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Founders: #423 Soichiro Honda

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What I learned from reading Honda: The Man and His Machines by Sol Sanders. Made possible by: Ramp: ⁠https://ramp.com⁠ Applovin: ⁠https://www.applovin.com/⁠ Vanta: ⁠https://vanta.com/founders

[00:00] A: I wanted to read a biography of Soichiro Honda after James Dyson wrote about the impact that Honda had on his career. The key lesson that James Dyson took from studying Honda was this framework that Dyson actually used throughout his career. And it was pretty straightforward. It was take an existing product, notice what's bad, clumsy, overcomplicated, or even ignored about that existing product, improve it obsessively and continuously. And you do this by making the product simpler and more pleasurable to use. Then you retain enough control of your company to keep improving the…

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