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Book · 2015 · Biography & Autobiography

Red Notice

How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

by Bill Browder · Recommended by 7 people on 5 podcasts

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I wanted to write the kind of thing that if you read the first 10 pages, you just wouldn't be able to put the book down.
David Perell · How I Write · Feb 2026 Listen at 2:50

What they say about it

Grouped from 19 mentions
  • Calls it an incredible book
    3
  • Mentions author Bill Browder
    3

The best things said about it

5 of 19 · every mention
Recommended
You know in Russia obviously uh if you've read red notice your lawyer will be murdered like that book by the way incredible incredible I mean it just if you want a incredible book to read this summer or listen to the audio book's fantastic as well.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Jul 2024
Recommended
A red notice informs law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and temporarily arrest a fugitive pending extradition surrender or similar legal action.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Mar 2023
Recommended
One of the best books I've read on this was called Red Notice, oh yes, Bill Browder, incredible and about who is Putin.
Joel Greenblatt This Week in Startups · Mar 2022
Recommended
One of my favorite books, probably top three books the last decade, is this incredible book about the guy who created the Magnitsky Act to protect people from these incredible oligarchs.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Dec 2019
Discussed
I wrote my first book, Red Notice, and it turned into a major international bestseller.
Bill Browder How I Write · Feb 2026

Where and when it comes up

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Counted mentions by episode date. Our archive is deeper for recent years; 2026 so far.

How it comes up

Recommended means the speaker tells listeners to read it.

Most mentions, by podcast

5 shows

7 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Why people recommend it

Red Notice by Bill Browder is a gripping memoir detailing the author's financial career in Russia, his subsequent battle against state corruption, and his campaign to pass the Magnitsky Act following the tragic murder of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. On This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis recommended the book as a top read and praised its audiobook adaptation while warning listeners about the extreme risks of doing business in Russia. Joel Greenblatt also recommended Red Notice on the same podcast to illustrate the importance of the rule of law and property rights when evaluating international investments. On an earlier episode, Calacanis praised the book to Josh Browder, whose father is the author. Bryan Fogel discussed Red Notice on The Joe Rogan Experience while talking about Russian assassinations and Browder's ongoing human rights advocacy. Additionally, David Perell and Bill Browder discussed the book's structure and its gripping narrative style on How I Write, highlighting how its carefully crafted chapters immediately hook readers from the very first pages.

Every mention

19 counted mentions · 5 passing or ad reads below
Jason Calacanis have you ever read the book red notices one of my favorite books probably top three books the last decade i… 6
Recommended
“you know in Russia obviously uh if you've read red notice your lawyer will be murdered like that book by the way incredible incredible I mean it just if you want a incredible book to read this summer or listen to the audio book's fantastic as well”
Recommended
“Interpol also issued a red notice for dokwan for his arrest that informs uh if you don't know what a red notice is it's also a book a great book uh but a red notice informs law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and temporarily arrest a fugitive pending extradition surrender or similar legal action”
Discussed
“and and in in red notice you know it's basically you know bill's making some nice wins and then maybe he won a little bit too much and then you know what somebody goes down to a central office”
Recommended
“have you ever read the book red notices one of my favorite books probably top three books the last decade is this incredible book about the guy who created the Magnitsky act to protect people from these incredible oligarchs”
Discussed
“I'm breaking chops but I raised your dad's book because my friend Chris Sacca I was railing about how horrible Putin is and the fact that our country is cozying up to this person”
Discussed
“that was this part of the book that was a little dicey when they put him in a room and took all his stuff away from him”
Bryan Fogel one of the guys i've spoke to a lot who have become a good friend is bill browder you know who wrote red no… 1
Recommended
“one of the guys i've spoke to a lot who have become a good friend is bill browder you know who wrote red notice have you read have you read bill's book”
Joel Greenblatt well one of the the uh best books i've read on this uh was called red notice oh yes bill browder incredible… 1
Recommended
“well one of the the uh best books i've read on this uh was called red notice oh yes bill browder incredible and about who is putin”
Bill Browder well, as it turned out, – I wrote my first book, Red Notice. – And it turned into a major international bes… 6
Discussed
“well, as it turned out, – I wrote my first book, Red Notice. – And it turned into a major international bestseller.”
Discussed
“What's interesting is that when I – I wrote the book and I wrote about getting the Magnitki Act passed and it's all very dramatic and great and everyone feels good about it and I had I had a – a senator from Australia – read Red Notice and was so inspired by reading Red Notice that – during COVID”
Discussed
“I was reading Grand Notice. – I like I know that place, the big swimming pool.”
Discussed
“like for example, there – is a – in – in the first chapter of Red Notice, we talk about – the – airport, Shermeto airport in Moscow”
Discussed
“Um, so like I mean there's a – there's a chapter in – in – Red Notice where I'm talking about – discovering something called preferred shares of Russian companies”
Discussed
“The hardest stuff to write about is something that's – that's not exciting. – The deposition, you know, – there – there's a chapter in – in Red Notice – about when I was at Solomon Brothers long before I ever moved to Russia.”
David Perell Well, talk to me about beginnings. You know, after you wrote Red Notice, you said, "I wanted to write the k… 2
Discussed
“Well, talk to me about beginnings. You know, after you wrote Red Notice, you said, "I wanted to write the kind of thing that if you read the first 10 pages, you just wouldn't be able to put the book down."”
Discussed
“Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, when I think about reading Red Notice, I can see I would guess that you write chapter by chapter because the chapters are these sort of contained units.”
Greg Cowles at number 11 a book called red notice by Bill Browder Browder ran what for a time was the biggest hedge fun… 1
Discussed
“at number 11 a book called red notice by Bill Browder Browder ran what for a time was the biggest hedge fund in Russia”
Joe Rogan did you ever read the Robert Kennedy book no one's on my list but I have not holy [__] pretty good I need t… 1
Discussed
“did you ever read the Robert Kennedy book no one's on my list but I have not holy [__] pretty good I need to read that”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“brother wrote the book on red notice right actually he's a friend”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Bill Browder's written two books, Freezing Order and also a book called Red Notice, which was everywhere when it came out in 2015, and it is a page turner.”
Passing
“I learned that from reading Red Notice uh discussing how he got 100 bagger buying shares in Russian corporations.”
Passing
“maybe because just you know Josh Browder is Bill Browder who wrote the book red notices son he's an entrepreneur and he has do not pay is the name of company”
Plugged
“my first book which is called red notice um uh i was uh i launched the book”
Passing
“then he cites Bill Browder wrote a book called red notice who's this like billionaire who was basically driven out of Russia because he was trying to fight for his friend Sergei Magnitsky who was killed”

Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Jason Calacanis, Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0); Bill Browder, World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0); Joe Rogan, The White House / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).