Founders: #298 I had lunch with Sam Zell

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What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell and reading Zeckendorf: The Autobiography of The man Who Played a Real-Life Game of Monopoly and Won the Largest Real Estate Empire in History by William Zeckendorf. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com You can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. You can also ask SAGE any question and SAGE will read all my notes, highlights, and every transcript from every episode for you. A few questions I've asked SAGE recently: What are the most important leadership lessons from history's greatest entrepreneurs? Can you give me a summary of Warren Buffett's best ideas? (Substitute any founder covered on the podcast and you'll get a comprehensive and easy to read summary of their ideas) How did Edwin Land find new employees to hire? Any unusual sources to find talent? What are some strategies that Cornelius Vanderbilt used against his competitors? Get access to Founders Notes here. Episode Outline: [27:31] Start of episode on Zeckendorf’s autobiography [27:44] 26 years of work was now moving down the chute. [28:36] The secret of any gr

[00:00:00] Okay, so this episode is going to be a little different. What I'm going to do first is go into detail about what I learned from having a two-hour lunch with Sam Zell. He sat directly across from me for two hours. I got to stare in his eyes and hear crazy, crazy stories from his amazing, you know, more than six-decade career of being an entrepreneur. And then after that, you're going to hear a normal Founders episode where I go into detail about what I learned from reading William Zeckendorf's autobiography. And that came about because as I was talking to Sam Zell, I was like, hey,…

Founders: #298 I had lunch with Sam Zell

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