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How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 21:09 David Senra I mean, I think it's what, uh, I know I've been talking about Edwin Land a lot. 3 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 9:45 David Senra And so when I got to this part where he says good answers are as close as we come to looking into the future, there's this great line by Edwin Land. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 David Senra I'm building a new studio for founders right now, and I'm very tempted to just have a giant portrait of Edwin Land sitting behind me. 2 times in the scene
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 41:18 David Senra I think the best comparison is with Edwin Land of Polaroid, who seems to be a similar type of individual.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 41:52 David Senra And I think Edwin Land is a good comparison here. 7 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 9:11 David Senra Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Elon Musk, Edwin Land, Bill Gates, they devour entire shelves.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 11:09 David Senra Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Michael Dell, Edwin Land, they would read every single thing in a library on their subject of interest. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 27:58 David Senra Shout out to Edwin Land.
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 7:35 David Senra His approach to his work, it's going to remind you a lot of like a Steve Jobs, an Edwin Land, a James Dyson, an Yvonne Chouinard.
- ▶ 13:35 David Senra This is Edwin Land. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 15:13 David Senra And you also see with Steve jobs here, Edwin land, go back and listen to the episodes I did on Edwin land, how much money he put into the marketing and advertising and launching new products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 David Senra Talking about one of his favorite troublemakers, Edwin Land, who is the patron saint of Founders Podcast. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:45 David Senra Someday we can capture an Aristotle or an Einstein or an Edwin Land.
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 24:05 David Senra It reminds me of, you know, Edwin Landon, Steve Jobs hero, become a personal hero of mine.
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 42:40 David Senra It's gonna sound a lot like Edwin Land.
- ▶ 47:30 David Senra What did Edwin Land say?
- ▶ 1:05:22 David Senra And it's exactly what Edmund land from Polaroid built his career off of. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 1:21:46 David Senra Don't do anything someone else can do is the motto of Edwin Land. 2 times in the scene
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 15:38 David Senra One of my favorite things that I ever read about Edwin Land, Edwin Land, obviously the founder of Polaroid and Steve Jobs' hero, and he has this great motto, and he says, optimism is a moral duty.
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 51:11 David Senra It's going to sound a lot like Edwin Land. 2 times in the scene
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 19:08 David Senra I went back and looked through some of my notes and highlights for the biographies on Edwin Land, which was Steve Jobs' hero. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 22:10 David Senra This is Walt Disney, but it might as well be Edwin Land because I read this and then one, two, three times. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:36 David Senra Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs, James Dyson, the founder of Red Bull, Red Bull, uh, Dietrich Massachusetts, uh, Charlie Munger. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:43 David Senra This is just like Edwin Land's ideas that show up in Steve Jobs' companies and products. 2 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 43:56 David Senra How did Edwin Land find new employees to hire? 2 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 32:49 David Senra oh yeah, I love this guy named Edwin Land, and then you go read Edwin Land, like, 2 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:16:02 David Senra Uh, like, Phil Knight, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Steve Jobs, Edwin Land.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:05:05 David Senra The parting advice that he has reminds me of one of my favorite Edwin Land quotes. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:14:14 David Senra One of my favorite quotes I've ever heard comes from the founder of Polaroid, Steve Jobs Hero, and the patron saint of Founders Podcast, which is our beloved Edwin Land.
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 17:19 David Senra Uh, Edwin Land gets to Harvard, right, where he goes to the Harvard library, reads every single book on light.
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 8:28 David Senra And we've seen this over and over again, go back to Naval Ravikant, go back to Michael Jordan, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs will say the same thing.
- ▶ 19:50 David Senra Edwin Land said it best.
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 38:53 David Senra And so this is the list that I came up with Steve jobs, Edwin land, Danny Meyer, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 17:31 David Senra And so when I got to this part, it made me think of one of my personal heroes, Edwin Land. 3 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 6:54 David Senra That is Edwin Land's idea. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 David Senra Shout out to Edwin Lan.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers.
Working With Steve Jobs
- ▶ 36:33 David Senra Edwin Land, Steve, the founder of Polaroid, Steve Jobs' hero, changed Apple. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 11:54 David Senra Just like, just like Steve Jobs talked about visiting Edwin Land was like a shrine.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 31:05 David Senra Uh, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs, over and over again, they reject diversification, and they go all in.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 53:31 David Senra This made me think of one of my favorite, uh, Edwin Land quotes that I've been repeating a lot lately, that the best way to keep a secret is to shout out from the rooftops.
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 11:27 David Senra So he's going to wind up being very close friends with Edwin Land, who I refuse to and will never shut up about. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 1:38 David Senra So it starts back on two 63 and two 64 with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, then two 65, Steve Jobs and two 66, Henry Ford. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 David Senra I'm not going to call him a cautionary tale by any means, but if you looked at Ford and land and jobs, they always had control over what they did.
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 1:42 David Senra So back on episode two 63 in that biography of Edwin Land, it's called Land's Polaroid, the company and the man who invented it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 David Senra So I just went through the fact that at the beginning, Edwin Land was sending all these other people. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 21:27 David Senra And on the very next page, he talks about the person I've spent, I just spent, what, the last, right before I reread this book, I spent probably 10 days reading, it's gotta be close to a thousand pages on Edwin Land. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:12 David Senra So in the last episode, I talked about this idea that Edwin Land used, that Akio Morita used, and I think it's a very powerful idea.