This week's additions focus on founder stories, strategy, and finance, with new digests from Founders, Masters of Scale, and Noah Kagan. Highlights include Kroc signed the McDonald's deal at 52, broke, with diabetes Embarrassment at launch is a feature, not a bug.

Origin stories

Podcast

Ray Kroc's McDonald's: persistence, franchising, and real estate genius

Founders May 27, 2017

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Origin stories 10

Business models 8

Bootstrapping 6

• Kroc signed the McDonald's deal at 52, broke, with diabetes
• McDonald's real value: a real estate business, not a burger chain
• McDonald's brothers' $2.7M buyout was worth billions in hindsight

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Founder interviews

Podcast

Why shipping imperfect products faster beats waiting for perfect ones

Masters of Scale May 24, 2017

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Founder interviews 10

Iteration & feedback loops 8

Business operating systems 5

• Embarrassment at launch is a feature, not a bug.
• Facebook ran 10,000 simultaneous product versions to learn faster.
• Users can't predict their own reactions — so ship and watch.

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Deep work & focus

YouTube

Warren Buffett's six counterintuitive investing principles

Noah Kagan May 22, 2017

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Deep work & focus 8

Productivity & habits 6

• 90% of Buffett's wealth sits in just 10 companies
• Be greedy when others panic — timing contrarianism beats market timing
• Patience turned a winning trade into a $7,000 loss when sold early

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