#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've read hundreds of thousands of words about Enzo Ferrari. For this episode I distilled down his m...
#395 How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Those on the margins often come to control the center. That maxim ties together the three remarkable...
#394 An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your dad dies before you’re born. Your mom can’t afford to take care of you. You grow up without...
#393 The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your family asks you to take over a failing factory in a remote part of France. This “family busin...
#392 Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You take over the family pastry shop and transform it into one of the most valuable privately held b...
#391 Jimmy Iovine
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You grow up in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn. You drop out of college. Your dad is your best frie...
#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've read this interview probably 10 times. It's that good. Steve Jobs was 29 when this interview wa...
#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautione...
#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(I fixed the audio and uploaded a new episode!) "To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to ...
A conversation on focus and finding your life's work
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick ha...
#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start...
#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth...
#385 Michael Dell
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his c...
#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who i...
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biogra...
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's max...
#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the core of Michael Ovitz's success is his relentless work ethic and commitment to mastering his ...
#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz. 1: Mediocrity is a...
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For over 30 years the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meetings were recorded. Munger and Buffett answered ...
#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Jones rolled the dice until his knuckles bled. He started working at 7 years old. Jerry could ...
#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great ...
#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Wallenberg Jr's impact on Swedish industry was so substantial that during the 1970s, Wallenbe...
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim. ...
#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets a...
The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the ...
#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Bezos on retirement being lame, AI, the electricity metaphor for AI, the good fortune of being ...
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Jacobs is one of the most talented living entrepreneurs. Brad has started 8 different billion d...
#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amancio Ortega is one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ortega is the founder of Inditex, a pio...
#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading James J. Hill: Empire Builder by Michael P. Malone. ---- Ramp gives ...
#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull ...
#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX b...
Steve Jobs and Edwin Land
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos. ---- Ramp giv...
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller. ---- ...
#367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks: Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire M...
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading How To Succeed in Mr. Beast Production and how ideas from Sam Zell, Char...
#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The best investors are not investors at all. They're entrepreneurs who have never sold. — Nick Sle...
#364 Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria built their radically unconventional investment partnership. From th...
#363 Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I sent a friend this text: I'm working on another Li Lu episode but this one is about his remarkable...
#362 Li Lu
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Munger said that Li Lu was the only outsider he ever trusted with his money. Decades befor...
#361 Estée Lauder
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said it was a crime that more business schools didn't study Henry ...
#360 Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since its founding in 1967 Fastenal has grown from a small fastener store in Winona, Minnesota, into...
#359 The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally ...
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from having dinner with John Mackey and reading his autobiography The Whole Story: Ad...
#357 Haruki Murakami
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami...
#356 How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley by To...
#355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The House of Arnault by Brad Stone and Angelina Rascouet. ---- Founder...
#354 Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by Vance Trimble. ...
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty. ---- Build relationships with other f...
#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty by J. Paul Getty. ----...
#351 The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading about Hans Wilsdorf and the founding of Rolex. ---- Build relationships ...
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Fron...
#349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall...
Michael Jordan In His Own Words
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Driven From Within by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil. ---- Relationshi...
#348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of W...
#347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That ...
#346 How Walt Disney Built Himself
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler. ...
#345 George Lucas
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones. ---- Get access to the World’...
Steven Spielberg
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride. ---- Get access to th...
#344 Quentin Tarantino
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino. ---- Get access to the World’...
#343 The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: Being Very Good Is No Good,You Have to B...
#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant. ---- Get access to th...
#341 Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon's War)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow ...
#340 Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover and Winning:...
Jay Z's Autobiography
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Decoded by Jay Z. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Noteb...
#339 Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Days of Duveen by S.N. Behrman. ---- Get access to the World’s M...
#338 Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money by Sally Helgesen. ---- G...
#337 Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Roots of Strategy by Thomas R. Phillips and Napoleon and Modern War by N...
#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Insull: The Rise and Fall of A Billionaire Utility Tycoon by Forrest McD...
#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs. ---- Get access to t...
#334 Oprah
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading the transcripts of Young Oprah on Her Life and Career and Oprah on Caree...
#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Red Bull Story by Wolfgang Fürweger and Red Bull's Billionaire Mani...
#332 Jesus
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson. ---- Get access to...
#331 Christian Dior
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior and Creators by Paul J...
#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Les Schwab Pride In Performance: Keep It Going! by Les Schwab. ---- ...
#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger. ...
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger. Order the new updated version of Poor Charlie’s Al...
#328 Tom Murphy (Buffett's favorite manager)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Bl...
#327 Ted Turner
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Ted Turner's Autobiography. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuab...
#326 Anna Wintour
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell. ---- 1. If you need tax prep and boo...
#325 Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading How Larry Gagosian Reshaped The Art World by Patrick Radden Keefe. ---...
#324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son by John D. Rockefeller. ...
Mike Bloomberg
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg. ---- Founders Notes gives you the supe...
#323 Jimmy Buffett
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way by Ryan White and A Pirate Looks ...
#322 Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Succes...
#321 Working with Jeff Bezos
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by ...
#320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden. ---- ...
Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana Ki...
#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Win...
The best interview I've ever done about Founders
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from the first 6 years of making Founders. I recorded a new episode with Patrick. It ...
#318 Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pa...
#317 Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from rereading Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way o...
#316 Bugatti
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Bugatti Story by L’Ebe Bugatti. --- Join my free email newsletter ...
#315 Balenciaga
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson. ...
#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham. --- Join my free email newsletter t...
#313 Christopher Nolan
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher ...
#312 Mark Twain
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Becam...
#311 James Cameron
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan and ...
#310 Walt Disney and Picasso
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson. ...
Michael Jordan (The Life)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby. --- (5:07) His competence wa...
#309 Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What I learned from reading Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak by Barbara Outland Bake...