Episode · Founders · 2021-09-29
Books mentioned on #208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett
What I learned from reading In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World by Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Ortiz. ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand.
David Senra discussed In the Company of Giants by Rama Dev Jager and others, Finding the Next Steve Jobs by Nolan Bushnell and others, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh and others, Hard Drive by James Wallace and others, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, and My Years With General Motors by Alfred P Sloan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In the Company of Giants
In the Company of Giants by Rama Dev Jager and Rafael G.
Discussed“That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is in the company of giants, candid conversations with the visionaries of the digital world, and it was written by Rama, Dev, Yeager, and Raphael Ortiz.”
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Finding the Next Steve Jobs
Discussed“But when Nolan picked out and he wrote an entire book about it, which I cover, which is how to find the next Steve Jobs. And when Nolan picked out as well, this guy has a lot of passion.”
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
The Score Takes Care of Itself is a leadership and management book by football coach Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh that focuses on program building through inputs and daily standards rather than fixating on outcomes.
Discussed“Do you remember that book, the autobiography, the score takes care of itself, it's I think founders like 104, 106, something there, but this is the main point of the book is exactly what Steve is talking about here.”
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Hard Drive
Hard Drive by James Wallace and Jim Erickson is a biography detailing the early years of Microsoft and the relentless rise of Bill Gates.
Discussed“I want to get to Bill Gates though, because one of my favorite books I've ever read for the podcast was hard drive Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft Empire, it's like Founders 142 or something like that, but the reason I like that book is because it covers the first 35 years of Bill Gates life and”
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High Output Management
High Output Management by Andrew S.
Discussed“I taught both during my engineering days and during the period of time when intel made the transition into more systematic management. I started teaching management practices at Intel, out of which came my book, High Output Management.”
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My Years With General Motors
My Years With General Motors is the influential autobiography of Alfred P.
Discussed“And so he's like, I found a blueprint, it happened to be Alfred Sloan. This is by far one of the most influential books in American business management ever that was Sloan's autobiography. I did it a long time ago, it's called My Years with General Motors.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“That biography of his is just crazy. If you read, go back and read. I think it's called overnight success, which is obviously the opposite of what Federal Express was.”