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Cameron

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Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

We're going to scrounge up enough money and we have 30 days. We don't have six months. I think it might be six weeks. Um, We don't have six months. We have six weeks. We have to launch this rocket. And his whole thing, he ends that speech after the failure of the third rocket. He's like, come hell or high water, we're going to make this work.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And I just think another thing that history skills entrepreneurs have in common, and I think me and you probably agree with this too, I definitely do, is like the power of will and the power of one dynamic individual to change the course of history.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And I just think another thing that history skills entrepreneurs have in common, and I think me and you probably agree with this too, I definitely do, is like the power of will and the power of one dynamic individual to change the course of history.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And I just think another thing that history skills entrepreneurs have in common, and I think me and you probably agree with this too, I definitely do, is like the power of will and the power of one dynamic individual to change the course of history.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I feel that belief comes before ability is another repeated lesson. It's obvious if you read biographies of people that do great things. And for Elon, I think he believes that he has strength and power of will and that he can literally bend and change the world.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I feel that belief comes before ability is another repeated lesson. It's obvious if you read biographies of people that do great things. And for Elon, I think he believes that he has strength and power of will and that he can literally bend and change the world.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I feel that belief comes before ability is another repeated lesson. It's obvious if you read biographies of people that do great things. And for Elon, I think he believes that he has strength and power of will and that he can literally bend and change the world.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

That line. So the closest historical equivalent to Elon, and this is still a bit of a stretch, you have to bear with me. There's a guy named Henry Kaiser. Henry Kaiser founded over 100 different companies. He built the Hoover Dam. In his day, around World War II, he was almost as famous in his day as Elon was today. I think now Elon's on a different level. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

That line. So the closest historical equivalent to Elon, and this is still a bit of a stretch, you have to bear with me. There's a guy named Henry Kaiser. Henry Kaiser founded over 100 different companies. He built the Hoover Dam. In his day, around World War II, he was almost as famous in his day as Elon was today. I think now Elon's on a different level. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

That line. So the closest historical equivalent to Elon, and this is still a bit of a stretch, you have to bear with me. There's a guy named Henry Kaiser. Henry Kaiser founded over 100 different companies. He built the Hoover Dam. In his day, around World War II, he was almost as famous in his day as Elon was today. I think now Elon's on a different level. Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

you know, multiple billion dollar companies. He built ships and he just like helped the allies win World War II. But that's his line where he was just like Elon, just default optimistic. Like every day, like I'm going to, I know I wake up every day. There's going to be problems. That's fine. That's what I want because problems, that's his line. Problems are just opportunities and workflows.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

you know, multiple billion dollar companies. He built ships and he just like helped the allies win World War II. But that's his line where he was just like Elon, just default optimistic. Like every day, like I'm going to, I know I wake up every day. There's going to be problems. That's fine. That's what I want because problems, that's his line. Problems are just opportunities and workflows.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

you know, multiple billion dollar companies. He built ships and he just like helped the allies win World War II. But that's his line where he was just like Elon, just default optimistic. Like every day, like I'm going to, I know I wake up every day. There's going to be problems. That's fine. That's what I want because problems, that's his line. Problems are just opportunities and workflows.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So when his like employees would, you know, bitch and complain about, oh my God, this, this thing failed or this order fell through, or we can't find a guy for this. It's like, good problems. There's opportunities to work close. So you, the default state, I think for humans, it's like to complain, oh, woe is me. Here's another problem. Entrepreneurs, what they realize is like, oh,

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So when his like employees would, you know, bitch and complain about, oh my God, this, this thing failed or this order fell through, or we can't find a guy for this. It's like, good problems. There's opportunities to work close. So you, the default state, I think for humans, it's like to complain, oh, woe is me. Here's another problem. Entrepreneurs, what they realize is like, oh,

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So when his like employees would, you know, bitch and complain about, oh my God, this, this thing failed or this order fell through, or we can't find a guy for this. It's like, good problems. There's opportunities to work close. So you, the default state, I think for humans, it's like to complain, oh, woe is me. Here's another problem. Entrepreneurs, what they realize is like, oh,

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

The problem are actually, if I can solve that problem, any problem you solve for a person could be a business. And so the second line where it says like, you know, business is problems, that's something that's repeated over and over again. But then when you think about it, that second line is something I came up with where it's like, oh, well, business is problems.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

The problem are actually, if I can solve that problem, any problem you solve for a person could be a business. And so the second line where it says like, you know, business is problems, that's something that's repeated over and over again. But then when you think about it, that second line is something I came up with where it's like, oh, well, business is problems.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

The problem are actually, if I can solve that problem, any problem you solve for a person could be a business. And so the second line where it says like, you know, business is problems, that's something that's repeated over and over again. But then when you think about it, that second line is something I came up with where it's like, oh, well, business is problems.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

That means the most successful companies are just effective problem solving machines because the perpetuation of their existence is the fact that you know that they're solving problems for other people and they're doing so effectively. So if you want to build wealth and you want to be a successful company, it's like find a problem and then solve it better than anybody else.