Founders
About this creator
Founders is a podcast built around lessons from the biographies, decisions, and operating principles of exceptional entrepreneurs.
Why they're in the library
Included for clear, credible perspective as podcast built around lessons from the biographies, decisions, and operating principles of exceptional entrepreneurs.
Showing 412 digests for Founders.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Arnold Schwarzenegger's mindset and habits before fame
Founders
June 26, 2023
Deep work & focus
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Origin stories
7
Rejection and a brutal father turned into lifelong rocket fuel
No Plan B: burning the boats creates clarity, not limitation
Formidable people telegraph their obsession — most still underestimate them
How Gaston Glock built a billion-dollar gun company from zero
Founders
June 19, 2023
Business models
9
Founder interviews
8
MVP & prototyping
6
Zero firearms experience became Glock's biggest design advantage
65%+ gross margins from radical simplicity and computer-controlled manufacturing
Free media controversy and law enforcement giveaways drove mass civilian demand
How great family dynasties rise, decline, and endure across generations
Founders
June 12, 2023
Origin stories
9
Long-term planning
7
Culture building
6
Success itself is the biggest threat to dynastic continuity.
Toyota's lean production system took 60 years and a wartime pivot to prove out.
Rockefeller built the greatest oil empire but deliberately never built a dynasty.
David Ogilvy's principles for advertising, talent, and excellence
Founders
June 5, 2023
Copywriting
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Why tolerating difficult people is the price of remarkable advertising
Repeating your best ad for decades beats chasing novelty
Becoming the most-informed person in the room beats talent alone
Founder interviews
Podcast
Robert Caro on power, obsession, and the relentless pursuit of craft
Founders
May 29, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Your greatest talent often grows from your deepest childhood wound
Real power operates at a ruthlessness most people never conceive of
Turning every page — not skipping — is what separates good from great
Founder interviews
Podcast
Sol Price: the retail pioneer behind Costco, Walmart, and Home Depot
Founders
May 22, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Processes & SOPs
6
The membership warehouse model was invented to circumvent price-control laws.
Customer demand is most sensitive to price, not selection — fewer SKUs lower costs.
Sol taught Jim Sinegal everything; Sinegal built the better executor's version.
Rose Blumkin: how an illiterate immigrant built Nebraska Furniture Mart
Founders
May 14, 2023
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Resilience & grit
7
Sell 10% over cost — the rule that beat every competitor
Buffett would rather wrestle Grizzlies than compete with her
Started a rival store at 96 after quitting her own company
Napoleon's mind: destiny, genius, and the will to act
Founders
May 8, 2023
Goal setting
9
Resilience & grit
8
Case studies
7
Sacrifice everything — comfort, happiness, self-interest — to fulfill your destiny
Luck is the ability to exploit accidents; genius is doing it consistently
Someone will always pay the full price to win; don't underestimate them
Founder interviews
Podcast
Tiger Woods: obsession, practice, and the cost of an extreme upbringing
Founders
May 1, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
7
Earl's psychological warfare built Tiger's bulletproof mind — and its consequences
Visualization, affirmations, and Nicklaus's age records drove every goal
Ignoring the recover-or-break-down lesson destroyed the body that won everything
Founder interviews
Podcast
James Dyson: 5,127 prototypes and 13 years to own his invention
Founders
April 24, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Every time Dyson relinquished control, he lost money and got betrayed
5,127 prototypes built alone in an unheated garage over three years
Obsessive product quality beats every conventional business strategy
Steve Jobs in his own words: lessons from Make Something Wonderful
Founders
April 17, 2023
Origin stories
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Resilience & grit
5
Why making something with love is more powerful than chasing money
How Jobs used mortality as a daily decision-making tool
The recruiting obsession behind every Apple and Pixar breakthrough
Founder interviews
Podcast
Sam Zell, William Zeckendorf, and the pursuit of freedom over money
Founders
April 10, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
8
Pivoting
6
Sam Zell at 81: still doing deals, optimising for freedom not money
Zeckendorf's Hawaiian technique made one plus one equal three
How debt addiction destroyed a $25–30B real estate empire
Founder interviews
Podcast
Yvon Chouinard: building Patagonia on quality, simplicity, and purpose
Founders
April 3, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
8
Business models
7
Why 'make the best, period' beats competing on price
Teaching company philosophy to employees revealed Chouinard's own 'why'
YARAC: why leaders must invent crises to keep companies evolving
Bernard Arnault: how the wolf took control of LVMH
Founders
March 27, 2023
Business models
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Case studies
5
How Arnault used warring co-founders to seize LVMH at 40.
Owning distribution and cutting licences made Dior's brand magic compound.
Cash, patience, and secrecy let him buy what rivals dismissed as overpriced.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Charlie Munger: lessons from a three-hour dinner with a legend
Founders
March 21, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Deep work & focus
7
Cash flow management
6
Why great businesses cause fewer problems than mediocre ones
Patience and concentrated bets beat diversification every time
A long attention span matters more than raw intelligence