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Founders: #367 Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell

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[00:00] David Senra: One of the craziest things that has happened as a result of the podcast is a few years ago, I read Sam Zell's autobiography. And then I made an episode on what I learned from reading Sam Zell's autobiography. And Sam Zell listened to the episode that is about his autobiography and asked to meet me as a result. And in that autobiography, he talks about the impact that his partner Bob had on him. And here's one of the stories from his autobiography. He says, Bob was extremely frugal and watched every single nickel in our business. Bob was constantly on the lookout for…

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