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“According to the book Seinfeldia, which is a great read, there were a bunch of early online communities about Seinfeld”

“Warren spent uh a great amount of time with us, which is wonderful. He also wrote A fantastic oral history memoir of his time at NBC called Top of the Rock”

“I discovered hilariously reading Bernie's book, Kick Up Some Dust, the foreword of which was written by his good friend, the rapper. pitbull”

“in the book Built from Scratch, which is the awesome book that uh is kind of the canonical Home Depot story written by Bernie and Arthur”

“as chronicled in Ken's book, I Love Capitalism, because Bernie's still on the board at this point”

“where we try to figure out what does a company have that enables it to get persistent differential returns or to be more profitable than their nearest competitor on a sustainable basis. And those seven are scale economies, network economies, counterpositioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power”

“ABC deal here in nineteen ninety five. I don't think If they're really honest, that Disney. And Michael. really knew how how big ESPN At this point ESPN had sixty six million cable subscribers, but they were only just beginning to really ramp their pricing leverage. There's a Roy E Disney quote on this. Nobody would have told you when that deal, the ABC deal, was being made that ESPN was going to turn out to be the weightlifter of the group. Nobody involved in it in any way ever would”

“There's even a quote in Bob Iger's book, which which we haven't talked about, Bob yet, but we will comes into Disney via the Cap Cities acquisition”

“my main source for facts and waltz quotes on this episode, Neil Gabler's biography, Walt Disney. The triumph”

“There's a great excerpt from the book The Animated Man by Michael Barrier. In the spring of nineteen forty one”

“And as a recent book, The Bogle Effect argues. Vanguard's actions also forced the hand of the rest of the industry to cut their fees”

“Jack tells an anecdote. at the beginning of of the book's Stay the Course, which is his memoirs”

“To Morgan Housel, our good friend and financial author famously of Psychology of Money”

“Justin Bear there, who has a book coming out soon called House of Fidelity”

“to Charles D. Ellis for the book Inside Vanguard”

“this whole episode comes from the fantastic, really definitive biography of Enzo called Enzo Ferrari, written by Luca Del Monte”

“I mean the title of his memoirs is My Terrible Joys. Tells you everything you need to know”

“Just recently published I think the best business history book of Formula One called The Formula”

“Adrian's book is great, talking about sort of his career in F1 and what he's learned”

“there's a great passage in the book Electrifying the Wrist Watch, which is Lucian Trube's book”

“James Dowling, one of the co-authors of The Best of Time, which is a great Rolex history”

“he was right in the middle of Crunch. for his deadline for his next Rolex book, The Rolex Legacy, coming out in October”

“Sam Walton actually wrote in Made in America. That he stole more ideas from Saul than anyone else in his business career”

“We found This awesome biography of Sol that's like really rare. It's out of print. It was written by his son Robert”

“As chronicled by Bradstone in the Everything Store. Coffee date. between Jim Senegal and Jeff Bezos in two thousand one”

“which is adapted from Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers book, which is an amazing framework for business strategy”

“Michael Lewis. Altar of Moneyball, Liar's Poker, the Blind Side, the Undoing Project, going if and on and on and on”

“Michael Lewis. Altar of Moneyball, Liar's Poker, the Blind Side, the Undoing Project, going if and on and on and on”

“Michael Lewis. Altar of Moneyball, Liar's Poker, the Blind Side, the Undoing Project, going if and on and on and on”

“Our last episode was with Andrew Ross Sorkin, founder of the New York Times dealbook, host of CNBC Squawk Box. and author of 1929”

“I was working on the Sam Bankman Fried book. And um I was talking to A publicist. Completely unrelated to Warren Buffett. And she said You know, I also represent Warren”

“It's called The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothes, and it's a fantasy trilogy”

“It's basically how I govern ourselves. It's um I always mispronounce his name it's V Vanavar Bush. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Who who essentially created the American Science Project. And it's a little, it's a basic, I think he started it as a memo to FDR”

“one great book I read for research was Last Man Standing to prep for the Jamie Diamond interview”

“Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Glenn Brenner. You ever read that”

“Mark Pendergrass in his great book for God, Country, and Coca-Cola. That was a main source for this episode has a Great quote”

“The book I was reading, which is called Secret Formula. It's a great book on the history of Coca Cola that had access to all the corporate archives”

“this comes from Benjamin Lore. Who wrote the exceptional book? The secret life of groceries, which we're going to reference a bunch in this episode”

“Joe writes in his great great, great, great autobiography called Becoming Trader Joe. That came out a couple years ago”

“The other of which is a book that he was reading called White Shadows in the South Seas”

“I read This other book for research called Build a Brand Like Trader Joe's. By this guy, Mark Gardner”

“This is like a small little passage in Stephen Levy's great book that's been a source for all of our Google episodes, in The Plex”

“we gotta thank Cade Metz, the author of Genius Makers, great book on the whole history of AI, that we're actually gonna reference a lot in this episode”

“Shane has a quote. in Parmi Olson's great book, Supremacy, that we used as a source for a lot of the Steve Mind story”

“Steven Levy writes in in The Plex that the perception of Google's ventures beyond search is At the time. was that the company was tossing balls into the air like a drunken juggler”

“There's a new book that actually just came out. Ari Paparo. The book is called Yield”

“Andrew Warsorkin is in here and I just read his book Oh, he's nice enough to send it to me in nineteen twenty nine and Man, history does rhyme”

“This is from John Battell's book The Search, which is excellent”

“In the Plex, Stephen Levy's book, great book that we used as a source for the episode”

“And for new listeners to the show, this is based on a book called Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer”