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if anyone's looking for an interesting podcast episode, really enjoyed this Tim Ferriss interview with James Dyson... amazing to hear how he keeps inventing and constantly finds the incumbents asleep at the wheel...

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#530: Sir James Dyson — Founder of Dyson and Master Inventor on How to Turn the Mundane into Magic

Listen to this episode from The Tim Ferriss Show on Spotify. Sir James Dyson — Founder of Dyson and Master Inventor on How to Turn the Mundane into Magic | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-...

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Agree, this is a good one. His process for isolating variables is so thorough and I love how he intuitively bakes in TAM to how he thinks about problems. I listened to this one, as well as Dyson on HIBT and the Ferris interview is more interesting.

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Dyson: James Dyson

In 1979, James Dyson had an idea for a new vacuum cleaner — one that didn't use bags. It took him five years to perfect the design, building more than 5,000 prototypes in his backyard shed. He then...

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What is really interesting about dyson is how long it took him to find an investor, met a guy in the city of london once who found startups an investor for a fee. Certainly a good concept.