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Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2021-07-01

Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Michael Mayer: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #40

Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40]

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My guest today Michael Mayer, is the founder and CEO of Bottomless, a company that automatically replenishes your coffee supply where I am both an excited investor and customer. Today’s conversation is about tactical lessons Michael has learned while building the business.

Michael Mayer discussed Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Seeing Like a State

    James C. Scott · at 10:11

    Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott is a critical examination of how large-scale state planning, infrastructure projects, and bureaucratic systems often fail because they ignore local knowledge and human realities.

    Discussed
    “And I had read a book maybe a few years before coming up with the idea called Seeing Like a State, which is all about how states or governments or whatever, their entire function is making legibility among their population”
    Michael Mayer Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40… 2021-07-01
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“If all I consume is information related to my life, or I'm reading books about machine learning, or entertaining books like Shoe Dog about building a business, I'm still sitting there in the shower thinking about what is required to build a startup.”
Michael Mayer Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40… 2021-07-01
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