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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 11:48 David Senra He talks about what the opposite of building a creative monopoly looks like, and he, at the time, he's, uh, he's building PayPal during the dot-com boom in the late nineties, early 2000, and he's describing this environment of people,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:50 David Senra He was managing PayPal at the time. 2 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 39:12 David Senra Goes back to after he sold X.com, which turned into PayPal and makes the most important decision of his life, which is to start SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
How Elon Works
- ▶ 8:05 David Senra One of the conflicts he had with his co-founders of PayPal was the fact that he was not interested in making niche products. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 David Senra So when he gets kicked out of PayPal, he's got to pick, what do I want to work on next? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 David Senra And so he's pitching Michael Moritz at Sequoia to invest in Tesla, even though they made a bunch of money in PayPal.
- ▶ 36:55 David Senra and he was kicked out of PayPal by his co-founders. 4 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 46:24 David Senra Jerry Jones' risk tolerance in the 1980, 1999 kind of reminds me of, of what Elon did after he sold PayPal when he, he cleared, I think, a hundred and eighty million after taxes when they sold PayPal, and he put a hundred into SpaceX, 70…
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 8:49 David Senra There is a great line from Max Levchin, one of the co-founders of PayPal. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 2:37 David Senra He's been kicked out of PayPal and he's trying to figure out what to do next. 2 times in the scene
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 11:22 David Senra I think one of the companies that had the largest collections of A players in the early days was PayPal. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:47:01 David Senra There's this great book on the history of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 23:58 David Senra I remember, uh, when I was reading about the early history of PayPal, I think Elon goes on vacation for the first time.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:22:24 David Senra He's the author of this book called The Founders, which is on the beginning of PayPal, and it talks about how competitive in the end of, it's really competitive at all times, but especially during the dot-com bubble, how competitive it was…
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 45:21 David Senra There's this great book on the history of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:21:54 David Senra There's this great book on the history of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:40:48 David Senra There's this great book on the history of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:10:17 David Senra There's this great book on the history of PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 1:04:57 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:39:46 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 8:03 David Senra Peter wrote the best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 11:31 David Senra He says of the six people who started PayPal,
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 40:23 David Senra Peter Thiel spotted the opportunity for Palantir based on solving payment fraud at PayPal.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 48:57 David Senra When I got to that page, made me think of something, uh, Max Levchin said, uh, my, in that book, uh, The Founders, which is a story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley, written by my friend, Jimmy Soni. 3 times in the scene
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 5:01 David Senra It draws on everything that I've learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and then an investor in hundreds of startups.
- ▶ 10:05 David Senra So then Peter spends a chapter talking about what it was like building PayPal during this, uh, this time of mass hysteria. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:39 David Senra And so he references this exactly what they did at PayPal. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:39 David Senra And this is the idea he used when he was CEO of PayPal. 3 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 46:15 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 1:20:40 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 53:59 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
- ▶ 31:55 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 56:42 David Senra What did the people that founded PayPal say about it?