Episode · a16z Podcast · 2018-03-26
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader
Few operators become VCs, and even fewer go back to leading companies... so how does these perspectives change how one leads?
Andy Rachleff discussed A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel is a foundational financial text arguing that stock market prices are completely unpredictable and that passive index investing outperforms active stock picking.
Discussed“our chief investment officer wrote the book literally called a random walk down Wall Street forty three years ago that found that people would be better off buying an index than they would trying to pick individual stocks”
Where to get it
