What's New

This week's additions focus on mindset, founder stories, and strategy, with new digests from Founders, Ahrefs, and Bill Gallagher. Highlights include Obsessive focus on business created $300B+ wealth but destroyed his marriage and family relationships. Negotiation closes fast links; persuasion wins authority placements months later.

Founder interviews

Podcast

Warren Buffett: How an Obsessive Investor Built Berkshire Hathaway

Founders December 1, 2019

Founder interviews 10

Unit economics 6

Identity & self-belief 5

Obsessive focus on business created $300B+ wealth but destroyed his marriage and family relationships.
His 'inner scorecard' philosophy and deep business thinking gave him unmatched confidence in judgment.
Berkshire's interlocked businesses, access to float, and capital allocation mastery proved the model's supremacy.

SEO

YouTube

How to get backlinks using negotiation and persuasion

Ahrefs November 27, 2019

SEO 9

Prospecting & outreach 7

Negotiation closes fast links; persuasion wins authority placements months later.
Asking too soon kills the deal — let the other person suggest collaboration.
One major publication credit makes every future guest post pitch far easier.

Resilience & grit

YouTube

Leading yourself through crisis: lessons from a year without food

Bill Gallagher November 27, 2019

Resilience & grit 9

Crisis leadership 7

A rare disease left Jeff unable to eat for nearly a year
Doctors said stop working — he became an interim CEO instead
Your company's ceiling is set by your own leadership lid

Competitive analysis

YouTube

Adversarial interoperability: how startups can compete with tech giants

Y Combinator November 27, 2019

Competitive analysis 9

Compliance & regulation 8

Resilience & grit 6

Platforms use copyright law and CFAA to block the tactics they used to win.
A Ninth Circuit ruling lets founders scrape public data without CFAA liability.
Building marginal-legal products creates the constituency that changes the law.

Case studies

Podcast

Bob Iger's vision: Disney's evolution from parks to streaming

Acquired November 25, 2019

Case studies 9

Business models 8

Pivoting 6

Bob Iger's 45-year journey transformed Disney into a streaming powerhouse.
Disney+ launches with unprecedented integration of content creation and distribution.
Overcoming past failures, Disney now competes directly with Netflix and others.

What's New

25 November 2019

Warren Buffett: How an Obsessive Investor Built Berkshire Hathaway

How to get backlinks using negotiation and persuasion

Leading yourself through crisis: lessons from a year without food

Adversarial interoperability: how startups can compete with tech giants

Bob Iger's vision: Disney's evolution from parks to streaming

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