Founders podcast
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Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025. The firm was founded by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
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My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
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#365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
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#210 Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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#88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them!
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#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
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#65 Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
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Link in episode "#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz": https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-19/red-bulls-billionaire-maniac
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description:link #427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company
Link in episode "#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company": https://davidsenra.substack.com/
description:link #426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
Link in episode "#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan": https://davidsenra.substack.com/
description:link #333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Matesch
Link in episode "#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz": https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-19/red-bulls-billionaire-maniac
title:guest My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
title:guest A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
description:link #427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company
Link in episode "#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company": https://davidsenra.substack.com/
description:link #426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
Link in episode "#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan": https://davidsenra.substack.com/
description:link #333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Matesch
Link in episode "#333 Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz": https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-05-19/red-bulls-billionaire-maniac
title:guest My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
title:guest A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
title:guest #373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion
#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
description:book-authored #408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
wrote the book How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
title:guest #358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
title:guest Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger
Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger