Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-11-07
Books mentioned on The Dark Side Of The Startup World - John Roa - #242
John Roa is an entrepreneur and an author. We often hear about the galactic successes of high growth startups, but what is the price that the founders pay to enable it?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Billion Dollar Loser
Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman is a non-fiction book chronicling the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and the office-rental startup WeWork.
Discussed“i mean you know i i learned with reeves weidman who wrote a billion dollar loser about adam newman and about the wework saga that's going on”
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Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron is a self-improvement and fitness book that explores the mindsets, habits, and rigorous frameworks required to achieve elite performance in athletics and daily life.
Discussed“so here's something that i learned from ben bergeron's chasing excellence which is that when we look back on a lot of the experiences that we have in life especially to do with sort of business and discomfort and stuff like that we don't ever look back and find any glory or really any interest”
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A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying
A Practical Way to Get Rich .
Recommended“so a practical way to get rich and die trining a memoir about risking it all will be linked in the show notes below”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and um the way i found to do that was to write a book about it and so the book that you previously referenced it's called a practical way to get rich and die trying is my memoir and it's everything i just shared in excruciating detail”