Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Talk about that business and print media.

How have you made this a strong, it feels like an anachronism and yet it's a really strong business.

How did you do that?

So the media becomes the marketing.

Exactly right.

For the product.

Two closing questions for you.

At the end of the book, there's this beautiful line where you got money and fame and all that good stuff.

But your life has mostly been about building and building and building.

And then your family built you into something resembling a person, quite a powerful closing line.

What constituted that?

What did your family do to build you up?

Closing question I ask everybody is the same.

What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you?

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