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Todd Graves. Raising Cane’s.

Available everywhere you get podcasts.

@toddgraves @raisingcanes
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Todd Graves. Raising Cane’s. Available everywhere you get podcasts. @toddgraves @raisingcanes
Michael Ovitz built the most powerful agency in Hollywood by making history mandatory.

He lived below Martin Scorsese, who screened films every night. Ovitz brought takeout and questions and absorbed knowledge about every director.

Then he made his agents do the same thing.

He required every CAA agent to watch every Academy Award winner—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writer—from the first ceremony forward.

While competitors chased meetings, CAA agents showed up fluent in 80 years of cinema.

That pattern recognition let them see what others couldn't: packages beat single clients. IP beats talent. Ownership beats commissions.

Ovitz called it "past is prologue."

"If you know history, you pretty much can predict the future."

David Ogilvy called it a "teaching hospital."

Same idea: Make excellence institutional, not personal.
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Michael Ovitz built the most powerful agency in Hollywood by making history mandatory. He lived below Martin Scorsese, who screened films every night. Ovitz brought takeout and questions and absorbed knowledge about every director. Then he made his agents do the same thing. He required every CAA agent to watch every Academy Award winner—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writer—from the first ceremony forward. While competitors chased meetings, CAA agents showed up fluent in 80 years of cinema. That pattern recognition let them see what others couldn't: packages beat single clients. IP beats talent. Ownership beats commissions. Ovitz called it "past is prologue." "If you know history, you pretty much can predict the future." David Ogilvy called it a "teaching hospital." Same idea: Make excellence institutional, not personal.
Nine years ago, I launched Founders (@founderspodcast).

This week, I'm launching a new podcast called David Senra. 

The first episode goes live this Sunday. 

Founders will still come out every week.

@scicommedia // @hubermanlab

Available on all podcast apps, on YouTube, on X and at davidsenra.com.
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Nine years ago, I launched Founders (@founderspodcast). This week, I'm launching a new podcast called David Senra. The first episode goes live this Sunday. Founders will still come out every week. @scicommedia // @hubermanlab Available on all podcast apps, on YouTube, on X and at davidsenra.com.
How Elon Musk fixed Starlink: 

“Starlink was a mess. It was 10X too expensive and they were building 1/10 of how many they needed. 

Elon’s like I’ve had it. This is now the bottleneck. I’m fixing this.

He grabs a team of engineers that he trusts and they fly up to Seattle. 

They fire the entire Starlink leadership team. 

They sit down in a war room and they start running the algorithm. 

- What is the first principles of satellite design? 

- How simple can we make this thing? 

- Why does this exist? 

- Why are these two things so far apart? 

- Why do we need this much energy? 

- Why do we need this manufacturing process? 

And over the course of a few months they make a two order of magnitude leap. 

These people had never encountered this design before, but just by applying the algorithm and working with maniacal urgency towards this extremely high design bar, they created this product that’s now — if it was a standalone business — would be worth tens of billions of dollars [or more].”
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How Elon Musk fixed Starlink: “Starlink was a mess. It was 10X too expensive and they were building 1/10 of how many they needed. Elon’s like I’ve had it. This is now the bottleneck. I’m fixing this. He grabs a team of engineers that he trusts and they fly up to Seattle. They fire the entire Starlink leadership team. They sit down in a war room and they start running the algorithm. - What is the first principles of satellite design? - How simple can we make this thing? - Why does this exist? - Why are these two things so far apart? - Why do we need this much energy? - Why do we need this manufacturing process? And over the course of a few months they make a two order of magnitude leap. These people had never encountered this design before, but just by applying the algorithm and working with maniacal urgency towards this extremely high design bar, they created this product that’s now — if it was a standalone business — would be worth tens of billions of dollars [or more].”
Dana White’s last $10 million bet on the UFC paid off.
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Dana White’s last $10 million bet on the UFC paid off.
Steve Jobs had soul in the game. My new conversation with Jimmy Iovine is full of Steve Jobs’ stories I’ve never heard anywhere else (and I’ve made 15 episodes about Steve for Founders!). Watch the full conversation. It’s incredible.
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Steve Jobs had soul in the game. My new conversation with Jimmy Iovine is full of Steve Jobs’ stories I’ve never heard anywhere else (and I’ve made 15 episodes about Steve for Founders!). Watch the full conversation. It’s incredible.
How Elon Musk thinks about money:

“Elon would always be at work on Sunday, and we had some chats where he laid out his philosophy. 

He would say that everything we did was a function of our burn rate and that we were burning through a hundred thousand dollars per day. 

It was this very entrepreneurial, Silicon Valley way of thinking that none of the aerospace engineers in Los Angeles were dialed into. 

