Episodes (Page 3)
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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
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Bill Belichick's eight Super Bowl rings reflect invisible factors
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Andy Grove demonstrates radical adaptability by repeatedly reinventing himself from refugee to chemist to engineer to CEO of Intel
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Elad Gil prioritizes market opportunities over founder pedigree when identifying billion-dollar startups, citing track record backing Airbnb, Stripe, and Coinbase
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Rose Blumkin fled Russia with $66, opened a furniture store at 43 with no English or education, and built Nebraska Furniture Mart into a billion-dollar empire
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Y Combinator selects founders based on earnestness rather than impressive résumés or bold pitches, with 1% acceptance rate and alumni behind 60% of past decade's unicorns
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Henry Singleton built Teledyne conglomerate with 20.4% annual returns over three decades, outperforming Buffett while remaining virtually unknown
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Bret Taylor, OpenAI chairman, reveals gap between what AI insiders understand versus public perception about AI's real capabilities and bottlenecks
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Pierre Poilievre outlines Conservative Party roadmap for Canada: cutting red tape to unleash innovation and restore upward mobility
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Cornelius Vanderbilt dominated three industries
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Bruce Flatt reveals Brookfield's disciplined downside-protection philosophy delivering 19% annualized returns over 30 years managing $1 trillion in assets
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James Dyson transformed 5,127 failed prototypes into a multi-billion-dollar vacuum empire through relentless persistence and public failure
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Logan Ury debunks dating myths like chasing sparks and expecting mind-reading.