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Founders: The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea

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What I learned from reading Copy This!: How I turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 square feet into a company called Kinkos by Paul Orfalea. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Follow Invest Like The Best in your favorite podcast player here Two episodes I recommend: Paul Orfalea - It's About the Money episode 299 David Senra - Passion & Pain episode 292 [5:23] I've never met a more circular, out-of-the-box thinker. It's often exhausting trying to keep up with him. [6:21] I graduated from high school eighth from the bottom of my class of 1,200. Frankly, I still have no idea how those seven kids managed to do worse than I did. [9:29] I also have no mechanical ability to speak of. There isn't a machine at Kinko's I can operate. I could barely run the first copier we leased back in 1970. It didn't matter. All I knew was that was I could sell what came out of it. [11:24] Building an entirely new sort of business from a single Xerox copy machine gave me the life the world seemed determined to deny me when I was younger. [14:04] The A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the

[00:00:00] I originally made this podcast 565 days ago, and I wanted to republish it as a bonus episode for two reasons. The first reason is I think that you're going to find Paul's life story inspiring. He goes from people telling him that he's dumb when he's young because he can't read because he's dyslexic, from graduating at the bottom of his class in high school to being a billionaire. And I think you'll find a lot of his ideas both counterintuitive and valuable. The second reason I wanted to [00:00:25] publish this episode again is because I wanted to tell you about this fantastic…

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