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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Oil and commodity fortunes

Industrialists and tycoons

Fortunes made in oil, mining, cotton, bananas and commodity trading.

Books 8Recommenders 7

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  1. The Fish That Ate the WhaleRich Cohen, 2012
  2. The Big ScoreJacquie McNish, 1998
  3. Taking On the TrustSteve Weinberg, 2008
  4. The Big RichBryan Burrough, 2009
  5. The King of OilDaniel Ammann, 2009
The Fish That Ate the WhaleThe Fish That Ate the Whale
T2 The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Samuel Zemurray rose from selling ripe bananas to taking over United Fruit.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Andrew Wilkinson and 3 others

The Big ScoreThe Big Score
T3 The Big Score
Jacquie McNish · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay nickel discovery.

Taking On the TrustTaking On the Trust
T3 Taking On the Trust
Steve Weinberg · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller, and the collision between the two.

The Big RichThe Big Rich
T3 The Big Rich
Bryan Burrough · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

The rise and fall of the Texas oil fortunes, the Hunts among them.

The King of OilThe King of Oil
T3 The King of Oil
Daniel Ammann · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Marc Rich, the founder of modern commodity trading.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Gina RinehartGina Rinehart
T3 Gina Rinehart
Adele Ferguson · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Gina Rinehart's iron ore fortune, its royalties and the family's control of it.

How to be RichHow to be Rich
T4 How to be Rich
J. Paul Getty · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The King Of California: J. G. Boswell and thThe King Of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
T4 The King Of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

J. G. Boswell and the secret farming empire he ran in the heart of California.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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