Charlie Dolan

Quiet, please! This week, PGA TOUR LIVE will introduce a new announcer-free stream, leaning into player caddie conversations, crowd reactions and natural course audio. pgatour.com/article/news/l…

The waste industry doesn't move like the rest of the market. While AI valuations run hot, waste stays grounded in hard assets, route density, and disciplined M&A. In Episode 8 of Waste Nexus, Brian and Charlie Dolan sit down with Matt Hillin of Lakeside Acquisitions to unpack the financial side of the business most operators never get a clear look at: what actually drives a hauler's valuation, why private equity is reshaping the landscape, and the regulatory and scarcity pressures pushing pricing across the value chain. Have you ever asked, "What's my company actually worth?"  Here's the answer.  Listen now: youtube.com/watch?v=Ua5TY6…

Senra represents an individual's ability to create their own audience. He built a media company through merit, not getting hired by the institution. He's favored by founders and billionaires, which are being attacked by traditional media outlets. He's west coast and loved by tech, which are threats to the pillars of NYT's influence. But moreover, their motivation is CLICKS. Attention. And, as my post shows, they know they can get it by attacking figured that other people will show up to defend. Controversy is a feature, and slandering good people for clicks is a byproduct of a system that rewards creating conflict. @balajis and @AshleyRindsberg have both written a great deal about this. Check out "The Grey Lady Winked" for a thorough investigation of NYT's long history of motivated reporting, nepotism, racism, and protectionism. Also lots about this in my second book: balajianthology.com

Let's get ahead of this one... "On David Senra" @davidsenra is a modern American icon. Born into an immigrant family with few advantages (and many challenges), he read and recorded his way into the upper echelons of business and investing. This is the free meritocratic system at its best. He started with a microphone at his kitchen table just over ten years ago. Why do founders and self-made billionaires want to listen to and be with David now? Because he has read hundreds and hundreds of books, with ferocious focus. He was reading for his life, and that made him a better reader than the rest of us. David ripped out insights and seared them into his mind, because every time he did, he changed his life a bit more. What else? He is a devoted friend. In a world of creators clamoring to trade up relationships and proximity to power, always looking up, David does the opposite. When I launched The book of @elonmusk, David bought 1,000 copies (insisting on paying) and gifted them to his listeners for free. He is shockingly generous. He buys products rather than accepting them for free. He donates huge sums of money to friends in need. He makes life-changing introductions. He teaches us everything he knows about podcasting. He gives business ideas, advice, and encouragement freely and often. He has an intense work ethic. If you're jealous of what he has, you better be jealous of what he did to get it. Six years of podcasting into an awkward silence -- losing money every month. With a wife and young child at home. When you meet people with his kind of drive and work ethic, it pushes you harder. (or, if you're weak and ashamed or out of touch with yourself, it will make you angry.) His intensity can make people uncomfortable. The truth of what it takes to build empires can be ugly. The full lives of history's heroes can be hard to look at. But David studies the history of entrepreneurship to improve his own life. Without "shoulds", without advice, and without selling a course. It's not about influencing people, moving public opinion. He has no agenda. It simply speaks to him. It IS him. He loves it, he lives it, and we are lucky to be coming along. That's why we love him, listen to him, and are loyal to him.