Moby Dick, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Moby Dick comes up on Founders, Acquired, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, the Knowledge Project
How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 37:39 David Senra And so he writes, the novelist Herman Melville's work went largely unnoticed after Moby Dick. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 30:03 David Senra I read Moby Dick
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 8:51 David Senra Her father said he's on record and he has, there's a great quote in one of the biographies where he said that making money was the great object of his life and that he pursued his fortune the way that Captain Ahab pursued Moby Dick.
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:35 John Bathgate But also, if you plot, like, the, the frequency of every word in the book Moby Dick, um, that actually also forms a power law.
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:52 Robin Sloan So, um, you've been able to kind of do that on the command line for a while, and there's, you know, people have written blog posts about like, oh, look, I wrote some Moby Dick, or here's some weird fake Shakespeare.
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 10:16 Naval Ravikant Uh, I was recently trying to reread Moby Dick and Hamlet just to try and get back into fiction, but I didn't make it through either one.