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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Private equity

Business models

Leveraged buyouts as an ownership model; the literature moved from deal drama in the 1980s to institutional critique after 2010.

Books 15Experts 2Recommenders 12

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  1. Barbarians at the GateBryan Burrough, John Helyar, 1989
  2. King of CapitalDavid Carey, John E. Morris, 2010
  3. What It TakesStephen A. Schwarzman, 2019
Barbarians at the GateBarbarians at the Gate
T1 Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1988 bidding war for RJR Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout to that date.

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other

King of CapitalKing of Capital
T1 King of Capital
David Carey, John E. Morris · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Blackstone from its 1985 founding through its 2007 public offering and the crisis.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging ofMerchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
T2 Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
George Anders · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

KKR from 1976 through the RJR Nabisco buyout, and what debt did to its companies.

Private Equity at WorkPrivate Equity at Work
T2 Private Equity at Work
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

What private equity does to companies, workers and investor returns, critically.

Play Nice But WinPlay Nice But Win
T2 Play Nice But Win
Michael Dell · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Dell's founder on the buyout, the Icahn fight and VMware

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and 6 others

These Are the PlunderersThese Are the Plunderers
T2 These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Case studies of extraction from acquired companies.

Creating Value Through Corporate RestructuriCreating Value Through Corporate Restructuring
T3 Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring
Stuart C. Gilson · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Harvard case studies in bankruptcy and workout situations.

The Buyout of AmericaThe Buyout of America
T3 The Buyout of America
Josh Kosman · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Critical account of leverage and portfolio company outcomes across the big firms.

What It TakesWhat It Takes
T3 What It Takes
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.

Recommended by: Ezra Klein

Going Public
T3 Going Public
Dakin Campbell · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

On direct listings and the alternatives to the traditional IPO, SPACs included.

The Caesars Palace Coup
T3 The Caesars Palace Coup
Sujeet Indap, Max Frumes · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Modern creditor-on-creditor warfare told as narrative.

Two and TwentyTwo and Twenty
T3 Two and Twenty
Sachin Khajuria · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Practitioner insider on how a modern buyout firm actually earns.

PlunderPlunder
T3 Plunder
Brendan Ballou · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

The prosecutorial case against the industry KKR created; read as counterweight.

Corporate Ownership in France
T4 Corporate Ownership in France
Antoin E. Murphy · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Cross-holdings, the state and who actually controls French companies.

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged BuyInvestment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions
T4 Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions
Joshua Rosenbaum · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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