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Cover of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar · 1920
Mentioned 8 times across 6 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline8 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Samer Sarraf - Investing in the GCC: Private Equity Discipline in Public Markets
Value Investing with Legends · Mar 2026
“reading a lot of the finance books, like The Barbarians at the Gate or Myers Poker and getting excited about the world”
2025
#818: John Arnold with Dr. Peter Attia — The Greatest Energy Trader of All Time on Lessons Learned, Walking Away from Wall Street, and Reinventing Philanthropy
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2025
“And I think barbarians at the gate. Both Classic books about Wall Street”
2022
#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
Founders · Jun 2022
“there's a blurb on the t on the front of the book that is from the author. of this book called The Barbarians at the Gate”
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My First Million · Jan 2022
“Barbarians at the gate shit. Like this is like nineteen eighties like Drexel um like hostile takeover”
2021
#118 Doug Conant: Leadership With Integrity
The Knowledge Project · Aug 2021
“worked at Nabisco during the toxic leverage bioculture that prompted the book Barbarians at the Gate”
#495: David Rubenstein, Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group, on Lessons Learned, Jeff Bezos, Raising Billions of Dollars, Advising Presidents, and Sprinting to the End
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
“for those who don't know, that's a famous book. written about the R J R takeover done by KKR in nineteen eighty nine”
2020
#443: David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2020
“and the books we read were books like Barbarians of the gates and Large”
2019
Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN
Acquired · Jan 2019
“this becomes the subject of the book Barbarians at the Gate”