why are there so few Healthcare Founders featured?
David.. I am founder of www.diaceutics.com and no doubt like many before me have come late to your podcasts to find my tribe!.. but I do wonder why there are so few ( none) true founders disrupting in healthcare.... I have my own thoughts which I am happy to share but thought I would move from silent listener to lifetime member and ask you.. My email is Peter.keeling@diaceutics.com
Insightful Questions To Identify Intelligent Fanatics
As an investor, over the last 10 years or so I have been paying greater attention in identifying the qualities of “intelligent fanatics” when assessing early-stage founders or CEOs of listed companies. This is not easy especially if one looks at business leaders across different industries, geographies and cultures (I live in Europe). Based on your extensive reading of great founders' biographies, what are in your opinion 3-5 examples of insightful questions one can ask founders/CEOs to better assess if they are (or are likely to become) “intelligent fanatics”, who can achieve disproportionate success in their respective field? It would be interesting also to think about which questions could have easily enabled investors to better assess founders, who also in the eyes of sophisticated investors initially appeared to be “intelligent fanatics” but overtime revealed themselves to be “overly successful storytellers” (Theranos, FTX, Wework, etc) Thank you for all the work you put in the Founders podcast! It’s a great product that in different ways makes a difference to many people PS: The google doc below, which you can share with your audience if you want, is a collection of materials on the subject of "intelligent fanatics" qualities, which you may find interesting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m7k-2cepxK75Gr7k0Ws-usR2ArJesM2MA_-gW_3N4G0/edit?pli=1 Kevin Martelli Switzerland www.dplus.ventures
A lifesaving book to a bored friend in a boring job.
Hi, thank you for the best podcast I can imagine! It´s changing my life. (And my wife, making her read Estée Lauder, etc.) My friend is very uninspired and bored in her job. She has a lot of talent and is doing great. She was even employee of the year. But she is so bored and is not doing what she loves. But she cannot get her self to quit and find a new job that is inspiring. What book can I give her that will hopefully inspire her to quit her job and get her life better. I believe everybody should do what they love and not just have a job because it is convenient and pays a good salary. Best regards Endre Bryn Hidlefjord (So lucky to be owning and running my own paradise in Norway, living the dream. Doing what me and my family loves for a living) https://florogfjare.no/en/ Thank you so much!
Common Threads - Door to Door Salesman
Hi David, Love your passion and focus. I've listened to almost all of your episodes, which has been a wonderful journey with you. In addition to the individual stories, one of the things I love is connecting the dots on "common threads" across the various Founders. One of them is obscure or much less obvious... that is a number of them spent time in door-to-door sales - from Henry Kaiser to Jim Clayton, to Paul Orfela to David Ogilvy. What's in the soup here? Excited to get your thoughts... With gratitude, Adam R. Karr
Personal growth of founders
Hi David! I love your podcast and the AMA! I take notes on every episode and review them all the time, and I've bought a number of the books that you've discussed - I became obsessed with Walt Disney for weeks! I'm an executive coach (AlisaCohn.com) and the author of From Start-up to Grown-up. I'm obsessed with the personal growth of leaders, particularly the personal growth of founders who need to evolve and grow as their companies grow. What have you observed are some themes about how founders grow personally as their companies grow? Who are the top 3-5 founders who exhibit this quality of rapid personal growth? Thanks so much and keep inspiring us! Alisa Cohn/AlisaCohn.com