope you enjoy this episode on Michael Bloomberg, and I hope you enjoy the special episode coming next week on John D. Rockefeller.
Periodically, while surrounded by the fruits of our success, the profits, the power, the notoriety, I get frustrated, and I dream of starting again. But something stops me. Perhaps I'm too old. Perhaps I'm afraid it was all luck. Or maybe deep down inside, I really do like the trappings that have accumulated.
Nevertheless, when I find that we just have to clear it with legal, or had a meeting to keep others in the loop, or we are justifying staff versus producers, I want to scream.
We used to have the Nike motto attitude. We just did it. Now there's a why we can't lurking in the background.
Keeping it from coming out while we grow is our number one management focus today.