Best Business Professional Biography Podcasts (2025)

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#390 Rare Steve Jobs Interview 40:46

1h ago40:46

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I've read this interview probably 10 times. It's that good. Steve Jobs was 29 when the interview was published and with remarkable clarity of thought Steve explains the upcoming technological revolution, why the personal computer is the greatest tool humans have ever invented, how the computer compares to past inventions, why software needs to be s…

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#389 The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon 55:42

9d ago55:42

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When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: “Don’t let the accountants run your business.” Little did he know that over the next fifteen years, the struggle between “financial” and “creative” would become one of the central themes as Mellon’s business. Mellon grew Jimmy Choo into a billion…

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#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them! 1:19:28

19d ago1:19:28

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(I fixed the audio and uploaded a new episode!) "To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written." That is the best description of Bezos's letters I have ever read. I just finished rereading these letters for the 4th or…

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A conversation on focus and finding your life's work 1:22:05

26d ago1:22:05

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My friend Patrick O’Shaughnessy asked me to come to New York and record a conversation. Patrick had just finished listening to episode #383 "Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream" and he believed there was an important conversation to have on focus and finding your life's work. This conversation was off-the-cuff and from the soul. I …

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#387 Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine 1:08:06

1M ago1:08:06

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Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start trading full time until he was 40. The company he founded — Renaissance Technologies — has made over $100 billion in profits. Starting out with the heretical belief that there was a hidden structure in financial markets, Jim decided to staff his “crazy …

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#386 Akio Morita: Founder of Sony 1:11:32

1M ago1:11:32

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Akio Morita was a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony. Born as the first son and fifteenth-generation heir to a 300-year-old sake-brewing family in Japan, Akio eschewed the traditional path to forge his own legacy in electronics. In post-war Japan, Akio joined forces with Masaru Ibuka to found Sony. They started in a burned-out department…

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#385 Michael Dell 1:48:16

2M ago1:48:16

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This is one of the most extraordinary founder stories you will ever hear. Michael Dell started his company with $1000 when he was 19 years old. The revenues for the first 16 years of Dell look like this: 1984 $6M 1985 $33M 1986 $67M 1987 $159M 1988 $258M 1989 $388M 1990 $546M 1991 $890M 1992 $2B 1993 $2.9B 1994 $3.5B 1995 $5.3B 1996 $7.8B 1997 $12.…

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#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities 1:06:30

2M ago1:06:30

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Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who is the smartest person you know" and "Who do you think has the best business?". "Ken Griffin" is a very common answer. I've heard Ken described in two ways: "Winner" and "Killer". For years I've come across interesting anecdotes about Ken. Like when h…

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The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig 50:00

2M ago50:00

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Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world and no one knew his name. I've read almost 400 biographies of history's greatest founders and this book is one of my all time favorites. Daniel Ludwig started his company at 19 and was working on it well into his 90s. He built a massive conglomerate of over 200 companies operating in more than 50 count…

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#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream 1:08:07

3M ago1:08:07

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Todd Graves is one of my favorite living entrepreneurs. He's a great example of Charlie Munger's maxim: Find a simple idea and take it seriously. Todd wanted to create a quick service restaurant that only focused on quality chicken finger meals and nothing else. Everyone told him that couldn't possibly work. The college paper that described the ide…

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#382 Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood 1:31:25

3M ago1:31:25

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At the core of Michael Ovitz's success is his relentless work ethic and commitment to mastering his craft. 50 years ago he founded Creative Artists Agency. CAA starts out as just five young guys in a run down office and eventually becomes the most powerful agency in the world. Ovitz's autobiography explains how that happened. As the Wall Street Jou…

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#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz 27:02

3M ago27:02

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What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz. 1: Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. 2: There's no ceiling on where you can push your profession. 3: Don't be unequally yoked. Pick partners that have the same ambition as you. 4: Read biographies. Know everything about the history of…

