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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Owner-Operator and Founder-Led Investing

Investment styles

Backing managers with their own money in the business. The quantitative case sits in the Credit Suisse Family 1000 reports and Bain's founder's mentality research rather than in books.

Books 9Experts 7Recommenders 36

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  1. Sam Walton: Made in AmericaSam Walton, John Huey, 1992
  2. The OutsidersWilliam N. Thorndike, 2012
  3. Invent and WanderJeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson, 2020
The OutsidersThe Outsiders
T1 The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Eight CEOs who beat the market by allocating capital, not by running operations.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Dan Loeb, Francois Rochon and 12 others

Sam Walton: Made in AmericaSam Walton: Made in America
T2 Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton, John Huey · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.

Recommended by: David Cancel, Mohnish Pabrai, Iman Gadzhi and 3 others

Skin in the GameSkin in the Game
T2 Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 5

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ana Fabrega, Ben Horowitz and 12 others

Invent and WanderInvent and Wander
T2 Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Amazon's shareholder letters from 1997 to 2019, with speeches and interviews.

The Founder's DilemmasThe Founder's Dilemmas
T3 The Founder's Dilemmas
Noam Wasserman · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Data on 10,000 founders: co-founders, hiring, investors, control and succession.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Leo Polovets

Berkshire Beyond BuffettBerkshire Beyond Buffett
T3 Berkshire Beyond Buffett
Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Berkshire as an operating company: its subsidiaries' culture and whether it lasts.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Founder's MentalityThe Founder's Mentality
T3 The Founder's Mentality
Chris Zook, James Allen · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bain's account of what founder-led companies lose as they scale.

Dear Shareholder
T3 Dear Shareholder
Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wiley catalogue record only; no evidence the book actually reached print.

Les Schwab: Pride in PerformanceLes Schwab: Pride in Performance
T4 Les Schwab: Pride in Performance
Les Schwab · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Tire-shop founder's memoir on profit sharing and dealer economics

“If you want to read one book, read the autobiography of Les Schwab... He ran tire shops in the Midwest and made a fortune” — Charlie Munger

Source: Notes from the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, by Whitney Tilson, p. 35

Recommended by: Charlie Munger

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