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FoundersMay 12, 2019
#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
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"To read Bezos’ shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written." ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- “I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast
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“The speaker mentions reading 'The Dow of Capital' while also reading shareholder letters, indicating it was covered in a previous podcast.”
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Do Things That Don't Scale
Paul Graham
“There's this real famous essay that I recommend everybody reading. I would read it. It's by Paul Graham. It's called do things that don't scale.”
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“He talks about a paper written in 1976 called The Structure of Unstructured Decision Processes, which examines how institutions make strategic unstructured decisions.”
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“Elon Musk referenced the life of Benjamin Franklin as part of his historical context for learning about starting a company.”
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“The speaker mentions reading The Dao of Capital, which is a book that synthesizes ideas over a long period.”
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