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#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

Lex Fridman Podcast

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I Don't Want to Finish a Man's Story.

She publishes Anthem and then she starts and she's doing okay in Hollywood. Then she starts on her on the book, The Fountainhead. She sends it to publishers and publisher after publisher after publisher, turn it down. It takes 12 publishers before this editor reads it and says, I want to publish this book. And he basically tells his bosses, if you don't publish this book, I'm leaving. So they publish just a few copies, they don't do a mat. And the book becomes a bestseller from Word of Mouth. They land up having to publish more and more and more. This is an American author. If you read The Fountainhead, it's not Russian.

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