Episodes (Page 3)
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Tracy Britt Cool earned the nickname 'fireman' at Berkshire Hathaway for turning around struggling subsidiaries
Tracy Britt Cool
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Hetty Green built a multi-billion dollar fortune in the late 1800s despite legal restrictions on women
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Barry Diller, at 83, shares surprising candor about his successes and failures building IAC
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Ed Stack built Dick's Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an 800+ store empire
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Lulu Cheng Meservey discusses why trust and conviction are contagious in communication and strategy
Lulu Cheng Meservey
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Fred Smith founded FedEx on an idea everyone said would fail and built an $88 billion empire
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Benedict Evans argues AI is the biggest change since the iPhone, not just new electricity
Benedict Evans
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John Bragg controls half the world's wild blueberries and built North America's largest private telecom from a town of 1,100
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Dr. Sue Johnson provides frameworks for lasting relationships that amplify connection and prevent cheating
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Sol Price, the inventor of the warehouse club model, is profiled.
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Ryan Petersen explains Flexport's system-building approach to scaling logistics by turning complex multi-party operations into simple, repeatable processes
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Katharine Graham's transformation of the Washington Post is detailed.
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Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses human irrationality.
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The success of Les Schwab Tire Centers is examined.
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Harley Finkelstein emphasizes requalifying for your role annually to scale your career.
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Jimmy Pattison, 96, still runs his $16B empire built without connections or capital.
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Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi ran a $200 billion empire with surgical precision and uncompromising standards, making a dramatic first-day move (firing then rehiring her general counsel) as a signa...
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Anna Wintour transformed Vogue's editor-in-chief role into an indispensable platform by reinventing power structures, firing half the staff in three days, and weaponizing speed over perfection
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Reed Hastings built Netflix's high-performance culture by treating severance as a management tool, avoiding performance improvement plans, and evaluating talent beyond interviews through judgment a...
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Harvey Firestone transformed from a farm boy into Henry Ford's key partner, building one of America's great industrial empires while navigating booms, busts, and technological disruption