Hustlers, Dreamers, and Schemers
Like most people I love hustle stories about people who did everything they could to make it happen.
Real
- Alex Banayan: The Third Door
- Elliot Bisnow: Make No Small Plans and also featured in The Third Door
- Jerry Weintraub: When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead
- Elon Musk: Biography
- Steve Jobs: Biography
- Phil Knight: Shoe Dog
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall
- Everyone in: Selling Sunset (Series)
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Philipp Maximilian Scharpenack: Life the the Max
- Adam Neumann: The Cult of We, We Crashed (Series)
- Paul Le Roux: The Mastermind
- John Low: Billion Dollar Whale
- Ross Ulbricht: American Kingpin
- Elizabeth Holmes: Bad Blood, The Dropout (Series)
- Anna Sorokin: Inventing Anna (Series)
- Billy McFarland: FYRE (Series)
- Osho: Wild Wild Country (Series)
- Maximilian Schmidt: How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (Series)
- Jordan Belfort: Wolf of Wall Street (Movie)
- Joe Exotic: Tiger King (Series)
Fictional
- Everyone in: Billions (Series)
- Everyone in: Suits (Series)
- Patrick Jane: Mentalist (Series)
- Frank Underwood: House of Cards (Series)
- Ari Gold: Enourage (Series), based on real-world agent Ari Emanuel
- Don Draper: Mad Men (Series)
Written on April 21, 2022
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