The Outsiders

“that book is the outsiders written by william thorndike ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“william thorndike who wrote the exceptional book that i know that you're a big fan of sean the outsiders ”

“will's book the outsiders is one of the best business and investing books that you'll ever read ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“the other book that i used a lot of for this episode was outsiders by will thorndike ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“you know there's have you guys read the book the outsiders it's about nine different ceos and the whole thing is like they've gone from ceo to capital allocator ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“a long time friend and mentor author of the outsiders will thorndike i had the chance back in business school to spend a year with him working on a chapter of that book and thinking about what capital allocation means ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 12s

“if i go back on my investor hat and i think back to that conversation with will the reason we brought up roic is this is something i will am looking for in businesses that i make big investments in so one of the features of the businesses that i back is i want them to earn high returns on capital in the way that i define it which is a bit unique i immediately jump to okay higher better for investors and i'm curious how true that has been historically so the question is does the ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 28s

“i first spoke to will in 2017 about his excellent book the outsiders and his career in private equity ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“that's certainly the uh the will thorndike perspective right absolutely oh we should plug will's new thing here oh yeah if you like the outsiders and you liked uh our book club with will back in the day ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s

“will's book the outsiders is one of the best business and investing books that you'll find ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“it reminds me of will thorndike's book the outsiders where often you had this partnership pair at the top of the chaos person and the order person ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“someone that we have had on the lp show david do you know who that person is hamilton will thorndike will thorndike yeah i should have gotten that author of the outsiders ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s

“i'm a huge fan of the book the outsiders and this isn't the old story of pony boy and the kids in tulsa oklahoma the movie this is the outsiders about the eight grade ceos i know you know the book it's fantastic ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 12s

“with will thorndike author of the outsiders it's a famous sort of um move by media companies and other outsider ceos ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“in the book the outsiders a little bit before in acquired history when we covered espn ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“i used to send all of my ceos thorn dyke's book the outsiders ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“the most recent episode in the feed is the recording of our book club zoom with will thorndike author of the outsiders ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“value creation value capture is like in this whole dance with apple the unfortunate thing is the consumer is losing like the customer is the one that's bearing the brunt of these tech giants clashing ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 14s

“i remember the first time i read the book outsiders you've presumably read of these case studies of agents and ceos that did remarkable jobs of capital allocators ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“i was watching a video uh with william thorndyke who was the the um the author of the outsiders which is the book that i covered on founders number ninety four ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s

“and he's profiled in this book called the outsiders ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“this week's guest is will thorndyke an author and investor whose book the outsiders is an alltime favorite of mine ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“wrote this great book the outsiders and you look at a lot of those folks in there who are really smart buybackers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“a phenomenal book called the outsiders which is about unconventional ceos ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“mo many people listening will have read will thorndike's book the outsiders and and be familiar with some of these kind of general stories ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s