Sometimes he wouldn’t let you buy a part for two thousand dollars because he expected you to find it cheaper or invent something cheaper. 

Other times, he wouldn’t flinch at renting a plane for ninety thousand dollars to get something to Kwaj because it saved an entire workday, so it was worth it. 

—
This is my favorite part and the main point:
—

He would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money.”
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How Elon Musk thinks about money: “Elon would always be at work on Sunday, and we had some chats where he laid out his philosophy. He would say that everything we did was a function of our burn rate and that we were burning through a hundred thousand dollars per day. It was this very entrepreneurial, Silicon Valley way of thinking that none of the aerospace engineers in Los Angeles were dialed into. Sometimes he wouldn’t let you buy a part for two thousand dollars because he expected you to find it cheaper or invent something cheaper. Other times, he wouldn’t flinch at renting a plane for ninety thousand dollars to get something to Kwaj because it saved an entire workday, so it was worth it. — This is my favorite part and the main point: — He would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money.”
If you put David Goggins, Richard Feynman and Napoleon together you get Elon Musk

"He's David Goggins' level intensity, he's Richard Feynman's level of unconventional technical brilliance, and he's Napoleon's strategic genius and insane bias to action.

Those three traits combined make him just incredibly singular.

Even if you put in this amount of time trying to know your business from A to Z, without that deep technical intuition or sense of the fundamentals of the physics and the materials, you couldn't make the calls that he's making.

The founder is the guardian of the company's soul."

— Eric Jorgenson (@erjorgenson)
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If you put David Goggins, Richard Feynman and Napoleon together you get Elon Musk "He's David Goggins' level intensity, he's Richard Feynman's level of unconventional technical brilliance, and he's Napoleon's strategic genius and insane bias to action. Those three traits combined make him just incredibly singular. Even if you put in this amount of time trying to know your business from A to Z, without that deep technical intuition or sense of the fundamentals of the physics and the materials, you couldn't make the calls that he's making. The founder is the guardian of the company's soul." — Eric Jorgenson (@erjorgenson)
Michael Ovitz. Co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Now live everywhere you get podcasts.

@michaelovitz
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Michael Ovitz. Co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Now live everywhere you get podcasts. @michaelovitz
NEW podcast episode is up! 

David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: 

Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders and Investors

(Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don’t Know But Should)

Please enjoy! 🙌

cc: 

@davidsenra
 
@FoundersPodcast
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NEW podcast episode is up! David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders and Investors (Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don’t Know But Should) Please enjoy! 🙌 cc: @davidsenra @FoundersPodcast
Marc Andreessen on @zuck 

“When Mark started Facebook he had never had a job before. Not only had he not managed people, he had not worked for anybody. 

So he started with zero and his learning curve —which by the way happened fully in the public eye —his learning curve was vertical. 

And by the way, it’s still vertical. He spends an enormous amount of time learning how to become better at running these things at large scale. 

He’s still the founder and he’s still the innovator, and he’s still a fountain of ideas on what to do. 

He’s the classic example of the double threat. 

And then what happens is other founders look at that and they’re like: Oh, I could do that too.”
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Marc Andreessen on @zuck “When Mark started Facebook he had never had a job before. Not only had he not managed people, he had not worked for anybody. So he started with zero and his learning curve —which by the way happened fully in the public eye —his learning curve was vertical. And by the way, it’s still vertical. He spends an enormous amount of time learning how to become better at running these things at large scale. He’s still the founder and he’s still the innovator, and he’s still a fountain of ideas on what to do. He’s the classic example of the double threat. And then what happens is other founders look at that and they’re like: Oh, I could do that too.”
"When it's a passion or an obsession, there's no end to it." —@MichaelDell
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"When it's a passion or an obsession, there's no end to it." —@MichaelDell
“Don’t do anything that someone else can do.” — Edwin Land 

cc: 

@FoundersPodcast
 
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“Don’t do anything that someone else can do.” — Edwin Land cc: @FoundersPodcast @davidsenra
“Peter Thiel says, you have to be contrarian but right to be an entrepreneur.

So, you have to be comfortable looking stupid for a long time.

When I was calling those banks and saying, “Hey, we’re a crypto company. We want to do this,” they would hang up on me.

Or I’d go pitch the 30th venture investor and get a no.

Or the thousandth employee we tried to hire or whatever.

We’re willing to be misunderstood for a long time.

And then you slowly start to have these breakthroughs.

If you look at Uber, they were fighting for a decade to just be like, yeah, it’s actually better and safer than a cab — and the entrenched interests were fighting them.

Or Airbnb with the hotels.

Self-driving cars.

