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Founders

173 Cards across 9 Sources·Added to Korva by @michael, @bentorren, @mayaellery and others

Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly21 Cards

The Empire State Building was started in 1929 and finished in 1931, during the Great Depression.

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Ask yourself: What valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret.

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How Elon Thinks21 Cards

Some half-hour meetings improved a company’s financial outcome by $100 million.

People assumed batteries would cost $600 per kilowatt-hour, while their materials could cost roughly $80.

#431 How Henry Singleton Worked20 Cards

David Senra on Founders

Teledyne had fewer than 50 headquarters employees among more than 40,000, with no human-resources or investor-relations departments.

David Senra on Founders

From 1972 to 1984, Teledyne repurchased 90% of its outstanding shares through eight tender offers.

Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media20 Cards

Twenty-three years after a hotel expelled Pulitzer as a homeless man, he bought that hotel.

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Severely disabled, Pulitzer ran his newspaper remotely through hundreds or thousands of telegrams each week.

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#429 Bob Dylan's Autobiography19 Cards

Bob Dylan became distinctive through extreme imitation first, then refusing to see himself as like anyone else.

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A Harley ride across the Mississippi River, solitude, and sensory withdrawal turned Bob Dylan’s blockage into a breakthrough.

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#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan19 Cards

Only 20 of Dunkirk’s more than 600 crew members could read its individually watermarked script.

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Inception took 23 years, incorporating Nolan’s adolescence, university, Hollywood career, later success, and fatherhood.

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How Claude Shannon Invented The Future18 Cards

John von Neumann was guarded around the clock on his deathbed so officials could protect sensitive information.

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Encircle your problem with existing answers to similar questions. Small conceptual jumps are easier than one large leap.

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The Merchant Bankers18 Cards

A merchant banker arranged £200,000 in Amsterdam within three minutes without paperwork, preventing at least £20,000 in weekend losses.

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Warren Buffett wired money for a deal without even an email.

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How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps17 Cards

A $200,000 oil investment produced a $160,000 deduction and roughly $144,000 in tax savings at rates above 90%.

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Apache Corporation turned a $250,000 investment in 1954 into $50 billion by mid-2008.

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