I Study Entrepreneurs

What I learned about Jim Simons' twelve-year journey from reading The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. This episode was inspired by my blog post: Jim Simons’s Success at Renaissance Took Twelve Years.

What I learned about Jim Simons' reason for founding Renaissance Technologies from reading The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman. This is the audio version of my blog post: Why Jim Simons Founded Renaissance Technologies.

What I learned about Bob Johnson from reading The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television by Brett Pulley. This is the audio version of my blog post: How BET's Bob Johnson Leveraged One Strength to Overcome Major Weaknesses.

What I learned about Bob Johnson's profit strategy after reading The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television by Brett Pulley. This is the audio version of my blog post: How Robert “Bob” Johnson Created the Highest Profit Margins in TV at BET.

What I learned about Bob Johnson's strategy to launch BET after reading The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television by Brett Pulley. This is the audio version of my blog post: How Robert “Bob” Johnson Launched BET After Raising 95% Less Than His Goal.

Here are my takeaways from catching up on the audio recordings of my blog. This is the audio version of my blog post: All Caught Up on Audio Blog.

Here's what I learned about my failed attempt to record an audio version of my blog every day. This is the audio version of my blog post: Why My Recording Habit Failed—and What I’m Doing About It.

60-day challenge that helped me launch my blog in 2020 and form my writing habit.

The first blog post I published on March 9th 2020

This is my 215th weekly reflection. Here are the things I thought about from this past week. This is the audio version of my blog post: Weekly Reflection: Week Two Hundred Sixteen.

What I learned about Henry Singleton from reading ⁠⁠Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It⁠⁠ by George A. Roberts. This is the audio version of my blog post: Takeaways from Henry Singleton’s Journey to Build a Conglomerate.

Hemry Singleton's twin tailwinds.

Henry Singleton's financial performance metric.

What I learned about measuring financial performance from reading ⁠Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It⁠ by George A. Roberts. This is the audio version of my blog post: Henry Singleton’s Teledyne Return Metric.