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Cover of The Outsiders by Will Thorndike

The Outsiders

Will Thorndike · 2018
Mentioned 25 times across 6 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline25 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
#431 How Henry Singleton Worked
Founders · Aug 2026
“That book is The Outsiders, written by William Thorndike”
TIP833: Perimeter Solutions (PRM): A Niche Monopoly, One Acquisition at a Time w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O’Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Jul 2026
“William Thorndike, who wrote the exceptional book that I know that you're a big fan of Sean, The Outsiders”
2025
50X Season Two: Asurion
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2025
“Will's book The Outsiders is one of the best business and investing books that you'll ever read”
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
The Knowledge Project · Apr 2025
“The other book that I used a lot of for this episode was Outsiders by Will Thorndike”
2024
The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
My First Million · Mar 2024
“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”
2023
Rick Buhrman & Paul Buser - Find Your X, Nurture Your N - [Invest Like the Best, EP.346]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Oct 2023
“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”
2022
Michael Mauboussin - Sharpening Investor & Executive Toolkits - [Invest Like the Best, EP.308]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Dec 2022
“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”
Will Thorndike - The Power of Long Holding Periods - [Invest Like the Best, EP.288]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Aug 2022
“I first spoke to Will in 2017 about his excellent book, The Outsiders and His Career in Private Equity”
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
Acquired · Aug 2022
“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”
TransDigm: Foundations with Nick Howley [50X, EP.1]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2022
“Will's book The Outsiders is one of the best business and investing books that you'll find”
2021
Henrique Dubugras - Building the Financial Center of Gravity – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 35]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · May 2021
“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”
Berkshire Hathaway Part I
Acquired · Apr 2021
“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”
Carlos Cashman – Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystems – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.15]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2021
“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”
2020
Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
Acquired · Dec 2020
“with Will Thorndike, author of The Outsiders. It's a famous sort of um move by media companies and other outsider CEOs”
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal of Acquired - Lessons on Early Stage Investing and Getting Acquired - [Invest Like the Best, EP.196]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Oct 2020
“in the book The Outsiders a little bit before in Acquired History when we covered ESPN”
Lauren Taylor Wolfe – The Modern Activist Toolkit - [Invest Like the Best, EP.192]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2020
“I used to send All of my CEOs Thorn Dyke's book, The Outsiders”
Special: Acquired x My First Million
Acquired · Sep 2020
“The most recent episode in the feed is the recording of our book club Zoom with Will Thorndike, author of The Outsiders”
Epic Games
Acquired · Sep 2020
“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”
John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.178]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2020
“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”
#110 Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
Founders · Feb 2020
“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”
2019
#90 Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie's Almanack)
Founders · Sep 2019
“And he's profiled in this book called The Outsiders”
[REPLAY] Will Thorndike - How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.36]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Apr 2019
“This week's guest is Will Thorndyke, an author and investor whose book The Outsiders is an all-time favorite of mine”
Michael Mauboussin – The Four Sources of Alpha - [Invest Like the Best, EP.126]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Mar 2019
“wrote this great book, The Outsiders, and you look at a lot of those folks in there who are really smart buybackers”
Season 4, Episode 1: ESPN
Acquired · Jan 2019
“a phenomenal book called The Outsiders, which is about unconventional CEOs”
2018
Tren Griffin – Pulling the Thread - [Invest Like the Best, EP.87]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · May 2018
“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”