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Founders: #362 Li Lu

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Charlie Munger said that Li Lu was the only outsider he ever trusted with his money. Decades before Li Lu made Munger half a billion dollars, Li survived one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable: Born into poverty, abandoned, hungry, beaten, surrounded by death. Persistent. Smart. Disciplined. Intensely curious. Obsessed with reading and learning. Determined to escape. This is a story you absolutely cannot miss. What I learned from reading Moving The Mountain: My life in China from the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square by Li Lu. ---- 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 and save more. ---- Build relationships with other founders, investors, and executives at a Founders Event ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. You can search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- Join my free email newsletter to get my top 1

[00:00:00] A few weeks ago, I was talking to John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods, and he told me one of the craziest things anyone has ever said about the podcast. He had listened to over 100 episodes before he met, and he told me that if founders existed when he was younger, that Whole Foods would still be an independent company. He said that since the podcast and all of History's Greatest Entrepreneurs constantly emphasize the importance of controlling your expenses, he would have put more of a priority on it, especially during good times. It is natural for a company, and I think for…

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