Everything that’s truly innovative and breakthrough is going to upset an entrenched incumbent, eventually intersect with the government, and just piss off some segment of the population who are like... 

“How dare you question the status quo.”

— @brian_armstrong
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“Peter Thiel says, you have to be contrarian but right to be an entrepreneur. So, you have to be comfortable looking stupid for a long time. When I was calling those banks and saying, “Hey, we’re a crypto company. We want to do this,” they would hang up on me. Or I’d go pitch the 30th venture investor and get a no. Or the thousandth employee we tried to hire or whatever. We’re willing to be misunderstood for a long time. And then you slowly start to have these breakthroughs. If you look at Uber, they were fighting for a decade to just be like, yeah, it’s actually better and safer than a cab — and the entrenched interests were fighting them. Or Airbnb with the hotels. Self-driving cars. Everything that’s truly innovative and breakthrough is going to upset an entrenched incumbent, eventually intersect with the government, and just piss off some segment of the population who are like... “How dare you question the status quo.” — @brian_armstrong
Marc Andreessen’s top takeaways from his podcast episode with David Senra.

The 1hr 49min conversation covers Marc’s history before he co-founded a16z and the experiences that shaped everything he believes about founding, building, and management today.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Marc Andreessen’s top takeaways from his podcast episode with David Senra. The 1hr 49min conversation covers Marc’s history before he co-founded a16z and the experiences that shaped everything he believes about founding, building, and management today.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Michael Dell’s warning to entrepreneurs: 

“You’re not going to be taken out by competition. You’re going to sabotage yourself.”

@davidsenra 
 
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Michael Dell’s warning to entrepreneurs: “You’re not going to be taken out by competition. You’re going to sabotage yourself.” @davidsenra @founderspodcast
Dana White on the importance of blocking out negativity:

 There’s this Bruce Lee quote: 

“Don’t speak negatively about yourself. Your body doesn’t know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.” 

If you just sit around and talk about your fucking problems all the time it actually makes it worse. 

I never take in any negativity. 

I literally block it out. 

I block all the noise out. 

Like these guys who report on what we’re doing that have no clue on what we’re doing? 

Why would I want to hear anything they have to say?

They’re zeroes. 

They’ve literally never done anything in their life, especially in this business. 

Why would I listen to anything that they have to say?”
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Dana White on the importance of blocking out negativity: There’s this Bruce Lee quote: “Don’t speak negatively about yourself. Your body doesn’t know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.” If you just sit around and talk about your fucking problems all the time it actually makes it worse. I never take in any negativity. I literally block it out. I block all the noise out. Like these guys who report on what we’re doing that have no clue on what we’re doing? Why would I want to hear anything they have to say? They’re zeroes. They’ve literally never done anything in their life, especially in this business. Why would I listen to anything that they have to say?”
Nike nailed it: Just do it. @michaeldell built a $100B+ company doing exactly that.
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Nike nailed it: Just do it. @michaeldell built a $100B+ company doing exactly that.
Everything is difficult. If you’re going to do something important it’s going to take you a decade or more to have an impact. You might as well pick something you care about. 

Pick the really big thing. 

It’s always bothered me when I talked to entrepreneurs and they tell me about the thing they are working on and I ask: What do you really want to do? 

And they say well the big thing I want to do is this. But in their mind it’s a little too ambitious, it’s a little too difficult, they need more capital….

You should just go for that now. You might as well work on the thing that will have a major impact if it works now.
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Everything is difficult. If you’re going to do something important it’s going to take you a decade or more to have an impact. You might as well pick something you care about. Pick the really big thing. It’s always bothered me when I talked to entrepreneurs and they tell me about the thing they are working on and I ask: What do you really want to do? And they say well the big thing I want to do is this. But in their mind it’s a little too ambitious, it’s a little too difficult, they need more capital…. You should just go for that now. You might as well work on the thing that will have a major impact if it works now.
Telling @danawhite about @toddgraves and his $20 billion chicken finger dream: 

“You two are a lot alike. You both get motivation from other people telling you you’re going to fail, you both think entrepreneurs should take more risk, and you both were put this earth to do exactly what you’re doing.”
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Telling @danawhite about @toddgraves and his $20 billion chicken finger dream: “You two are a lot alike. You both get motivation from other people telling you you’re going to fail, you both think entrepreneurs should take more risk, and you both were put this earth to do exactly what you’re doing.”

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David Senra (@davidsenra) has 34.9K Instagram followers with a 2.88% engagement rate over the past 12 months. Across 147 posts, David Senra received 477K total likes and 15.6M impressions, averaging 3.25K likes per post. This page tracks David Senra's performance metrics, top content, and engagement trends — updated daily.

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