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#27 A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur

What I learned from reading <a href="https://amzn.to/2MuBpRc">A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur</a>by Tracy Kidder---<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. ---[7:00] Kayak sells for $1.8 billion[12:00] "I'm paying attention. I want meetings of three people, not ten."[15:00] "Someday this boy's going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I'm going to be standing beside him."[22:30] A description of Paul's bipolar disorder[31:00] The economics of games[36:30] Learning how to negotiate from his Dad[43:00] "The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet."[50:00] Leaving a $1,000,000 behind[55:00] Applying the lessons he learned from watching his Dad negotiate[58:30] The entrepreneur of ice[1:01:00] "Consistency doesn't matter. Only invention matters."A list of<a href="https://www.amazon.com/shop/founderspodcast"> 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