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Cover of The Outsiders by Will Thorndike

The Outsiders

Will Thorndike · 2018
Mentioned 25 times across 6 podcasts · 2018–2025
Mention timeline13 mentions
20182025
Where it's mentioned Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · 13×
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”
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”
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”
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
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”
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”
2019
[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”
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”