Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Before we dive into history and facts, we owe a big, big, big thank you to Alice Schroeder and her wonderful book, The Snowball, which I (at least) used as my main source for this episode. Ben, you read the… Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, a great book by Roger Lowenstein. I thought this book was awesome. People talk about Snowball all the time as the sort of more popular Buffett biography. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, so I think you can’t go wrong. Yeah. We’ll get to compare and contrast as we go here. Alice’s own story’s pretty amazing. I didn’t realize until looking this up. She was an equity research analyst on Wall Street covering insurance companies, and she wrote to Warren in 1998 asking to talk to him. Warren had never talked to Wall Street research analysts before, but for some reason he takes her call. She was the first research analyst to initiate coverage on Berkshire. Kind of amazing. Then in 2003, another author approached her about writing a book together on Buffett. She talks to Buffett and he says, well why don’t you just write it instead and I’ll give you full access, like thousands of hours with him. It’s amazing. Amazing story, so definitely go check out both The Snowball and Buffett. Great books, highly, highly recommend.…

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