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#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words 1:21:43

3M ago1:21:43

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For over 30 years the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meetings were recorded. Munger and Buffett answered over 1700 questions from shareholders during that period. Alex Morris watched hundreds of hours of these meetings and then he gathered, organized, and edited the most interesting ideas into 450+ pages — all in Buffett and Munger's own words. I though…

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#379 Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys) 59:45

4M ago59:45

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Jerry Jones rolled the dice until his knuckles bled. He started working at 7 years old. Jerry could sell, sell, sell. He sold fruit at his father’s grocery store in grade school and sold shoes out of the trunk of his car in college. After failing to sell pizza franchises he tried real estate and insurance. He never met a high risk deal he didn’t li…

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#378 The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess 53:24

4M ago53:24

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Your father goes bankrupt. You work for 50 cents a day to try to help your family survive the Great Depression. At 19 you see an opportunity where others see nothing. You start “a little fuel delivery business” with one used truck. Five years later you have 10 trucks. World War II breaks out and you serve as the fuel supply officer for General Patt…

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#377 Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr. 1:03:42

4M ago1:03:42

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Marcus Wallenberg Jr's impact on Swedish industry was so substantial that during the 1970s, Wallenberg family businesses employed about 40% of Sweden's industrial workforce and represented 40% of the total worth of the Stockholm stock market. The Wallenberg family is one of the most fascinating family dynasties you could read about. The family has …

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#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia 1:40:44

5M ago1:40:44

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What I learned from reading The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business co…

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#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green 53:47

5M ago53:47

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Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets and were reported in major newspapers. She was a one woman bank and the single biggest individual financier in the world. She took no partners and ran her own money. She built a financial empire of stocks, bonds, railroads, and real estate. She battle…

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The Most Inspiring Autobiography I've Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai 1:15:50

5M ago1:15:50

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Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the richest person in Korea. When Chung was in his 80s, he wrote an autobiography that tells the devastating reality of growing up in dire poverty, how he escaped through manual labor, and how he founded and grew one of the world's largest conglomerates.…

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#374 Rare Jeff Bezos Interview 36:00

6M ago36:00

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Jeff Bezos on retirement being lame, AI, the electricity metaphor for AI, the good fortune of being alive during multiple golden ages, long term life long passions, refusing to underestimate opportunity, dancing with curiosity, inventing, wandering, crisp documents and messy meetings, willing to be misunderstood, and why he doesn't do many intervie…

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#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars 1:33:57

6M ago1:33:57

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Brad Jacobs is one of the most talented living entrepreneurs. Brad has started 8 different billion dollar or multi-billion dollar businesses. He has done over 500 acquisitions and has raised over $30 billion. He started his first company at 23, has over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, and is the most energetic person I have ever been aro…

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#372: Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group 49:16

6M ago49:16

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Amancio Ortega is one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ortega is the founder of Inditex, a pioneer of fast fashion, an entrepreneur with over 60 years of experience, and has created a business model that is studied in universities that he could not access. His life story is inspiring, educational, and full of valuable ideas for future generat…

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#371 James J. Hill: The Empire Builder 58:43

7M ago58:43

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What I learned from rereading James J. Hill: Empire Builder by Michael P. Malone. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs a…

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#370 The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad 1:05:33

7M ago1:05:33

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What I learned from reading Leading By Design: The Ikea Story by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull and The Testament of a Furniture Dealer by Ingvar Kamprad. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by go…

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AI in the Classroom - Personalizing Education for Every Learner 4:41

7M ago4:41

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Podcast Episode 1: AI in the Classroom - Personalizing Education for Every LearnerThis podcast episode discusses the benefits of personalized learning, an educational approach that adapts to each student's unique needs. The episode emphasizes the role of AI-powered adaptive learning platforms, which use algorithms to assess student progress and cus…

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#369 Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX 1:03:59

7M ago1:03:59

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What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help y…

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