David Rosenthal: belief

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…We are your hosts. Today's episode is our next installment of Acquired sessions, a video format on YouTube that we started playing with last year. Our guest today is David Senra of the Founders Podcast. David is quite possibly the only person we know who is more obsessed than us with business history and the lessons that great founders teach us. David Senra has read hundreds of founder biographies and done deep episodes on them all. I don't know that I'm at hundreds yet as me, David, but I'm definitely at dozens. I aspire to be in the hundreds, but David Senra is just one of our closest podcaster friends and friends out there. His show is awesome. Here on this episode, we had him out to my living room here in San Francisco. We had just an awesome, really fun, multi, multi hour conversation, just like the ones that he and I have scheduled every month on Zoom when the mics are off. It was super organic, super unstructured. We covered a ton of ground, including that I think two nights before we recorded, David was just coming up from LA, where he had dinner with Charlie Munger. We spent a lot of time talking about that. Charlie's influence on David is Warren's influence on all three of us. A bunch of thoughts on advice, generally. As you can imagine, David just sprinkled dozens and dozens of historical examples and founder stories throughout the episode. It is crazy. Every time someone's making a point, he'll dive in. This is just like that thing Edwin Land said that one time.…

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