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David Franklin

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The Decisions That Made Marc Andreessen Successful

Jun 16, 2026

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9 min read

The Decisions That Made Marc Andreessen Successful

A practical breakdown of Marc Andreessen’s biggest inflection points and the specific lessons founders and investors can apply to startups today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Leisure

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The Decisions That Made Conrad Hilton Successful

Jun 8, 2026

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10 min read

The Decisions That Made Conrad Hilton Successful

Conrad Hilton turned a mistake purchase of a small Texas hotel into a global Hilton empire, and this article breaks down the five key inflection moments and practical lessons founders and investors can learn from his journey.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Media

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The Decisions That Made William Randolph Hearst Successful

Jun 1, 2026

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8 min read

The Decisions That Made William Randolph Hearst Successful

This article breaks down how William Randolph Hearst built and nearly lost the first great American media empire, and what his biggest inflection moments teach about risk, leverage, and ambition today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Decisions That Made Jony Ive Successful

May 20, 2026

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8 min read

The Decisions That Made Jony Ive Successful

Learn the key lessons from Jony Ive’s career, including his design philosophy, biggest decisions, and five inflection moments that shaped Apple and modern product building.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Investors

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The Decisions That Made Stephen Schwarzman Successful

May 11, 2026

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8 min read

The Decisions That Made Stephen Schwarzman Successful

Discover how Stephen Schwarzman went from a Philadelphia shop to building Blackstone into a trillion‐dollar investment giant, and what founders and investors can learn from his biggest inflection moments and risk decisions.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Decisions That Made Tony Hsieh Successful

May 4, 2026

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9 min read

The Decisions That Made Tony Hsieh Successful

Tony Hsieh, the founder who turned Zappos into a $1B customer-obsessed culture company, offers founders practical lessons on risk, company culture, customer service, and building businesses that deliver happiness.

David Franklin
David Franklin

SaaS

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The Decisions That Made Dario Amodei Successful

Apr 27, 2026

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10 min read

The Decisions That Made Dario Amodei Successful

A practical breakdown of Dario Amodei’s journey from physicist to Anthropic co-founder, highlighting the key inflection points, scaling bets, and safety decisions that shaped modern AI for founders and investors.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Tech Hardware

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The Decisions That Made Andy Grove Successful

Apr 27, 2026

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9 min read

The Decisions That Made Andy Grove Successful

A deep-dive on Andy Grove’s biggest strategic inflection points and the practical lessons founders, entrepreneurs, and investors can use to navigate market shifts, hard pivots, and high-stakes decisions today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Decisions That Made Bernard Arnault Successful

Apr 6, 2026

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14 min read

The Decisions That Made Bernard Arnault Successful

Learn how Bernard Arnault built LVMH into the world’s leading luxury empire through five key inflection moments, and what practical lessons founders and investors can apply to strategy, acquisitions, and long-term brand building today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Decisions That Made Ingvar Kamprad Successful

Mar 30, 2026

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14 min read

The Decisions That Made Ingvar Kamprad Successful

A deep-dive into Ingvar Kamprad’s decision-making playbook, showing how the IKEA founder turned childhood scarcity, flat-pack innovation, and an industry boycott into durable advantages that modern founders and investors can apply today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Media

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The Decisions That Made Jeff Bezos Successful

Mar 30, 2026

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16 min read

The Decisions That Made Jeff Bezos Successful

Learn the frameworks Jeff Bezos used to make high-stakes decisions that turned a risky online bookstore into a generation-defining company, and what founders can copy from those inflection moments.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Sam Walton Successful

Mar 16, 2026

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15 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Sam Walton Successful

Learn how Sam Walton built Walmart from small-town discount stores into the world’s largest retailer, and what founders today can copy from his mindset, systems, and inflection-point decisions.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Jim Sinegal Successful

Mar 9, 2026

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16 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Jim Sinegal Successful

Learn how Costco founder Jim Sinegal used strict price caps, obsessive customer trust, and high-wage retail jobs to build a $400B company that founders, entrepreneurs, and investors still study for long-term business lessons today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Decisions That Made Sol Price Successful

