Driven: An Autobiography
, subject: Larry Miller's life, businesses, Utah Jazz ownership, and regrets about family and health, 2010
Larry Miller’s pursuit of excellence sits beside his later reckoning with what long work hours cost his family and health.
About the book
The autobiography follows Miller's appetite for work, rapid dealmaking, and operating discipline while confronting the costs that relentless expansion imposed on his health and family.
Why read it
Best if you are a founder weighing faster execution and autonomy for strong hires alongside the time work takes from family and health.
Key themes
- Question accepted timelines
- Give strong hires room to lead
- Success cannot return lost time
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #168, #170, #192, #294, #327, #329, #330, #331, #345, #352, #354
episode #354 reuses discussion from episode #352. For each evidence type, the strongest qualifying component counts once per discussion. Source publication and scoring origin are separate.
This record is supported by 36 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) — David introduces this as the book the episode is built around.
- Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising) — David points back to Episode 168 and applies Larry Miller's time-and-motion learning practice.
- Jim Casey (Founder of UPS) — David identifies Episode 168 as Larry Miller's autobiography and uses its route and time-and-motion example.
- Napoleon — David identifies Larry Miller's book as episode 168.
- Ted Turner — David uses Larry Miller's account of hiring Jerry Sloan to illustrate giving strong hires autonomy to run the function they were hired to lead.
- Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack) — David draws a hiring-autonomy founder theme from Larry Miller's account of recruiting Jerry Sloan.