Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2025-06-04
Books mentioned on #814: Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship — From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise, The $100M Breakfast, Dominating Social Media (30B+ Views/Year), Key Strategic Decisions, and The Moneyball of Fight Matchmaking
Chatri Sityodtong (@yodchatri) is the founder and CEO of ONE Championship, one of the top-10 biggest sports-media properties in the world in terms of viewership and engagement (alongside the NBA, Formula One, Champions League, and Premier League), with a global broadcast reach to 195 countries.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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One Up On Wall Street
Discussed“I was obsessed with martial arts and that anyone from my childhood would tell you, Chatch is a He's the martial arts guy. He's crazy about martial arts. But I was also crazy about for Christmas somebody gave me the book One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch. It's a great book.”
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The intelligent investor
The Intelligent Investor is a classic 1949 text on value investing written by economist and professor Benjamin Graham.
Discussed“And so I got obsessed with Warren Buffett and you know, Ben Graham and intelligent investor. And this was like when I was again a teenager and I just voraciously consumed it, but I never thought I would ever do something along those lines, right?”
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Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee's classic Tao of Jeet Kune Do compiles the martial artist and philosopher's extensive notes, sketches, and philosophical musings on combat and life.
Discussed“Another person that I think books and there's a lot of books on Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is someone and people may think of may not truly understand. Bruce Lee was, yes, he was a world-class martial artist, but he was a a very deep person and how he thought about life and meaning of life. And so, reading his”
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Creativity, Inc.
Creativity, Inc.
Discussed“I remember one of my most nerve-racking interviews very, very early on that I had was with Ed Catmull, who at the time was president of Pixar, and he wrote a book called Creativity Inc., and it talks about storytelling quite a lot.”
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