Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2017-02-21
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Alex Moazed: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #25 (Feb 2017)
Alex Moazed – Building Modern Monopolies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.25]
My guest this week is Alex Moazed, the co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy, which explores the platform business model (Uber, Airbnb, Github).
Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed, and discussed The Systems Bible by John Gall. Alex Moazed recommended The Master Switch by Tim Wu and Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Modern Monopolies
Recommended“I have a rule that when I love a book I do my best to find and meet the author. I usually fail but sometimes I succeed and this week's episode is a great example of why I go to the trouble. My guest is Alex Moset and the book in question is Modern Monopolies”
Where to get it
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The Systems Bible
Discussed“I read a, an interesting book. I've referenced a few times, um, called the systems Bible, which is a fascinating book. And one of the the things that talks about is that there never has been, there's no examples of a complex system that people have designed and dropped in and then it's worked, right?”
Where to get it
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The Master Switch
Recommended“I mean, I think, well, some of the, some of the books that, that I know we read with myself and coauthor and Nick Johnson, uh, while putting the book together was Tim Wu's book, the master switch really does, especially if you want to dig deeper into this kind of, you know, old monopoly versus new platform, modern monopoly”
Where to get it
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Zero to One
Recommended“I think some of Peter Thiel's work as we were talking about is great, really fast, quick, easy reads like zero to one, but the, you know, the concepts are there and pure and, um, he's definitely a strong stalwart and in the arena of, of this thinking.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Modern Monopolies
“I think the book launch was a pretty huge milestone. I never thought I'd be an author to, to begin with, but I, I am that title and I was invited to a conference and they had my bio and they said author and I looked at it saying, I guess, I guess so.”
Passing Modern Monopolies
“And that's actually who the book is dedicated to.”