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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

The CEO of the largest single investor in the world, Norges Bank Investment Management, interviews leaders of some of the largest companies in the world. You will get to know the leader, their strategy, leadership principles, and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Friday Wrap-Up: Milken’s Method and a Tech Day in New York
Nov 2026 · 2 books
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The Fabulous Debt
Robin Wilsworth
“I read the chapter in Robin Wilsworth new book. on debt the debt market, which is called The Fabulous Debt”
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
“Well I was more into you know the three musketeers and a bit of uh you know bravery and fighting and that kind of stuff”
Mike Milken: Access to Capital, the American Dream, and Why Risk Is Misunderstood
Nov 2026 · 1 book
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
“there was a book published by a friend of mine a long time ago called Factfulness. And he in fact passed away. uh shortly before the book was published by his daughter and son in law”
Friday Wrap-Up: Nuclear, Batteries and Reflections from New York
Nov 2026
NextEra Energy CEO: Powering AI, Nuclear's Comeback and a Historic Utility Merger
Nov 2026
Friday Wrap-Up: Inside Active Strategies and Learning from Bill Ackman
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
“the late Dan Kahneman I think describes it really well in his book Thinking Fast. Thinking slow”
Bill Ackman: Concentrated Investing, Permanent Capital, and the Value of Being Challenged
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
“I don't know if there's one book that's taught me the most, but there's one book that had a very significant impact on me. Um A theory of justice by John Rawls”
Friday Wrap-Up: Lessons from Google’s Former CEO and Europe’s AI Regulation Problem
Oct 2026
Eric Schmidt: The Age of Agents, Superintelligence, and Why Europe Is Falling Behind
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Eric Schmidt
“In your book, uh Genesis you you warn that AI will We shape truth, politic, security, science”
Friday Wrap-Up: Online Dating and the Portfolio Manager Debrief
Oct 2026
Match Group CEO: Digital Dating, What Makes a Good Profile and the Loneliness Epidemic
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The House of Morgan
Ron Chernow
“I just finished Two biographies, one House of Morgan by Ron Chernoby about JP Morgan and his descendants”
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands
“FDR um you know, great recent book, Trader to His Class, which I also just read”
Friday Wrap-Up: Lessons from a Former Boss and the Decline of Shareholder Rights
Oct 2026
John Armitage: How He Invests, Building Egerton, and What Worries Him About AI
Oct 2026
Friday Wrap-Up: The Humanoid Robotics Race and What You Should Be Reading
Oct 2026
Horizon Robotics CEO: Car Chips, Mind-Off Driving and China's Speed
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin
“Well, recently I'm reading uh Uh one book. Oh what's the name of the book? It's um it's telling about the story about three companies. Microsoft Intel and the Apple. It's about the other kind of decisions, strengt uh strategies. They they're There'd been Nineteen. Uh To create. The error of a personal computing”
Friday Wrap-Up: A President's View on Global Power and Learning from Big Tech
Sep 2026
President Alexander Stubb: A Changing World Order, Democracies Facing AI, and Golfing with Trump
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order
Alexander Stubb
“Earlier this year, Alexander wrote a book about how the old world fell apart and who decides what comes next”
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Göran Stubb: Kuinka voin auttaa?
Risto Pakarinen
“There's now a book coming out on him this fall”
Friday Wrap-Up: A Guru of Simplification and the AI Slowdown Debate
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula That Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors, and SpaceX
Jon McNeill
“and I think the book he wrote called Algorithm is so powerful. And basically what it talks about is that you have to question absolutely everything that you do”
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
“And that's something that also, you know, Elon Musk talks about in his book, the importance of doing that. That's what they've done in SpaceX”
Jon McNeill: The Algorithm Behind Tesla and SpaceX, Why Automation Should Come Last, and Setting Unrealistic Goals
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Made in America
Sam Walton
“it wasn't until I read Sam Walton's book, Made in America, that I started to appreciate Sampling your own product on a daily basis”
Friday Wrap-up: Physical AI and China's Speed Advantage
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Where the Wind Blew
Michael Moritz
“I listened to one of them, Michael Moritz, who was one of the original partners at Sequoia, who now came out of a book about his Jewish background”
XPeng Co-President: China's EV Race, Flying Cars and Humanoid Robots
Sep 2026
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