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How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan Jul 25, 2026 · 1 mention

Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man Jan 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:33 David Senra He had his place in Chicago, his compound in Malibu, that's the word he used, by the way, and his plane.

The Billionaire Who Automates Everything: Thomas Peterffy Oct 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:17 David Senra By the end of the decade, Petrify's market-making network stretched from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, then overseas to Frankfurt, London, and Hong Kong.

How Elon Works Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:10 David Senra I'm going to pick you up in Chicago and we're going to sort this out in England.

The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons May 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities Apr 22, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 4:10 David Senra It was started in 1990 in Chicago by former hedge fund manager Frank Meyer when he discovered this young quantitative investment prodigy Ken Griffin, who was then trading options and convertible bonds from his Harvard dorm room.
  • ▶ 10:51 David Senra I joined a firm in Chicago that gave me capital to manage. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:04 David Senra I moved to Chicago and I did that because the two partners that backed me, I, they, they had an interest in me.
  • ▶ 56:43 David Senra When the guy that backed me out of college retired from Chicago, he said I could have whatever I wanted from his office.
  • ▶ 1:00:35 David Senra We built a risk wall in Chicago at the headquarters of Citadel.

400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words Mar 8, 2025 · 1 mention

The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green Jan 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 31:15 David Senra So she's going to wind up owning dozens of buildings in block after block in New York, Chicago, St.
  • ▶ 39:37 David Senra As Ned left for Chicago, his mother gave him a package of papers, telling him to guard them on the train at all costs, figuring that he was transporting some vast sum in negotiable bonds or other securities. 2 times in the scene

James J. Hill: The Empire Builder Nov 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:11 David Senra It is entirely appropriate that the passenger train from Chicago to Seattle is called the empire builder in his memory for his hand reached every aspect of building the regional economy and social order from transportation to agriculture,…

Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell Oct 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

Mr Beast's Leaked Memo Oct 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:41 David Senra In Sam Zell's autobiography, he talks about one of the most important relationships that he ever made, uh, was with this extremely famous and wealthy family that's, uh, in Chicago.

The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton Jul 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:35 David Senra He's going to go to the, to the headquarters of Ben Franklin in Chicago, and he's going to pitch this idea to them. 2 times in the scene

How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty Jul 10, 2024 · 1 mention

The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger May 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:16 David Senra Obviously he sold a company, you know, for thirty billion dollars, but he was talking about some of the best investments he ever made, became because he was writing op-eds in, he was a, well before he was a national and world renowned… 2 times in the scene

Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant Apr 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:15 David Senra And you see this even after they win the sixth and final championship in Chicago, uh, they're having this big celebration.
  • ▶ 1:05:22 David Senra They would have in Chicago, they, during the summer, they'd run these pickup games at Tim's gym, right?

Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy Apr 24, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:26 David Senra He thought he could sell electric electrical service to every single citizen in Chicago member on that episode, how crazy this is. 3 times in the scene

How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull Apr 23, 2024 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:01 David Senra Do you remember Sam Insull, the billionaire utility tycoon from Chicago?
  • ▶ 39:19 David Senra But at the very beginning of the book, it mentions, hey, it's that billionaire utility tycoon from Chicago. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:46 David Senra And so he comes to Chicago. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:19 David Senra They're like, okay, how many possible customers can you have in a city of Chicago? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:46 David Senra Uh, the magazine free of charge by the tens of thousands all over Chicago.
  • ▶ 1:04:37 David Senra He undertook a huge new venture, uh, of a construction on a natural, uh, gas pipeline that he was running from Texas to Chicago. 3 times in the scene

Oprah In Her Own Words Apr 21, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 David Senra She was already Chicago's most popular TV talk show personality, and the local ABC affiliate that produced her show was paying her 230,000 dollars a year. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:50 David Senra When I was in Chicago, I was working in talk for talk, uh, like a talk show for several years. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:49 David Senra And then in Chicago, remember this is 2 times in the scene

The Biography of Jimmy Buffett Apr 10, 2024 · 1 mention

Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines Apr 9, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 34:28 David Senra They'd just flown into Chicago from Texas and turned on the televisions in their hotel rooms just in time to hear Midway Airlines announce that it was out of cash and closing its doors, confirming the rumors that had brought them to… 5 times in the scene

The Biography of Christopher Nolan Mar 31, 2024 · 1 mention

Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder) Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell Mar 11, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:34 David Senra And so his whole point is just like, you know, he, he has a place in Chicago and he had a place in Malibu.
  • ▶ 26:27 David Senra And this, for me, meant a constant flow of telephone calls and trips, often by company plane, to Montreal, Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Denver, and points west.
  • ▶ 1:01:46 David Senra And when we had lunch, he was talking about the fact that he was invited into certain deals because of how well known he was in Chicago and like the, in the 19 eighties, which was a fascinating story. 2 times in the scene

The Making of McDonald's: The Biography of Ray Kroc Feb 25, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25 David Senra When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase.
  • ▶ 8:54 David Senra He's selling it in Chicago in the winter. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:23 David Senra And so when he gets back to Chicago, he does something smart. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:45 David Senra And then take the train to Chicago and be in my office before nine o'clock.
  • ▶ 44:06 David Senra And so eventually he moves out from Chicago to California. 2 times in the scene

How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune Feb 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:48 David Senra Gold and Fisk made a profit by buying cows in Chicago and shipping them to market at Vanderbilt's bargain rates.

Sam Zell's Autobiography Oct 19, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 David Senra In this book, I share the story of how a restless, curious boy who grew up in Chicago made it to the Forbes 400.
  • ▶ 18:17 David Senra In Chicago, but he's growing up. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:13 David Senra And there's this extremely famous and wealthy family in Chicago that still exists to this day, but I think goes back multiple generations. 2 times in the scene
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