Founders: #308 The Founder of Glock

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What I learned from reading Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Paul Barrett. Listen to Invest Like the Best #292 David Senra: Passion and Pain. --- Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book --- (5:22) What struck me is how his inexperience was a great advantage. He didn't assume anything about how to design a handgun because he's never designed one before. Consequently he designed the best one ever. He didn't know what was out of bounds. (8:20) Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: "That I knew nothing was my advantage.” (8:55) He began disassembling the guns, putting them back together, and noted the contrasting methods used to make them. (9:00) More on Glock’s initial research process: I started intensive studies in such a manner that I visited the Austrian patent offices for weeks examining generations of handgun in innovation. (9:10) Learning from history of a form of leverage. (10:25) Crucially, the gun should have no more than 40 parts. This is one of the most important ideas in the book. He designed a product —and a company— based on limiting the amount of moving parts. (12:00) My intention was to learn as much as possible as fast as

[00:00:00] Gaston Glock arrived in Luxembourg in July 1999 for an urgent talk with the Shell company artist Charles Ewert. Ewert picked up Glock personally at the airport. Before proceeding to their meeting, he suggested that Glock take a look at the new sports car that he had just acquired. It was parked in a garage. When they got to the garage, Ewert guided Glock down to the third underground level, where they found themselves alone. Ewert pointed out the sports car, and Glock approached on foot to take a closer look. Suddenly, a tall man stepped out of the shadows, lunging at Glock. Glock…

Founders: #308 The Founder of Glock

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