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Cameron

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

And they try to take like an idea and like, instead of building it slowly and making it durable, right? They're like, let's just throw a lot of money and people at it and like try to do it fast. And then you see them, like it may grow for a little bit and pop. And I think there's an issue.

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

And so what I realized is like the greatest entrepreneurs is like, no one writes a book about somebody who's like, oh, they ran a company and five years in, it was really successful. 10 years, it was great.

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

And so what I realized is like the greatest entrepreneurs is like, no one writes a book about somebody who's like, oh, they ran a company and five years in, it was really successful. 10 years, it was great.

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

And so what I realized is like the greatest entrepreneurs is like, no one writes a book about somebody who's like, oh, they ran a company and five years in, it was really successful. 10 years, it was great.

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

gone right they write about businesses that last and so um i had one of the greatest experiences of my life this year and um i was at this company off site and it was a 70 year old female billionaire owning a private company right and like just her company building philosophy like i told her i was like i'm in love with you and my wife was with me and i was like like i literally love you like i love every way you build your company and her whole thing is just very common sense she's just like

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

gone right they write about businesses that last and so um i had one of the greatest experiences of my life this year and um i was at this company off site and it was a 70 year old female billionaire owning a private company right and like just her company building philosophy like i told her i was like i'm in love with you and my wife was with me and i was like like i literally love you like i love every way you build your company and her whole thing is just very common sense she's just like

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

gone right they write about businesses that last and so um i had one of the greatest experiences of my life this year and um i was at this company off site and it was a 70 year old female billionaire owning a private company right and like just her company building philosophy like i told her i was like i'm in love with you and my wife was with me and i was like like i literally love you like i love every way you build your company and her whole thing is just very common sense she's just like

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

Handful of principles. I'm always just going to do what's best for the customer and the customer experience. And that's where I'm going to put my money. And I'm in this forever. And so she told me this hilarious story where, you know, she felt because she wasn't trained in business and she was a woman, like, I need consultants.

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

Handful of principles. I'm always just going to do what's best for the customer and the customer experience. And that's where I'm going to put my money. And I'm in this forever. And so she told me this hilarious story where, you know, she felt because she wasn't trained in business and she was a woman, like, I need consultants.

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

Handful of principles. I'm always just going to do what's best for the customer and the customer experience. And that's where I'm going to put my money. And I'm in this forever. And so she told me this hilarious story where, you know, she felt because she wasn't trained in business and she was a woman, like, I need consultants.

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

I need McKinsey and I need Bain and I need hiring, spending millions of dollars on this. And first of all, they're like, you know, you should buy up all your competitors. And so they start looking into this and it's like, well, how much would that be? And, you know, whatever, let's say that company's going to cost $200 million to buy.

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

I need McKinsey and I need Bain and I need hiring, spending millions of dollars on this. And first of all, they're like, you know, you should buy up all your competitors. And so they start looking into this and it's like, well, how much would that be? And, you know, whatever, let's say that company's going to cost $200 million to buy.

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

I need McKinsey and I need Bain and I need hiring, spending millions of dollars on this. And first of all, they're like, you know, you should buy up all your competitors. And so they start looking into this and it's like, well, how much would that be? And, you know, whatever, let's say that company's going to cost $200 million to buy.

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

And she's like, but why don't I just put that $200 million into like making my customer experience better? And so she told me this hilarious story. She's like, year five, you know, I had 15 competitors. Year 15? I have 10. Year 25, I had three. Year four, she's running a company for 40. Year 40, I have one. He goes, I took the money.

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

And she's like, but why don't I just put that $200 million into like making my customer experience better? And so she told me this hilarious story. She's like, year five, you know, I had 15 competitors. Year 15? I have 10. Year 25, I had three. Year four, she's running a company for 40. Year 40, I have one. He goes, I took the money.

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

And she's like, but why don't I just put that $200 million into like making my customer experience better? And so she told me this hilarious story. She's like, year five, you know, I had 15 competitors. Year 15? I have 10. Year 25, I had three. Year four, she's running a company for 40. Year 40, I have one. He goes, I took the money.

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

Instead of buying other companies, I made my customer experience better, my product better, my marketing better, controlled more things. And they went out of business slowly but surely. And so time carries most of the weight. That's a maximum that I came up with where I was listening to Charlie Munger. Charlie Munger has this good, his whole point is like, hey, there's,

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

Instead of buying other companies, I made my customer experience better, my product better, my marketing better, controlled more things. And they went out of business slowly but surely. And so time carries most of the weight. That's a maximum that I came up with where I was listening to Charlie Munger. Charlie Munger has this good, his whole point is like, hey, there's,

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

Instead of buying other companies, I made my customer experience better, my product better, my marketing better, controlled more things. And they went out of business slowly but surely. And so time carries most of the weight. That's a maximum that I came up with where I was listening to Charlie Munger. Charlie Munger has this good, his whole point is like, hey, there's,

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

If you just master the big ideas and handful of disciplines and you really master them and implement them that like the big ideas in like, you know, physics, biology, psychology, economics, there's only a handful of ideas you actually need to memorize in all these main subjects. And that carries most of the freight. And it's like, oh, that's a good turn of phrase like that. That makes sense.