All Episodes

#258: Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)

#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)

#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)

#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)

#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

#253 Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)

#252 Socrates

#251 Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership

#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)

Steve Jobs's Heroes

#249 Steve Jobs In His Own Words

#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan)

#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)

#246 Mark Leonard's Shareholder Letters

#245 Rick Rubin (In the Studio)

#244 Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)

#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)

#242 Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life

#241 The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

#240 Mozart: A Life

Steve Jobs and His Heroes

#239 The Wright Brothers

#238 Jay Z: Decoded

#237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon)

#236 Nims Purja (Mountain Climber)

#235 Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story)

#234 Sam Walton: Made In America

#233 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)

#232 Alexander the Great

#231 William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts)

#230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star)

#229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)

#228 Michael Bloomberg

I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10!

#227 The Essays of Warren Buffett

#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle

#225 Winston Churchill

#224 Charles de Gaulle

#223 Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend

#222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint)

#221 Charlie Munger

#220 Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine

#219 Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography

#218 Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football)

#217 Estée Lauder

#216 Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans)

#215: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius)

#214 Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within

#212 Michael Jordan: The Life

#211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life

#210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

#209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography

#208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett

#207 Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising)

#206 Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)

#205 James Dyson (Invention: A Life)

#204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain)

#203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)

#202 A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett

#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)

#200 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

#199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

#198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)

#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty

#196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)

#195 Sid Meier (Computer game designer)

#194 Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)

#193 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold's first autobiography)

#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)

#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)

#190 Henry Ford and Thomas Edison

#189 David Ogilvy (The book I've given as a gift the most)

#188 Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes)

#187 Albert Einstein

#186 Phil Knight (Nike)

#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)

#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)

#183 Johnny Carson

#182 Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist)

#181 Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)

#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)

Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)

#179 Jeff Bezos

#178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

#177 Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)

#176 Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)

#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)

#173 Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)

#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)

#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)

#170 Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)

#169 David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)

#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)

#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation)

#166 Robert Noyce (Intel)

#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)

#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)

#163 Alfred Nobel