David Senra

11 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 111 times in 36 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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2026 21 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2025 27 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
2024 63 mentions in 14 episodes 5 per episode

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Oct 14, 2024
Disclosure
Hays: Capital paid the Founders Podcast just $5,000 per quarter in 2022
“At Capital, we were one of the first advertisers of Founders Podcasts. And at the time, it's so funny what, like, two years does. I think we paid him, like, 5000 for the quarter.”
Jordi Hays Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 57:22 Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
Oct 14, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hays: Sponsoring Founders Podcast now requires a seven-figure, multi-year deal
“And now it's like, you need to be doing, like, a seven-figure, multi-year deal to even enter the conversation, and he's probably gonna be like, yeah, it's not a fit.”
Jordi Hays Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 57:39 Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Hays: A solo sci-fi analysis podcast could generate $5M annually
“If you just want to make five million dollars a year, having the founders podcast for sci-fi is a very, potentially a very efficient way to do that. You can have no team. Just you, a microphone, a computer, you can make five million dollars a year, basically M…”
Jordi Hays Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 1:42:13 How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Senra: Only 1,000 copies were ever made of 1946 book 'Rolex Jubilee'
“The book I'm going to talk to you about today is nearly impossible to find. It was first published in 1946. There's only a thousand copies ever made. It's called Rolex Jubilee.”
David Senra Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 31:37 You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
Mar 7, 2025
Disclosure
Senra: I operate without an assistant or schedule to focus on reading
“I go, why do I need an assistant? He goes to answer these emails and they're like manager schedule. I go, why do I need a schedule? Like, I just need to wake up every day, read for a few hours, sit down once a week and talk about what I read. I don't need to d…”
David Senra Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 32:09 "I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
Mar 7, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Senra: I work alone because I am intensely harsh with colleagues
“This is, like, one of the reasons I tend to work alone is because I am really fucking mean. And I don't like that. I wish I wasn't so, you know like intense around that. I'm perfectly fine being that way with myself. I just don't like doing that to other peopl…”
David Senra Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 4:50 "I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Senra: Charlie Munger named John D. Rockefeller the greatest founder of all time
“When I went to Charlie Munger's house and had dinner with him, like he said that the greatest, he feels the greatest founder of all time is Rockefeller.”
David Senra Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 3:57 "I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
Senra: Masayoshi Son is a gambler who never built a useful product
“He is a legit gambler and it's like a sad existence. He didn't build a product that made somebody else's life better. He didn't do any of that.”
David Senra Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 28:17 David Senra on Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Being a Great Founder.
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Senra: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Griffin, and Walton won through faster tech investment
“They all have in common that they invest in technology, the savings compound, and it could be gives you an advantage over slower moving competitors, and it could be a, the difference between a profit and a loss, and if you go back and look at Rockefeller, Carn…”
David Senra Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 28:48 David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Opinion
Senra: Great founders should skip side quests and work until death
“I'd prefer them to not have side quests. I'd prefer them to work on what they're working on until they're dead.”
David Senra Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 9:44 What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Senra: Founders run companies based on their personality, not one archetype
“One thing that was like striking that missing from that essay is the fact like, you know, like it was like, well, there's a manager runs a company one way and a founder runs a company in one way. It's like, no, like the founder runs it based on the personality…”
David Senra Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 3:51 What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
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