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Daniel Scrivner

Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner: Read the Essays That Launched a $1.5B AI Fund Backed by Stripe’s Collison Brothers
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 16, 2025 • Book Summaries • Leopold Aschenbrenner • Situational Awareness
12 min read
The 11 Laws of Showrunning: Javier Grillo-Marxuach's Essay on Why Your Creative Process Is Killing Your TV Show
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Creativity • Leadership
52 min read
Inside MrBeast's $100 Million Content Machine: The Production Handbook That Built YouTube's Biggest Channel
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • MrBeast
43 min read
Valve Employee Handbook: The Anti-Management Manifesto From the World's Most Profitable Per-Employee Game Company
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Valve • Leadership
39 min read
The Duolingo Handbook: How a Green Owl Built a $7 Billion Empire by Being Unhinged
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Duolingo • Differentiation Strategy
21 min read
Renaissance Technologies: Breaking down Renaissance's quantitative model, returns, Medallion Fund economics, moat, culture, and origin story. Plus lessons learned from Jim Simons.
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Business Breakdowns • Renaissance Technologies • Jim Simons
16 min read
Hermès: Breaking down the Hermès business model, moat, margins, culture, origin story, and journey to a €230B luxury empire.
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Business Breakdowns • Hermès • Axel Dumas
9 min read
Sol Price Retail Revolutionary: How a misfit lawyer accidentally invented modern retail and taught everyone from Sam Walton to Jeff Bezos and James Sinegal
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Business Models • Strategy
21 min read
IKEA: Breaking down IKEA's business model, strategic moat, economics, culture, origin story, and journey to €100 billion
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Business Breakdowns • IKEA • Ingvar Kamprad
17 min read
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs: The hard won lessons from building 7 multi-billion dollar businesses
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Brad Jacobs • Leadership
11 min read
Pride in Performance by Les Schwab: How an 8th grade dropout built a 500-store tire dynasty by sharing half the profits
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Book Summaries • Founder Stories & Interviews • Les Schwab
20 min read
Epic Systems: Breaking down Epic's business model, strategic moat, economics, culture, origin story, and journey to a $45 billion monopoly
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Daniel Scrivner
Daniel Scrivner
Sharing what I learn studying history's greatest entrepreneurs and investors. Explore the best books, speeches, interviews, and letters with me.

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Aug 15, 2025 • Business Breakdowns • Epic Systems • Judy Faulkner

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