Mar 2, 2026

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13 min read

The Decisions That Made Sol Price Successful

Learn how Sol Price, the founder of FedMart and Price Club who inspired Costco, Sam’s Club, and modern warehouse retail, made five crucial decisions that changed retail strategy and offer practical lessons for today’s founders and investors.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Ray Kroc Successful

Feb 23, 2026

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20 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Ray Kroc Successful

A practical breakdown of Ray Kroc’s late-blooming journey from struggling salesman to McDonald’s architect, focused on the key inflection moments, decisions, and playbook founders and investors can use to scale durable businesses today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Ralph Lauren Successful

Feb 16, 2026

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21 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Ralph Lauren Successful

Ralph Lauren’s founder story shows how a poor kid from the Bronx built a global luxury brand by saying no to bad deals, obsessing over world-building, and protecting his brand through every inflection point in his career.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Media

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The Key Decisions That Made Jimmy Iovine Successful

Feb 9, 2026

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14 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Jimmy Iovine Successful

Learn how Jimmy Iovine went from sweeping studio floors to co-founding Interscope Records and Beats by Dre, and the specific big-picture decisions founders and investors can apply to their own companies today.

David Franklin
David Franklin

SaaS

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The Key Decisions That Made Evan Spiegel Successful

Feb 2, 2026

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17 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Evan Spiegel Successful

This article explores Evan Spiegel’s journey as the co-founder of Snapchat, from ousting a co-founder and turning down Facebook’s $3 billion offer to surviving a redesign disaster, offering practical lessons for entrepreneurs and investors.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Sara Blakely Successful

Jan 26, 2026

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19 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Sara Blakely Successful

This article breaks down how Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, turned $5,000 in savings, a simple pantyhose hack, and relentless intuition into a billion-dollar, bootstrapped brand that teaches founders to rethink failure, funding, and product intuition.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Media

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The Decisions That Made Sir Richard Branson Successful

Jan 22, 2026

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32 min read

The Decisions That Made Sir Richard Branson Successful

This article is a practical breakdown of Richard Branson’s biggest inflection points, decisions, and mental models, written for founders and investors who want concrete, reusable lessons on risk, branding, and building enduring companies.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Kylie Jenner Successful

Jan 12, 2026

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30 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Kylie Jenner Successful

This article is a deep dive into Kylie Jenner’s journey and unpacks takeaways for founders to apply in their own business. In particular the article explores how she built, scaled, and sold Kylie Cosmetics using audience-first strategy, intentional scarcity, and perfectly timed partnerships.

David Franklin
David Franklin

SaaS

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The Key Decisions That Made Sam Altman Successful

Jan 5, 2026

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31 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Sam Altman Successful

This article is a deep dive into Sam Altman's five key inflection points, showing how his decisions at Loopt, Y Combinator, and OpenAI shaped ChatGPT and offering practical lessons founders and investors can apply today.

David Franklin
David Franklin
The Key Decisions That Made David Goggins Successful

Jan 3, 2026

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20 min read

The Key Decisions That Made David Goggins Successful

This article is a practical breakdown of David Goggins’ five biggest turning points and mental frameworks for resilience, showing founders, entrepreneurs, and investors how to turn adversity into a real competitive advantage.

David Franklin
David Franklin

SaaS

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The Key Decisions That Made Brian Chesky Successful

Dec 22, 2025

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19 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Brian Chesky Successful

This article reveals the essential inflection moments, practical lessons, and leadership insights from Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky’s journey, designed to help founders and investors learn how breakthrough companies are truly built.

David Franklin
David Franklin

Consumer Goods

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The Key Decisions That Made Sir James Dyson Successful

Dec 15, 2025

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24 min read

The Key Decisions That Made Sir James Dyson Successful

This article uncovers the key lessons, pivotal decisions, and business strategies that shaped James Dyson’s journey from thousands of failures to industry-defining innovation: essentials every founder, entrepreneur, and investor should know.

David Franklin
David Franklin
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