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#323 Jimmy Buffett

#323 Jimmy Buffett

FromFounders


#323 Jimmy Buffett

FromFounders

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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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What I learned from reading Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way by Ryan White and A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.----I use EightSleep to get the best sleep of my life. Find out why EightSleep is loved by founders everywhere and get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/----I'm doing a live show with Patrick O’Shaughnessy from Invest Like the Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here!----Vesto makes it easy for you to invest your businesses idle cash. Schedule a demo with Vesto's founder Ben and tell him David from Founders sent you. Here's the legal disclosures to make the lawyers happy:Vesto Advisors, LLC (“Vesto”) is an SEC registered investment adviser. Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training. More information about Vesto and our partnership can be found hereWe are entitled to compensation for promoting Vesto Advisors, LLC. Accordingly, we have an incentive to endorse Vesto and its team and services. We are not current advisory clients of the Vesto.----Listen to Invest Like The Best #343 David Senra: In The Service of Founders ----(8:00) Q: What are you going to do with your life? A: Live a pretty interesting one.(10:00) A lesson that his grandfather taught him: The only thing standing between Jimmy and the world would be a lack of imagination an an over abundance of caution. All he had to do was leap and the world would be his.(13:00) There is a lot of Mark Twain in Jimmy Buffett. Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris Jr. (Founders #312) (13:30) There was nothing normal about me. My drive was not normal. My vision of where I wanted to go in life was not normal. The whole idea of a conventional existence was like Kryptonite to me. — Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Founders #141)(15:00) Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett: Their lives are illustrations of the power of compounding.(16:30) A hit song was nice. But owning the publishing on a hit song was even better.(17:30) Decoded by Jay Z. (Founders #238)(19:30) You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something. — Steve Jobs(24:00) If you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business. — Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Futureby Peter Thiel (Founders #278)(28:00) It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category. — Jimmy Buffett(28:00) Billy asked me who I saw myself like in today's music scene. I told him, nobody. I really didn't see myself like anybody. What really set me apart in these days was my repertoire. It was more formidable than the rest of the players. There were a lot of better musicians around but there wasn't anybody close in nature to what I was doing. — Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan. (Founders #259)(29:00) No one is ever eager to fix a cash machine that isn't broken.(29:00) You can’t sell a bagless vacuum cleaner to people that make $500 million a year selling vacuum bags. — Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson(Founders #300)(31:00) Something that grows exponentially can become so valuable that it's worth making an extraordinary effort to get it started. — Paul Graham How to Do Great Work (Founders #314)(36:00) My description of Jimmy Buffett:-Blue collar work ethic-Learning machine-Loves it-Won’t quit(37:00) The Business of Phish(42:00) What Jimmy Buffett and Kanye West have in commonSome say he arrogant. Can y'all blame him?It was straight embarrassing how y'all played himLast year shoppin' my demo, I was tryna shineEvery motherfucker told me that I couldn't rhymeNow I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteemOr use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams(46:00) Jimmy kept the main thing the main thing:  “I don't give a shit what happens 22 a
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
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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