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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:47 David Senra A few weeks ago, I was very lucky to have a two-hour one-on-one lunch with Sam Zell that I didn't think was possible.
- ▶ 11:53 David Senra What I realized in that conversation is like, you don't make, you don't, Sam Zell sold his company for almost forty billion dollars, right?
- ▶ 12:32 David Senra Sam did this when he was younger, but this ties together where, um, Bill Gurley had a fantastic quote about this, a tweet about this when all that crypto was going crazy and like the run up and people are getting rich.
- ▶ 2:54:08 David Senra When I sat down, the first thing me and Sam Zell talked about, and I think helped bond us, to the point where at the end he said he liked my energy and everything, but, uh, so hopefully he liked me, I don't know, um, was in his story, I…
- ▶ 2:54:25 David Senra And one of the first things me and Sam talked about after I said, you're fucking Sam Zell.
- ▶ 2:54:29 David Senra I'm kind of freaking out about that, uh, was Sam, I, I understand and empathize with your story because Sam's story is his dad being Jewish, getting the last train out of Poland before the Nazis bomb it.
- ▶ 2:54:54 David Senra Sam, Sam's dad and his mom have a daughter.
- ▶ 2:55:01 David Senra Sam is born in America.
- ▶ 2:55:04 David Senra And so in that book, Sam's dad's always telling him, you don't understand how lucky you are to be born here, right?