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Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors
Kagle gently cautioned Beirne: “We all have our blind spots, right? Our greatest strength is our greatest weakness. And I think in this case, Dave, we’re all conscious of the fact that there’s a lot of marquee players around this thing. You’re all about marquee players. So we need to make sure that you’re not getting too colored by that relative to
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Dan Callahan • Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors
Is this person so good that you would happily work for them? Can this person get you where you need to be way faster than any reasonable person could? When this person disagrees with you, do you think it will be as likely you are wrong as they are wrong?
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Sam had no talent for coding—the two closest friends he’d made at MIT were both coders, but he still couldn’t tell a good coder from a bad coder. About trading all he knew was that he was not obviously unqualified to do it. He dropped his résumé with the firms looking for traders. It still felt like a lark. “Someone told me that a lot of physics ma
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Recently, he had read an investment bible by the Fidelity fund manager Peter Lynch that described how to identify potential 10x bets. “Stalking the Tenbagger,” Lynch called this process.[18] The way Lynch explained things, if you liked a stock but other professional investors did not own it, this was a good sign; when the others woke up, their enth
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