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Founders: #355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview

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What I learned from reading The House of Arnault by Brad Stone and Angelina Rascouet. ---- 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. ---- Build relationships with other founders, investors, and executives at a Founders Event ---- (3:00) While other politicians were content to get their information from a scattering of newspapers, he devoured whole shelves. — Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden. (Founders #320) (7:00) Arnault had understood before anyone else that it was a true industry. — The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai. (Founders #296) (9:00) Arnault is an iron fist in an iron glove. — The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moet-Hennessy Louis Vuitton Story by Nadege Forestier and Nazanine Ravai. The public conception of Sam as a good ol’ country boy wearing a soft velvet glove misses the fact that there’s an iron fist within. — Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by

[00:00] A: I've only been able to find one biography on Bernard Arnault that's in English. That biography is over 30 years old. It is really difficult to find at any given time. You'll see it for sale on Amazon anywhere from $1,500 to over $5,000 for a copy. I covered that book last year on episode 296. And since I've read that book, I've become fascinated by Arnault. And so not only are there not many biographies on Arnault, but he does not give interviews very frequently. So I was excited when I saw that Bloomberg Businessweek actually did this long form piece called the House of Arnault.…

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