founders

Whatnot's chief product officer arguing that product management should not exist as a separate function.

The idea that companies are becoming a series of loops rather than a set of departments. Worth it for the framing even if you do not buy all of it.

Two brothers build a cooler retailers were certain nobody would pay for. A clean case of ignoring the addressable-market argument and turning out to be right.

Shopify's founder on running an AI council over his hardest decisions, and why taste and judgment get more valuable as the mechanical parts get automated.

Two men get fired at 48 and 35, go broke, and stack empty paint cans ten feet high so the shelves look full to customers. That is the first hour and it is the part I would keep.

An ownership structure — not a product — ended up the largest equity owner of most of the S&P 500, on behalf of fifty million people. If you take one thing from this, take the structure.

Munger's favourite company, and a real puzzle: the cheapest prices in American retail alongside the wealthiest customers. Most of the episode is how those two facts hold together, which is far more interesting than either one on its own.

330,000 cars in 79 years at an average of half a million dollars each. Scarcity manufactured on purpose, and the genuinely hard part is what it costs to keep holding that line when you could obviously sell more.