Transcript
Introduction
Since I studied dead entrepreneurs for a living, I get the question, out of the living entrepreneurs, who do you most admire? And a lot of the people on the list would be familiar to you. But I found that when I mentioned that one of the living entrepreneurs I most admire is this guy named Todd Graves, people, first of all, haven’t heard of him, and they’re even more surprised when I said that Todd Graves founded this quick service restaurant that serves only chicken fingers over 30 years ago. He owns over 90% of it, and his business is worth at least $10 billion.
I think Todd is a great example of one of my favorite ideas that I hear from Charlie Munger: find a simple idea and take it seriously. And so I didn’t know who Todd Graves was because there were no books written about him until I saw a clip a few years ago. Then I watched every interview I could find with him. And so for this episode, what I did is, there are two main interviews that he gave.