Episode · This Week in Startups · 2023-07-07
Jason Calacanis & Lon Harris: books mentioned on This Week in Startups (Jul 2023)
Business Breakdowns: The rise and fall of "Blackberry" with Lon Harris | E1773
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Jason Calacanis discussed Losing The Signal by Jacquie McNish and others. Also mentioned: Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Losing The Signal
Discussed“that book presumably was very carefully researched but now we're kind of riffing on the ideas in the book and it's taken on an element of fictionalization for sure”
Where to get it
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Moneyball
Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a celebrated nonfiction book documenting how the Oakland Athletics baseball team leveraged analytical models and statistical data to gain a competitive edge.
Discussed“I think I was gonna say Moneyball I think would be another Money Ball is great which is a movie I think that up for for non-business people comes up a lot in terms of like business lessons that you could extract from a movie Moneyball I think was a a really clever sort of way to take that non-fiction”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Losing The Signal
“It's a Canadian film about a Canadian company based on the book losing the signal the untold story behind the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of blackberry that's by Jackie mcnish and Sean silkoff”
Plugged Angel
“the founders Brandon and Carmen they are Avid listeners to this podcast this week in startups and they actually started their company after listening to this pod and reading my book Angel”
Passing The Founder
“I like putting on the list the founder yes with the 2016 Keaton Michael Keaton and the book's great as well uh about Ray Kroc”