Anna Wintour

Revenue plus relevance equals irreplaceable.

At 75, Anna controls more than she did at 40.

Not because she's holding on, but because she's built the infrastructure everyone needs.

Here's what most people miss.

Anna didn't achieve power.

She architected it.

The 16-year-old who wrote Editor of Vogue on that form, she got that job in 1988, but that was just the beginning.

She spent the next 40 years building something that couldn't be taken away.

Jobs can be lost, titles can be stripped, but when you become the platform your entire industry runs on, when you control the room where culture gets decided...

When three different multi-billion dollar industries need you to function, that's not a career.

That's architecture.

The fashion world that Anna entered in 1975 is dead.

The magazines, the business model, the culture all transform beyond recognition.

Yet Anna didn't just survive each transformation.

She caused them.

True power isn't controlling what exists today, it's building what controls tomorrow.

And tomorrow, like every tomorrow for 40 years, still belongs to Anna Wintour.

Wow.

I want to talk about some of my reflections from reading and learning about Anna and what a force this woman is.

There's a couple of things that didn't make the episode that I really want to emphasize here, but I also want to point out one of her secrets is