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Cameron

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

I love that you say Z. Every time I hear it on your podcast, I just... So this is literally a line that was... This guy named Sam Zemuri, okay? So I go out, this is... our friend George Mack, right? Who we both love. He's the one that really has put into my brain the importance of being high agents. You know, he's really good. Just breaking everything about yourself. Keep going.

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

I love that you say Z. Every time I hear it on your podcast, I just... So this is literally a line that was... This guy named Sam Zemuri, okay? So I go out, this is... our friend George Mack, right? Who we both love. He's the one that really has put into my brain the importance of being high agents. You know, he's really good. Just breaking everything about yourself. Keep going.

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

I love that you say Z. Every time I hear it on your podcast, I just... So this is literally a line that was... This guy named Sam Zemuri, okay? So I go out, this is... our friend George Mack, right? Who we both love. He's the one that really has put into my brain the importance of being high agents. You know, he's really good. Just breaking everything about yourself. Keep going.

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

It's all your big muscles. That's true. So, So George Mack is the one that put the importance of being high agency in my, like, I think his writing on it, his memes, the stuff he makes is just perfect. And I would say every single person I read a biography about is high agency. The most high agency person I've ever come across is that guy named Sam Samari. So what's funny is,

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

It's all your big muscles. That's true. So, So George Mack is the one that put the importance of being high agency in my, like, I think his writing on it, his memes, the stuff he makes is just perfect. And I would say every single person I read a biography about is high agency. The most high agency person I've ever come across is that guy named Sam Samari. So what's funny is,

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

It's all your big muscles. That's true. So, So George Mack is the one that put the importance of being high agency in my, like, I think his writing on it, his memes, the stuff he makes is just perfect. And I would say every single person I read a biography about is high agency. The most high agency person I've ever come across is that guy named Sam Samari. So what's funny is,

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

is there's another line in zero to one that I think people mistake too, where they say all technology is, is a better way to do something. So people think technology has got to be like software. It's got to be computers. It's like, no, at one point, a steamboat, the invention of the steamboat engine was a technology of that day because it made, it made it possible, a better way to do something.

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

is there's another line in zero to one that I think people mistake too, where they say all technology is, is a better way to do something. So people think technology has got to be like software. It's got to be computers. It's like, no, at one point, a steamboat, the invention of the steamboat engine was a technology of that day because it made, it made it possible, a better way to do something.

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

is there's another line in zero to one that I think people mistake too, where they say all technology is, is a better way to do something. So people think technology has got to be like software. It's got to be computers. It's like, no, at one point, a steamboat, the invention of the steamboat engine was a technology of that day because it made, it made it possible, a better way to do something.

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

And what did that do? So one of the first, this will surprise a lot of people. One of the first multinational corporations to, In human history, we're the fruit companies. Because before, you had a banana, you grew it in Jamaica, or you grew it in Honduras. That banana, you have to eat in like four days. So without the, or five days, or a week, whatever it is.

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

And what did that do? So one of the first, this will surprise a lot of people. One of the first multinational corporations to, In human history, we're the fruit companies. Because before, you had a banana, you grew it in Jamaica, or you grew it in Honduras. That banana, you have to eat in like four days. So without the, or five days, or a week, whatever it is.

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

And what did that do? So one of the first, this will surprise a lot of people. One of the first multinational corporations to, In human history, we're the fruit companies. Because before, you had a banana, you grew it in Jamaica, or you grew it in Honduras. That banana, you have to eat in like four days. So without the, or five days, or a week, whatever it is.

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

Without the invention of the steamboat, you have a local market. So you match fruit, which humans have, are going to eat forever, with the steamboat, and you create one of the first multinational corporations. So Sam Zimuri, right, is this guy. He is a poor Russian immigrant, right? right? Comes to America, shows up in like Alabama and builds this gigantic fruit empire.

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

Without the invention of the steamboat, you have a local market. So you match fruit, which humans have, are going to eat forever, with the steamboat, and you create one of the first multinational corporations. So Sam Zimuri, right, is this guy. He is a poor Russian immigrant, right? right? Comes to America, shows up in like Alabama and builds this gigantic fruit empire.

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

Without the invention of the steamboat, you have a local market. So you match fruit, which humans have, are going to eat forever, with the steamboat, and you create one of the first multinational corporations. So Sam Zimuri, right, is this guy. He is a poor Russian immigrant, right? right? Comes to America, shows up in like Alabama and builds this gigantic fruit empire.

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

And the book, the reason the book is called The Fish That Ate the Whale is because the biggest fruit company at the time is called United Fruit. And Sam Zamori competes head to head with them. And then eventually he takes over, the little fish eats the whale. He takes over that company. So the reason that he says that is because his competition, when the founders die,

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

And the book, the reason the book is called The Fish That Ate the Whale is because the biggest fruit company at the time is called United Fruit. And Sam Zamori competes head to head with them. And then eventually he takes over, the little fish eats the whale. He takes over that company. So the reason that he says that is because his competition, when the founders die,

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

And the book, the reason the book is called The Fish That Ate the Whale is because the biggest fruit company at the time is called United Fruit. And Sam Zamori competes head to head with them. And then eventually he takes over, the little fish eats the whale. He takes over that company. So the reason that he says that is because his competition, when the founders die,

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

The people running United Fruit, their business is in Central America. That's where all the fruit is grown. And then it's shipped into like the Gulf Coast and Florida and then put on trains and put everywhere else. They thought they were going to run their business remotely in Boston. And this guy's out here. He's literally hacking machetes. He's helping lay the railroad track.

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

The people running United Fruit, their business is in Central America. That's where all the fruit is grown. And then it's shipped into like the Gulf Coast and Florida and then put on trains and put everywhere else. They thought they were going to run their business remotely in Boston. And this guy's out here. He's literally hacking machetes. He's helping lay the railroad track.