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John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

David Freeman Hawke

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This book by David Freeman Hawke came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: David Senra. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders

“the best Rockefeller biography I've ever read”
“It's called John D. The Founding Fathers of Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke. Better writer than a Titan, I guess. Yes. 250 page instead of 800, but all about what you really want to know.”— David Senra

The guest here is David Senra: Host of the Founders podcast, who reads and breaks down biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs; launching a new interview show on Patrick O'Shaughnessy's Colossus network. David Senra explains how studying 400+ entrepreneur biographies revealed the patterns, archetypes, and obsessions that separate extreme winners.

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