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TIP 084 : Billionaire Ted Turner's Story (Business Podcast)

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: How Ted Turner built a media empire. How greed and wrong life priorities might be the cause of Ted Turner’s financial and personal downfall. Why gold is insurance rather than an investment. How Preston’s short position in bonds is going. How to implement a dollar cost averaging strategy. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Ted Turner’s book: Call Me Ted – Read reviews of this book. Preston and Stig’s Forum: The WarrenBuffettForum.com. A Tool for Dollar Cost Averaging: The Shiller P/E. Download Preston and Stig’s free Stock Investing Checklist. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. 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Transcript

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0:00.0

We study billionaires and this is episode 84 of the Investors Podcast.

0:06.0

Broadcasting from Bel Air, Maryland. This is the Investors Podcast.

0:14.0

They'll read the books and summarize the lessons. They'll test the waters and tell you what it's

0:19.0

called. They'll give you actionable investing strategies.

0:23.0

Your host Preston Pish and St. Broderson.

0:29.0

Hey, how's everybody doing out there? This is Preston Pish and I'm your host for the Investors Podcast.

0:33.0

And as usual, I'm a company by my co-host St. Broderson, out in Denmark.

0:37.0

Today we're doing a book and the name of the book was Call Me Ted.

0:41.0

And this book was written by Ted Turner, who's the wealthy billionaire who did all sorts of things,

0:47.0

which we're going to talk about here on the episode.

0:49.0

Just so everyone knows the layout of the show today, we're going to be talking about the book, Call Me Ted,

0:53.0

for the first segment of the show and then the second segment of the show.

0:56.0

We're going to answer probably about three questions from our audience.

1:00.0

For the Ted Turner book, when we go through that, what I'm going to start off doing is St.

1:04.0

and I are just going to talk about Ted Turner's history, kind of the timeline of how he created the businesses that he created.

1:10.0

And then after that, we're going to talk about the key things that we kind of learned from his experiences in his life,

1:16.0

just kind of the highlights that we kind of took away from the book.

1:18.0

So without further ado, we're going to get and kick this off and we're just going to be talking about Ted Turner.

1:22.0

So Ted Turner got his start in a, I can't say he's a hundred percent self-made because he got a start

1:30.0

and had a huge advantage. His father left him.

1:32.0

How much money did it say exactly how much?

1:34.0

Yeah, just shorter than a million dollars, I think.

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