Compilations
Excerpt from my compilations page:
“nanos gigantum humeris insidentes”
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a number of the Giants whose shoulders I stand upon. All of them made a lasting impact.
Stan Druckenmiller once told me that the best way to understand an industry is to look at every company in it. I’ve found that this (mostly) works for people too. To understand people, read everything they’ve ever published, and listen to every talk they’ve ever given. As I did this, my friends started to ask what I was reading.
After meeting Peter Kaufman, I sent him a write-up of our meeting. He wrote back, encouraging me to continue to write things up, that it was exactly the right thing to do: to write everything up and to organize them. He collected his writings and notes in binders. I’m collecting mine here.
All Compilations, Categorized, Here.
Select Compilations
Special Editions:
Lu Li, Himalaya Capital
Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ho Nam, Altos Ventures
Sarah Tavel, Benchmark/Greylock/Bessemer
Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital
Venture Investors:
Marc Andreessen, a16z/Ning/Netscape/Mosaic
Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital
Ben Horowitz*, a16z
Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures/Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures/Kleiner Perkins
Mitch Lasky, Benchmark Capital
Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners
Michael Moritz, Sequoia
Naval Ravikant, AngelList
Danny Rimer, Index Ventures
Chris Sacca, Lowercarbon/Lowercase
Sheel Tyle, Amplo/NEA/Bessemer
Peter Thiel, Founders Fund
Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital
Fred Wilson*, Union Square Ventures
Enterprise Operators:
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan
Lou Gerstner, IBM
Andy Grove and Gordon Moore ft. Arthur Rock and Bob Noyce, Intel
John Malone, Liberty Media
Fred Smith ft. Jim Barksdale, FedEx
Jack Welch, General Electric
Dieter Zetsche, Daimler
Consumer/Retail Operators:
Bernard Arnault, LVMH
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus, Home Depot
Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks/Broadcast.com
Fabrizio Freda ft. Bill and Leonard Lauder, Estée Lauder
Phil Knight, Nike
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
Howard Schultz, Starbucks
Jim Sinegal, Costco Wholesale
Sam Walton, Walmart
Biotech CEOs:
Arthur Levinson, Genentech
Lars Sorensen, Novo Nordisk
P. Roy Vagelos, Merck/Regeneron
Creative CEOs:
Reed Hastings, Netflix
Brian Goldner, Hasbro
Bob Iger, Disney
Steve Jobs, Apple/Pixar
Technical CEOs:
Sam Altman, Y Combinator/OpenAI
Marc Benioff, Salesforce
Sergey Brin and Larry Page ft. Satya Nadella, Google/Alphabet
Morris Chang, Taiwan Semiconductor
Jack Dorsey, Square/Twitter
Bill Gates, Microsoft
Jensen Huang, Nvidia
Elon Musk, SpaceX/Tesla/Hyperloop/Neuralink
Pierre Omidyar ft. Meg Whitman and John Donahoe, eBay
China Operators
Huateng (Pony) Ma, Tencent
Yun (Jack) Ma ft. David Wei and Daniel Zhang, Alibaba
Private Equity Investors:
Mark Leonard (Letters), Constellation Software
Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Group
Value Investors:
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway
Michael Burry*, Scion Capital
Joel Greenblatt*, Gotham Funds
Bruce Greenwald*, Columbia University
Seth Klarman*, Baupost Group
Peter Lynch*, Fidelity
Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital
Michael Mauboussin, Counterpoint Global/Credit Suisse
Bill Miller, Miller Value Partners/Legg Mason Capital
Charlie Munger*, Berkshire Hathaway
Activist Investors:
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital
Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises
Dan Loeb, Third Point Capital
Yahoo! Activism, Carl Icahn, Dan Loeb, Jeff Smith, David Sambur, Eric Jackson
Macro Traders:
George Soros, Soros Fund Management/Quantum Fund
Growth Equity Investors:
Mary Meeker, Bond Capital/Kleiner Perkins