Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2026-09-16
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Michael Moritz: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #491
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]
Michael Moritz led Sequoia Capital for nearly two decades and backed some of the defining companies of the internet era. In his new memoir, Ausländer, he turns his attention to his own family, Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives in Wales.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy discussed Ausländer by Michael Moritz. Michael Moritz discussed Leading by Alex Ferguson and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ausländer
Ausländer by Michael Moritz is a deeply personal memoir chronicling his family's history of escape, exile, and survival.
Discussed“When I was reading your book, one of the lines or the ideas that has really stuck with me ever since is where does one person end and the next person begin?”
Where to get it
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Leading
Discussed“And I learned a lot of that, actually, from the way that I did this book maybe 10 or 11 years ago with a famous soccer manager. I was just going to ask about Alex Ferguson.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Scoop
“And I met this fellow, Bill Deeds, who was the editor of the Daily Telegraph and was a revered figure in British journalism and had actually, in an earlier life, been the figure on which Evelyn Waugh had modeled one of the characters in his famous satirical novel called Scoop.”