Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2023-11-28

Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Peter Fenton & Victor Lazarte: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #354

Peter Fenton & Victor Lazarte - Purpose and Partnership - [Invest Like the Best, EP.354]

1 book · With Peter Fenton, Victor Lazarte · Listen

My guests this week are Peter Fenton and Victor Lazarte. Peter and Victor are both General Partners at Benchmark.

Peter Fenton discussed Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Finite and Infinite Games

    James P. Carse · at 32:07

    Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse is a philosophical examination of how life, politics, and business are shaped by rules that either perpetuate play or seek a winning conclusion.

    Discussed
    “There was a week about three years ago where Patrick, Collison and Toby, both indirectly, actually somewhat directly in the case of Toby said, you got to go read this book, Infinite and Finite Games.”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Factfulness
“I had an argument or a discussion, I should say, with my friend Jeremy, me taking the Hans Rosling side of these incredible improvement curves in human history and him taking the side of, well, yeah, but if you take some other measures such as suicides under a certain age, it's the worst it's ever been. Mental health measures are”