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#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World

What I learned from reading <a href="https://amzn.to/2nw88ub">Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World</a> by Lynn Downey---<a href="https://foundersdaily.supercast.com/">Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium</a> — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:01] Levi was one of the men who set that firm foundation[17:35] I do not have at this time a specific occupation...I will share the fate that has been assigned to me[22:29] Enduring hardship for the ultimate goal[29:24] A hole in the market[42:00] Levi starts his business cold[54:18] The dangers of shipping by sea[1:04:42] Inventing Jeans by accident[1:10:00] Overnight success 20 years in the making[1:17:40] How Levi was able to serve customers who were illiterate or spoke another language<a href="https://www.amazon.com/shop/founderspodcast">A list of all the books featured on Founders Podcast</a>.

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen