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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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0:33.1 | This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan. Hi, everybody. And today what I'm thinking of as |
0:37.4 | the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at this organization, |
0:40.7 | because in part it's going to be the origin story of this program, Open to Debate, |
0:44.6 | how we came to be, why we came to be. |
0:47.6 | And we are doing that by having, as my sole guest, |
0:50.6 | the man who both founded and first funded us, Robert Rosencrantz. To be complete about this, |
0:56.0 | Robert Rosencrantz is the chairman of Open to Debate, and he provides generous major funding |
1:00.1 | to open to debate through the Rosencrantz Foundation. The timing for this conversation being |
1:04.6 | just about perfect, because Robert Rosencrantz is just coming out with a great book, a book I have |
1:09.9 | now read multiple times already. Its title is |
1:12.5 | The Stoic Capitalist, Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious. It's a book of advice he wants to put out there for others |
1:19.8 | on how to create and make the best of the opportunities within your grasp. He has not only been |
1:25.6 | thinking about what he would like to say to the next |
1:27.6 | generation or the ones that follow that, about how to do that, but how best to communicate |
1:31.8 | the precepts that he has tried to live by. And in doing that, he decided that a book would be the |
1:36.3 | way. And so that's what he's done. I am now going to welcome the Stoic capitalist himself to his first |
1:42.3 | interview appearance on this program. Robert Rosencrantz. |
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