Episode · Acquired · 2022-08-16
Books mentioned on Amazon.com
Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one.
David Rosenthal discussed Sam Walton, Made in America by Sam Walton and others. Ben Gilbert recommended The Everything Store by Brad Stone, and discussed Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sam Walton, Made in America
Sam Walton, Made in America by Sam Walton and John Huey is the autobiography of the legendary entrepreneur who founded Walmart.
Discussed“but at the end of made in America Sam writes oh in 1992 literally as he lays dying Sam Walton writes at the end of the biography”
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The Everything Store
The Everything Store by Brad Stone is an exhaustive corporate biography that chronicles the meteoric rise of Amazon and the relentless ambition of its founder, Jeff Bezos.
Recommended“well speaking of books we have a big thank you that we owe to Brad Stone and the everything store Brad is just the best we've done episodes with Brad in the past the everything store is the canonical history of the first 20 years of Amazon”
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Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies
Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies by Douglas R.
Discussed“Shell's friend John way wght makes the first purchase on April 3rd 1995 a book called fluid Concepts and creative analogies by Douglas hoffstead”
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