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David W Cochran
@dcideas
George B. Kaiser, the driving force behind the acquisition, is far from the cult of rabid Dylandom. In an interview in his spacious office at the Kaiser-Francis Oil Company here, Mr. Kaiser, 73, made clear that he is less of an aficionado of Dylan than an appreciator of his place in American history. “I was taken by Joan Baez in college,” he said, ... See more
Ben Sisario • Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive (Published 2016)
Carlota was born in Venezuela in 1939. Her first career there was as a civil servant specialized in energy and innovation policy[34]. Later in life, she switched to academia, settling in the UK where she started to focus on the relationship between technological change and financial markets. Almost by coincidence, her only book to date, Technologic
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Ev Randle
@evrandle
By the end of that year, he was one of the most frequently mentioned analysts on Wall Street and the unlikely nemesis of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Barry Halpern
@spokhal
There are very few Level 5 investors, but Warren Buffet is certainly among them. Buffett has steadily increased his public presence over the last several decades and he was even more present in the media than usual during the 2008 financial crisis. He regularly went on CNBC and Charlie Rose to try to calm market participants and encourage Congress ... See more
Apple’s functional organization is rare, if not unique, among very large companies. It flies in the face of prevailing management theory that companies should be reorganized into divisions and business units as they become large.