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Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In the 1980s, images of starving children in Ethiopia shocked the world and triggered one of the largest humanitarian responses in history. But behind the famine was a much deeper story of drought, civil war, dictatorshi ...  Show more

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show!In 1829, a British scientist who had never visited the United States left his fortune to a foreign country across the ocean. His instructions were simple, vague, and enormously ambitious: create an institution for the inc ...  Show more

What I learned from reading As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty by J. Paul Getty.  ---- Build relationships with other founders, investors, and executives at a Founders Event ---- "Learning from history is a form of leverage." — Charlie Munger.  Founders Notes gives y ...  Show more

When you think of Stoicism, you don’t usually think of words like “rich” or “wealthy.”But you should.Before he founded Stoicism, Zeno was a wealthy and successful merchant from a family of wealthy and successful merchants. Seneca was so wealthy that when he called in some of his ...  Show more

What I learned from reading The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo  ---- Learning from history is a form of leverage. —Charlie Munger. Founders Notes gives you the super power to learn from history's greatest ent ...  Show more

Since Stoicism was founded, most of the Stoics have been wealthy…and yet almost to a letter, most of them have warned of the dangers and perils of wealth. No one embodies this paradox more than Seneca. The Stoics have warned again and again about the downsides of abundant wealth. ...  Show more