Book · 2014 · Business & Economics
Flash Boys
A Wall Street Revolt
#210 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- people
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- podcasts
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- episodes
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An incredible story about change in our markets and the efforts of some people to try to make the markets work better.
Ezra Klein · The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2023 Listen at 1:01:17 What they say about it
- Discusses high frequency trading“high frequency trading”3
- Points out role of speed“speed has become such a big”2
The best things said about it
You gotta get this book if you really want to know what's going on.
Flash Boys is all bullshit.
A book about Brad Katsuyama and a small group of rebel Wall Street investors.
Flash Boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing.
Brian Armstrong Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022 It was very very good book.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
13 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis is a dramatic non-fiction account that exposes the rise of high-frequency trading and Wall Street market manipulation through the eyes of a group of rebel investors. On Breaking Points, Emily Jashinsky recommended the book as a very good read to illustrate the complexities of modern trading and first-to-market advantages. Morgan Ricks similarly praised the work on The Ezra Klein Show as an incredible story about market evolution and the efforts of innovators trying to make financial systems function more fairly. Conversely, Nick Kokonas offered a sharp critique on My First Million, arguing that while Lewis is a great writer, his depiction of trading in Flash Boys was entirely incorrect based on personal experience in the industry. The book also surfaced frequently in discussions regarding financial technology, with Shaan Puri and Vlad Tenev referencing its themes to explain quant trading and the speed advantages of server placement, noting how its initial publication coincided closely with the launch of companies like Robinhood.
Every mention
Emily Jashinsky Have you ever read the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis? It was very very good book. I came out on probably… 1
Recommended
“Have you ever read the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis? It was very very good book. I came out on probably almost 15 years ago at this point.”
Ezra Klein so the first book will be Michael Lewis's Flash Boys which is just a an incredible I mean typically of Mich… 1
Recommended
“so the first book will be Michael Lewis's Flash Boys which is just a an incredible I mean typically of Michael Lewis an incredible uh story about change in our markets and the efforts of some people to try to make the markets work better”
Morgan Ricks so the first book will be Michael Lewis's Flash Boys which is just a an incredible I mean typically of Mich… 1
Recommended
“so the first book will be Michael Lewis's Flash Boys which is just a an incredible I mean typically of Michael Lewis an incredible story about change in our markets”
Brian Armstrong So there's a lot of people like traders who get super into this, like high-frequency traders, and arbitrage… 2
Discussed
“So there's a lot of people like traders who get super into this, like high-frequency traders, and arbitrage, and all kinds of interesting topics. Flash Boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing.”
Discussed
“Flash boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing”
Brian Feroldi which is why speed has become such a big um it's a big component which was pointed out in Michael Lewis's u… 2
Discussed
“which is why speed has become such a big um it's a big component which was pointed out in Michael Lewis's uh book Flash Boys but that's all again the extreme mechanics of it”
Discussed
“which is why speed has become such a big um it's a big component which was pointed out in Michael Lewis's uh book Flash Boys”
Jason Calacanis but in crypto what they're doing is when these meme coins come out people have created there's an equivalen… 2
Discussed
“but in crypto what they're doing is when these meme coins come out people have created there's an equivalent of this in the stock market people there was a book flash Traders where people were building high speed high frequency trading”
Discussed
“so you know i always felt the high frequency trading thing was flash boys yeah i felt that that felt to me like unfair”
Robert Evans In 2014, Lewis published a book called Flash Boys, which is a book about Brad Katsuyama and a small group o… 2
Discussed
“In 2014, Lewis published a book called Flash Boys, which is a book about Brad Katsuyama and a small group of rebel Wall Street investors...”
Discussed
“in 2014 Lewis published a book called Flash Boys which is a book about Brad katsuyama and a small group of of Rebel Wall Street investors”
Vlad Tenev When we announced Robinhood, our initial waitlist in 2013, there was this book that came out, "Flash Boys."… 2
Discussed
“When we announced Robinhood, our initial waitlist in 2013, there was this book that came out, "Flash Boys." And it was basically coincident with the announcement of Robinhood—the Michael Lewis book.”
Discussed
“I just read "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis. You gotta get this book if you really want to know what's going on.”
Joe Rogan that's another Michael Lewis book yeah oh is it flash boys yeah 1
Discussed
“that's another Michael Lewis book yeah oh is it flash boys yeah”
Jon Lovett and what whether it's Flash Boys or Going Infinite leads you to wonder about what these companies are doing. 1
Discussed
“and what whether it's Flash Boys or Going Infinite leads you to wonder about what these companies are doing.”
Nick Kokonas Chances are that if you're going to write a book about trading, I'm going to pick on Michael Lewis here. Gr… 1
Critiqued
“Chances are that if you're going to write a book about trading, I'm going to pick on Michael Lewis here. Great writer. Great writer. Love his books. Love reading them. When he finally wrote about something I actually knew about, I went, oh, this is all wrong. Flash Boys is all bullshit.”
Ranjan Roy And the idea that Michael Lewis is saying, like, FTX is never an exchange if Alameda does not exist. And I… 1
Critiqued
“And the idea that Michael Lewis is saying, like, FTX is never an exchange if Alameda does not exist. And I can't believe that he does not recognize that, given he wrote a book on exchanges with Flash Boys.”
Shaan Puri If you ever read Flash Boys, there was like a whole like quant trading thing where if they put your server… 1
Discussed
“If you ever read Flash Boys, there was like a whole like quant trading thing where if they put your server close to the New York Stock Exchange server, you could get your trade in before the guy who was doing it through a sent like a normal uh server.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“and what whether it's Flash Boys or Going Infinite uh leads you to wonder about what these companies are doing.”
Passing
“or they've got a microwave line between New Jersey and Chicago and they're trying to ARB the difference between two markets you need to have the fastest connectivity in the world to pull this off this is Flash Boys”
Passing
“his books include liars poker Moneyball The Big Short Flash Boys and now going infinite the rise and fall of a new Tycoon”
Passing
“His books include Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys, and now, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”