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Ambition
by Justin Gordon
Ambition is a podcast about the world's most ambitious people from history and today, and the lessons you can take from their lives and use in your own work and life. Each episode is deeply researched, built around the definitive biography of one person (or in some cases, two), with dozens of hours spent reading, synthesizing, and pulling out what actually matters: what they built, how they thought, the struggles they overcame, and the tactics, strategies, and principles underneath it all.
Episodes
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Akio Morita (Sony Co-Founder)
He was the 15th-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing family, and his father let him walk away. In 1946, he and Masaru Ibuka pooled about $500 in the ruins of postwar Tokyo to start the company that became Sony. When Bulova offered to buy 100,000 of his radios on the condition that they...
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Kobe Bryant (The Mamba Mentality)
Kobe Bryant started his workouts at 5 am to fit in an extra session a day, took up tap dancing to strengthen his ankles, and read the referees’ handbook to learn where the officials couldn’t see. That obsession carried him through 20 seasons with the Lakers and five championships. This is the…
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Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway)
By 31, Charlie Munger had been through a divorce and had just lost his nine-year-old son to leukemia. He went on to become Warren Buffett's partner and the man Buffett called the architect of Berkshire Hathaway, a struggling textile company they built into one of the most valuable companies in…
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Roy Thomson (Billionaire Media Baron)
He was the son of a Toronto barber, still broke at 40 after failing at business after business. Then he bought a small-town radio station and a small-town newspaper with $200 down. By the time he died at 82, he owned more than 200 newspapers, including The Times of London, and held the Scottish…
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Sam Zemurray (America's Banana King)
The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him, as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many, he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was an optimist. He stood in…
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Estée Lauder
The company she started in 1946 is today worth more than $30 billion. Her story? It's one of obsession and persistence, and one I thoroughly enjoyed reading about. This is the story of Estée Lauder, and we have a lot to learn from her. Source for this episode: Estēe: A Success Story by Estēe…
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Steve Jobs
In 1968, a thirteen-year-old kid in Cupertino was building a frequency counter and needed parts. So he opened the phone book, found the home number of Bill Hewlett, the founder of Hewlett-Packard, and called him. Hewlett talked with him for 20 minutes, got him the parts, and gave him a summer…
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Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull Founder)
At 38, Dietrich Mateschitz was a burned-out toothpaste salesman staring at the same gray airplanes, gray suits, and gray hotel bars, wondering if the next decade would look like the last one. Then he found a strange Thai energy drink, bet everything on it, and built Red Bull into an empire that...
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The Wright Brothers
They were two bicycle mechanics from Ohio with no formal engineering training and no funding who set out to solve a problem that had stumped the best minds in the world. It took them four years of learning, experimenting, and overcoming numerous challenges, but they accomplished what many people...
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S.I. Newhouse Sr. (The Secretive Media Billionaire)
He dropped out of school at 13 to support his family. His father abandoned them. He worked full time for a decade before buying his first newspaper. By the time he died at 84, he had built the greatest publishing empire in American history. This is the story of S.I. Newhouse Sr., and we have a…
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Trailer: Welcome to Ambition
Ambition is a podcast about history's most ambitious people and the lessons their lives can teach you. Each episode goes deep on one person (or two), built around hours of research into a biography of that subject, covering what they built, how they thought, and the struggles they overcame along...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Ambition is a podcast about the world's most ambitious people from history and today, and the lessons you can take from their lives and use in your own work and life. Each episode is deeply researched, built around the definitive biography of one person (or in some cases, two), with dozens of hours spent reading, synthesizing, and pulling out what actually matters: what they built, how they thought, the struggles they overcame, and the tactics, strategies, and principles underneath it all.
HOSTED BY
Justin Gordon
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Ambition is a podcast about the world's most ambitious people from history and today, and the lessons you can take from their lives and use in your own work and life. Each episode is deeply researched, built around the definitive biography of one person (or in some cases, two), with dozens of hours...
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Ambition is created and hosted by Justin Gordon.
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