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Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2024-10-01

Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Ray Ozzie: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #391

Ray Ozzie - The Future of Intelligent Machines - [Invest Like the Best, EP.391]

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My guest today is Ray Ozzie, one of the great technologists, software developers, and entrepreneurs of our time. Ray is perhaps best known as the creator of Lotus Notes, a collaboration tool that revolutionized business communication in the 1990s.

Ray Ozzie recommended The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Harry Coase.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Nature of the Firm

    Ronald Harry Coase · at 1:28:34

    The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Harry Coase is a seminal economic essay and book that explores why business enterprises exist and how transaction costs influence organizational structures.

    Recommended
    “I know this is a little counterintuitive, but if anybody really wants an education, go all the way back to the 30s and read The Nature of the Firm by Ron Coase. In those days, the big company was all there was”
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Passing What Technology Wants
“I always love that framing that Kevin Kelly has in that book. I think the book is called What Technology Wants.”
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