Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2024-10-15

Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Matt Perelman & Alex Sloane: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #393

Matt Perelman & Alex Sloane - The Art of Franchise Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.393]

2 books · With Matt Perelman, Alex Sloane · Listen

My guests today are Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, Co-founders and Managing Partners of Garnett Station Partners. GSP invests in the trillion-dollar franchise and consumer services industries.

Mentioned: Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell and others and The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Play Nice but Win

   Michael Dell; James Kaplan · at 1:26:20

   Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell and James Kaplan is a business memoir chronicling Michael Dell's journey from founding Dell Computer out of his college dorm room to leading it as a major global chief executive officer.

   Discussed

   “And we send out every year our two favorite books as a holiday gift to all of our partners. And one of them a few years ago was the Michael Dell autobiography, Play Nice But Win. It's a book we loved.”

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   The Predators' Ball

   Connie Bruck · at 1:29:20

   The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck is a financial history book that chronicles the rise and fall of the junk bond market and the corporate takeover era of the 1980s.

   Recommended

   “We have pretty much every finance book written from 1979 to 2023. We read them religiously. We reread Predator's Ball, which is the story that started them all every January.”

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