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Founders podcast host David Senra joins Patrick O'Shaughnessy to discuss the patterns he's identified across 300+ founder biographies. They connect founder patterns to investing patterns, finding that the traits of great founders mirror the traits of great investors.
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Canon
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Senra and O'Shaughnessy converge on the biographies-as-mentors Canon: the patterns of greatness (obsession, patience, contrarian thinking) appear so consistently across founder and investor biographies that reading them is the closest thing to a 'cheat code' for professional success.
Highlights
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The three traits shared by great founders and great investors: obsessive focus, high tolerance for being wrong in the short term, and thinking in decades instead of quarters
Senra and O'Shaughnessy identify the overlap: both great founders (Bezos, Jobs, Buffett) and great investors (Buffett, Munger, Marks) share obsessive focus on a narrow domain, willingness to look wrong for years, and time horizons measured in decades.Was this useful?