#14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding...

This episode discusses Joseph Wechsberg’s 1966 book, The Merchant Bankers. Rather than recounting the histories of families like the Rothschilds, Barings, Hambros, Warburgs, and Lehman Brothers, I wanted to extract the principles they shared. Merchant banking is fascinating. It's ...  Show more

What I learned from reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (for the 3rd or 4th time) Made possible by: Ramp: ⁠ https://ramp.com⁠ Applovin: ⁠ https://www.applovin.com/⁠ Vanta: ⁠ https://vanta.com/founders 

How one social media site birthed an empire. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng take us from Zuckerberg's childhood to joining the billionaires' club at just 23, then on to his current status as one of the four rich ...  Show more

Check out my Million Dollar Weekend at milliondollarweekend.com. If you need help starting a business, this is the book for you Today we’re re-running our awesome episode where I break down the top lessons I learned from working directly under Mark Zuckerberg.  It’s always fun to ...  Show more

On today's show, we study billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: Why Mark Zuckerberg said no to $1B age 22 How Mark Zuckerberg thinks about making big changes to Facebook’s platform What Mark Zuckerberg is most excited about over the next 20 years How Mark Zuc ...  Show more

It's the new millennium and Mark Zuckerberg is bored in high school. He's a prodigious student so smart he's already taking graduate level coding classes at Mercy College. Soon, he's going to build a product that will change the Internet forever. Now he just has to graduate high ...  Show more