Founders: #327 Ted Turner

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What I learned from reading Ted Turner's Autobiography. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Listen to Art of Investing #4 David Senra Lessons from the Founder Historian. ---- (9:00) My net worth dropped by about 67 million per week, or nearly 10 million per day, every day for two and a half years. (10:00) Once to drive home a point about the difficulties of attracting good loyal employees he told me: Jesus only had to pick 12 disciples and even one of those didn't turn out well. (10:00) Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise . (11:00) Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Founders #141) (13:30) The problem isn't getting rich, it's staying sane. — Charlie Munger (17:00) I learned a lesson that would stick with me throughout my career. When the chips are down in the pressure's on it's amazing to how creative people can be. (20:00) My father always maintained many of the different billboard businesses as separate legal entities. (He didn’t want to dilute ownership of his main company and separate entities allowed for periodic reorganization to off

[00:00:00] Okay, so two quick things before we jump into this unbelievable episode on Ted Turner. I think the intro to this podcast is one of, frankly, just one of the most shocking intros that I've ever done. And it kind of sets the tone for Ted's just incredible, you know, multi-decade long career. The first thing I want to talk to you about is I was invited to fly to Notre Dame to actually speak to a class called The Art of Investing. That class was actually recorded and turned into a podcast. So whatever podcast player you're listening to this on, if you don't mind going and searching…

Founders: #327 Ted Turner

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