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Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 44:56 David Senra It says his formula worked even for a young dropout from Harvard.
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 17:47 David Senra That is Harvard.
- ▶ 22:00 David Senra And so when Bill Gates goes to Harvard, he goes back to the exact same working style. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:46 David Senra Bill Gates would later tell a friend that he went to Harvard to learn from people smarter than he was and left disappointed. 2 times in the scene
How Elon Works
- ▶ 11:19 David Senra One of my favorite stories about this is Edwin Land goes to Harvard, is obsessed with the science of light and optics, reads every single book on light and optics in Harvard's library. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 20:05 David Senra He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid.
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 6:46 David Senra He's also teaching at Harvard and it says, Simons began questioning his future.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 47:04 David Senra You know, there's great stories where Ken had convinced, uh, Harvard to install like a satellite dish.
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 40:26 David Senra After getting his undergraduate degree at Harvard, John attended business school, striking up connections that would help him guide the company.
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind The Inditex Group
- ▶ 46:11 David Senra And so there was a Harvard case study written about Inditex before they went public that two million people read.
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 10:14 David Senra She had been an English major at Harvard and had just gotten a PhD.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 17:28 David Senra A few years into the future, Edwin Land's gonna go to Harvard, go to the library and read every single book about light in the Harvard library.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 4:08 David Senra In the library at Harvard on light, which was his field of scientific expertise, his interest. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 24:27 David Senra And Edwin Land should know because he dropped out of Harvard twice.
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. 4 times in the scene
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 23:56 David Senra And it wasn't until I became a Neiman journalism fellow at Harvard that I finally had time to think. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 52:02 David Senra A story of how power works in the real world, and he had done this, like, uh, he got basically, like, this fellowship, I think it was at Harvard, I can't remember, where he's taking all these classes, and he kept talking about the fact… 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 13:13 David Senra He's going to go off to Harvard, but at the same time, him and Alan have these ongoing discussions about what they should do together in the future, said he and Alan began to talk seriously about forming their own software company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 David Senra And so Gates doesn't think he's getting a lot out of Harvard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:22 David Senra It says, at Harvard, Bill was one of the top math students, but he was not the best. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:57 David Senra And so this is where Gates is going to drop out of Harvard for the first time.
- ▶ 20:52 David Senra And so Bill drops out of Harvard, moves to Albuquerque, where MITS is headquartered.
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 12:35 David Senra He visited Rutgers, Yale, Harvard, and Brown.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 1:13:47 David Senra At first it was just for Harvard students in that form.
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 3:19 David Senra Edwin Land is a two-time Harvard dropout.