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.

Example Transcripts

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

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