Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)

萨姆·泽穆雷(《吃鲸鱼的鱼》)

Founders

商务

2023-09-12

1 小时 35 分钟
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What I learned from rereading The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.

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  • Sam Zamuri, the subject of this episode may be the highest agency person that I've ever come across.

  • And that's saying a lot, because every single person that you and I study on Founders podcast is high agency.

  • The way I think about a high agency person is the world doesn't happen to them, they happen to the world.

  • I made this episode over a year ago and I wanted to republish it so you can listen to it again.

  • I think this story is that important, and I'll actually tell you what reminded me of Sam's incredible life story in a minute.

  • First, I want to tell you about eight sleep.

  • One of the most unique things about this podcast is that I know the founder of every company that advertises on founders.

  • All of them listen to founders.

  • So it makes building a relationship a lot easier.

  • And the reason I do this is because I only want sponsors of the podcast that live and breathe their product.

  • In every case, we share the same obsession for the quality of the products that we're making and the businesses that we are building.

  • And so eight sleep is one of.

  • The sponsors of this episode and the founder, Mateo and I actually live in the same city.

  • A few months after I started to use eight sleep, I randomly ran into Mateo at a restaurant.

  • I went over to say hi.

  • When I got back to my table, my friend asked me who I was talking to and I said, oh thats Matteo, the founder of eight sleep.

  • And then my friend said the funniest thing ever.

  • He replied, he goes, oh, he looks like he gets good sleep.

  • Mateo is living and breathing his product.

  • I never before I had any sleep ever, ever had the ability to change the temperature of my bed before I got an eight sleep mattress.