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Cover of The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough · 2015
Mentioned 10 times across 4 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline10 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
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The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“I liked This book on the Wright brothers”
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Jul 2026
“David McCullough, the Wright brothers. It's so good. It's so good. It's a tight history of obviously the invention of the first heavier-than-air aircraft”
2025
#385 Michael Dell
Founders · Apr 2025
“I would pick up Bright Brothers by David McCullough”
2021
#168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)
Founders · Feb 2021
“A book that I could re recommend to anybody. doing that wants to do anything hard in their life is the Wright brothers”
2020
#156 Theodore Roosevelt
Founders · Nov 2020
“it's the Wright brothers”
2019
#380: Ed Zschau — The Polymath Professor Who Changed My Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2019
“David McCullough's on the Wright brothers. Yes. A fabulous book”
#75 Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie's Partner
Founders · Jun 2019
“He did this fantastic book on the Wright Brothers”
#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
Founders · Apr 2019
“the great book by David McCullough about the Wright brothers”
2018
#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Founders · Sep 2018
“it's based on David McCullough's great book on the Ray Brothers”
#28 The Wright Brothers
Founders · Jun 2018
“So with that said, I'm gonna tell you some of the ideas I learned from reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough”