#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativ...

How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world. He started as employee #3, learned from Brad Jacobs (who built ei ...  Show more

Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for twe ...  Show more

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Are innovators always difficult to work with? What kind of person can create disruptive change? Walter Isaacson is a student of history with a focus on geniuses, from Albert Einstein to Leonardo da Vinci. The former Time magazine editor followed Elon Musk for three years to repor ...  Show more

What I learned from reading Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- Outline:   He had known how to gather interest, faith, and hope in the success of his projects. I think of this epis ...  Show more

Show notes / PDF & Infographic / Free Audiobook / Imagine slicing open the blueprint of life and pasting in a new future. Jennifer Doudna did— with CRISPR. In this episode, we’ll decode Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker—rivalries, revelations, and the race to rewrite humanity. R ...  Show more