Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Sebastian Mallaby

T1JournalistsThe investment industry and its firms

English journalist and author, formerly a Financial Times contributing editor and a Washington Post columnist and editorial board member.

Council on Foreign RelationsThe Washington PostFinancial TimesThe Economist

More Money Than God and The Power Law are the standard narrative histories of hedge funds and venture capital, cited far outside journalism.

6 books of their own · 23 articles

Books 6Writing 23

Start here

  1. After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa1992
  2. The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations2004
  3. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite2010
After Apartheid: The Future of South AfricaAfter Apartheid: The Future of South Africa
T4 After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa
Sebastian Mallaby · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed StatesThe World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
T4 The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Sebastian Mallaby · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

title confirmed on his CFR expert page

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the MakMore Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
T2 More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hedge funds from Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949 through Soros, Robertson and beyond.

“It's hard to imagine anyone will ever write a better book on the subject.” — Paul Graham

Source: Paul Graham on X (Apr 8, 2021)

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham, Josh Wolfe and 1 other

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of AlanThe Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
T4 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Alan Greenspan's life, and with it the making of modern finance from Nixon to Bush.

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the MakinThe Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
T1 The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Venture capital from Arthur Rock to SoftBank, and why a few big bets pay for all.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Anthony Pompliano and 4 others

The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMiThe Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
T4 The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby · 2026
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fifteen years of AI through Demis Hassabis and DeepMind, from AlphaGo to AlphaFold.

After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa–1992–
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nationstitle confirmed on his CFR expert page2004–
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New EliteHedge funds from Alfred Winslow Jones in 1949 through Soros, Robertson and beyond.2010T2Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham, Josh Wolfe and 1 others
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan's life, and with it the making of modern finance from Nixon to Bush.2016–
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New FutureVenture capital from Arthur Rock to SoftBank, and why a few big bets pay for all.2022T1Andrew Wilkinson, Anthony Pompliano, Josh Wolfe and 3 others
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for SuperintelligenceFifteen years of AI through Demis Hassabis and DeepMind, from AlphaGo to AlphaFold.2026T4–

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