A journey through the lives of history’s greatest creators, uncovering timeless lessons for modern operators.
Reyburn Hendricks is the CEO of H1 Holdings and a principal at a renewable energy infrastructure fund manager in South Africa. Navigating the complexities of building high-stakes infrastructure taught him a vital lesson: the challenges founders face today are rarely unique. The blueprints to solving modern operational, cultural, and strategic hurdles have already been written by the builders who came before us.
For years, Reyburn has been an avid reader and listener, working through the biographies, business histories, and podcasts that study the lives of great founders across the ages. Over time, this deep immersion revealed an undeniable truth—there is an immense power in cross-era pattern recognition. Whether studying an industrial titan from the 19th century or a software pioneer from the 21st, the core principles of exceptional execution remain unchanged. Inspired by this body of work, Read.Build.Succeed was born.
This podcast is completely independent, unscripted, and entirely driven by editorial substance. There are no generic interviews or high-level academic theories. Instead, each episode features Reyburn breaking down a single business biography, translating raw historical narratives into actionable insights tailored directly for founders, young entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and his own senior operations staff.
Read.Build.Succeed is designed to feel less like a corporate broadcast and more like a thoughtful, personal conversation with a peer who is actively sharing what they have learned. It is an audio notebook dedicated to the art and grit of building great businesses.
