David Senra: Podcasts With Billion-Dollar Potential, What Separates Good From Great, and More

My First Million

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Episode 448: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talks with David Senra (@FoundersPodcast), Founder of Founder's podcast, about his love of podcasting, how to become a killer in business, and life lessons from successful entrepreneurs. Click here to sign up for our event in Austin, TX on Saturday April 29th: mfmpod.com/atx Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: *Founders podcast *James Dyson's autobiography * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (02:25) - What did you do before Founders? (03:55) - How big is the podcast? (10:40) - How many books do you read? (18:50) - The difference between pretty good and killers (21:00) - Can you make yourself a killer? (28:20) - Finding good industries to get into (46:20) - Lessons from meeting Sam Zell and Charlie Munger (59:20) - What is next for you? (01:17:25) - Chuck Yeager ------ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	I am probably the most optimistic person in terms of like how good business of a business
0:05.7	podcasting can be.
0:07.4	And I start talking crazy and then I have some friends that I built giant businesses on
0:12.8	the back of podcasts.
0:13.8	I was at dinner with them last week and they literally pulled me to the side and they
0:17.4	like, shut the f*** up.
0:19.5	Stop telling people, oh, this shit.
0:22.3	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:24.3	I know I could be what I want to put my all in it like no days.
0:29.2	All right, everyone.
0:31.6	Today's podcast is special.
0:33.6	The guy's name is David Senra.
0:35.8	He's got a podcast called Founders.
0:37.3	I've listened to dozens and dozens and dozens of episodes.
0:40.0	He basically breaks down different biographies that he read about business people, artists,
0:45.3	whatever.
0:46.3	Anyone who's, you know, the 1% of the 1% of their field.
0:49.3	And on the pod today, we talk about the difference between people who are like somewhat successful
0:53.1	and the people who are absolute killers and what traits they have and what the commonalities.
0:57.4	So it's super fascinating to hear from someone who's read literally three or 400 biographies
1:02.0	and studies this for a living.
1:03.6	He talks about the commonalities of these killers, whether that's UFC fighters or billionaires,
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