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Founders: #347 How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland

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[00:00:00] There's two things that Charlie Munger said one time that I think almost all of history's greatest entrepreneurs understood intuitively. And that's learning from history as a form of leverage. And the second thing he said was that there's ideas worth billions in a $30 history book. If you've been listening to these episodes I've been making about the filmmakers recently, like Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, this idea comes up over and over again. Both Tarantino and Spielberg actually studied Walt Disney and learned from him as well. But they would watch and rewatch old movies…

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