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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 39:08 David Senra So like Michael Dell's in the book, Steve Jobs in the book, Bill Gates is in the book, and a bunch of other founders that had a company at the time and then disappeared are also in the book.
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 44:43 David Senra And one of the first people to see this potential was actually Michael Dell. 3 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 3:04 David Senra So when I read this, two people popped to mind, Michael Dell and James Dyson.
- ▶ 16:56 David Senra Michael Dell told me in the episode I did with him and on the David center feed in our conversation, he says, if you don't have a crisis, make one, you get people excited, motivated, and you drive the necessary change that you need in your…
Bruce Springsteen Repairs Himself
- ▶ 26:24 David Senra So one of my favorite lines from Michael Dell's autobiography is the fact that, you know, he starts his company. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 2:48 David Senra So this deep belief in constant reinvention, as mandatory, as not optional, something I think that Jensen has in common with Michael Dell. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:35 David Senra My conversation with Daniel Eck, the founder of Spotify, and my conversation with Michael Dell. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 11:55 David Senra I absolutely loved Michael Dell's autobiography that I've told you about a million times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 David Senra Because there's somebody out there like a Bill Gates or like a Michael Dell that wants it deeply and are willing to do whatever is necessary to get the information they need that would help them accomplish their goals.
- ▶ 26:54 David Senra It is so odd that Bill, it goes back to, you know, the ego and having a lot of confidence that I mentioned that Michael Dell said, and that Bill Gates, you know, everybody around him reported seeing him when he was earlier.
- ▶ 54:51 David Senra Bill and Paul were very different, and I think there's a story in Michael Dell's autobiography that's similar to the story that's told in Paul Allen's autobiography, in the sense that Michael had an older, more experienced person that he… 3 times in the scene
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.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 25:25 David Senra Michael Dell's excellent, excellent, excellent autobiography.
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 12:56 David Senra And it, it's talked about in the first few pages, it's talked all the way to the very end, and I actually think it influences very similar to the Michael Dell episode where, you know, Michael Dell had a remarkable life, but I feel the most… 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra Michael Dell's in there, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 21:21 David Senra Isn't this amazing how many times this is coming up on these, uh, the people that you and I have been studying this the last few weeks, Michael Dell, Phil Knight. 3 times in the scene
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 6:41 David Senra If you have not listened to the Michael Dell episode I did last week, please listen to it. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:36 David Senra And now, because I just spent, you know, two weeks studying Michael Dell and reading both the books that he wrote, there's a lot of Dell that jumps out to me. 6 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 0:11 David Senra That evening was almost the precise midpoint in a nine month drama in which the personal computing company I started in my freshman dorm room at the University of Texas in 1984. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:39 David Senra But Win, a CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader, and it is written by Michael Dell. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 David Senra I think the most important lesson, as impressive as I am, as impressed I am with what Michael Dell has built, and I think there's a ton of, you know, just useful information here for, for the entrepreneurs, current generation of… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 David Senra Michael Dell starts. 21 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 David Senra That's going to change Michael Dell's life. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 David Senra I delivered that doctor, a Michael Dell special. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 David Senra He was going to, you didn't have to like, I'm going to discover the next Michael Dell. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 David Senra And there's another thing that Michael Dell is going to have in common with Phil Knight, the founder of Nike. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:40 David Senra Only the self-confident, only those with an abundance of self-belief, like a Nolan Bush now, like a Steve Jobs, like a nineteen-year-old Michael Dell, only the, the self-confident, or only the, the people with full self-belief are… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:54 David Senra Now, what I want to focus on is the building of Dell, but I do want to just pull out when I find them in the book, just these other lessons I think Michael Dell has for us. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:43 David Senra So I want to read you Michael Dell's explanation of he, he beautifully in this interview that he gave, he beautifully summarizes why this was so fundamental to their success. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:19 David Senra I talk about it more on that episode, but we're starting to see that the threat is going to come from below with Michael Dell in relation to compact and then IBM, because he says we were undercutting them on price, way undercutting them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:27 David Senra This is how Michael Dell and Dell saw this problem. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:01 David Senra So he's like, well, what if we went under like so many other computer companies in the mid to late eighties, then Dell could have this negative connotation. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:47 David Senra Michael gave me a better way to describe this. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:00 David Senra And so in 1993, Dell pushes, he's like, hey, we, we gotta get into servers. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:14 David Senra I want to talk a little bit about taking the company private and again, accomplishing things that no one else had accomplished, accomplished before Michael Dell. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:16 David Senra I mentioned earlier, there's very few people that have ever lived that could point to an accomplishment as profound and as impressive as what Michael Dell has built. 6 times in the scene
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 41:51 David Senra So like Michael Dell's in there, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, all these other people as well.
- ▶ 59:44 David Senra He talks about Michael Dell. 5 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 18:09 David Senra I have, um, I read both of Michael Dell's autobiographies. 2 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 27:25 David Senra They talked about the fact that Michael Dell is also using this model by keeping costs low and passing back scale benefits.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 1:11 David Senra That year, Michael Dell famously said of Apple, what would I do?