Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2025-07-25
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Brad Jacobs: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best (Jul 2025)
Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
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Brad Jacobs discussed How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs and The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Discussed“But I'm going to add a third to that as I write in the book. Thank you for reading it. Which is when people sell a business.”
Where to get it
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The Singularity Is Near
Discussed“one of the acknowledgements actually is Ray Kurzweil because Kurzweil wrote a book in I would say 2006 2006 or so called The Singularity is Near and its premise was that technology is advancing at ever increasing speeds”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He's also written a book that will be out in January titled, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. What a title.”
Passing The Singularity Is Near
“when I was reading the tech chronology in your book it gave me flashbacks to reading Ray Kurzweil's work back in my 20s or something the singularity is near what do you think of that notion”