All Episodes

Michael Jordan In His Own Words

#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger

#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland

#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself

#345 George Lucas

Steven Spielberg

#344 Quentin Tarantino

#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy

#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)

#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

Jay Z's Autobiography

#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer

#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire

#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy

#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull

#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

#334 Oprah

#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz

#332 Jesus

#331 Christian Dior

#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger

#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)

#327 Ted Turner

#326 Anna Wintour

#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)

#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)

Mike Bloomberg

#323 Jimmy Buffett

#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)

#321 Working with Jeff Bezos

#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2

Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)

#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

The best interview I've ever done about Founders

#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)

#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)

#316 Bugatti

#315 Balenciaga

#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)

#313 Christopher Nolan

#312 Mark Twain

#311 James Cameron

#310 Walt Disney and Picasso

Michael Jordan (The Life)

#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)

#308 The Founder of Glock

#307: The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada

#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession

#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)

#303 Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)

#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

#301 Tiger Woods

#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)

#298 I had lunch with Sam Zell

#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)

A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast

#296 Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)

#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger

#294 Napoleon

#293: Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald's)

#292 Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)

#291 David Packard (Founder of HP)

#290 Bill Gates

#289 Brunello Cucinelli

#288 Ralph Lauren

#287 The Founder of Rolls-Royce

#286 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

#285 Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune)

#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick

#283 Andrew Carnegie

#282 Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters

#281 Working with Steve Jobs

The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea

#280 Jimi Hendrix

#279 What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett

#278 Peter Thiel

#277 Paul Graham's Essays Part 3

#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2

#275 Paul Graham

#274 Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)

#273 Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)

#272 Kobe Bryant (The Life)

#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)

#270: Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)

#269 Sam Zell

#268 John Malone (Cable Cowboy)

#267 Thomas Edison

#266 Henry Ford's Autobiography

#265 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

#264 The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid

#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It

#262 Herbie Cohen (World's Greatest Negotiator)

#261 Dee Hock's Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two

#260 One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

#259 Bob Dylan