Andrew Ross Sorkin: How to make sense of today’s market

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Is the stock market in an AI bubble? What happens if it bursts? To understand our current economic moment, it’s essential to understand history. That’s why journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin joined host Jeff Berman onstage at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco in October. His new book is 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation. Sorkin explains the lessons we can learn from this historical moment – and how they provide cautionary tales.

The book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665634/1929-by-andrew-ross-sorkin/

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1:10.8	Hey folks, Jeff Berman here. This week, we are sharing a conversation I had recently with
1:17.7	Andrew Ross Sorkin at our Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco.
1:22.7	Andrew is truly a brilliant journalist whose work appears in the New York Times and on CNBC.
1:30.6	He's the author of the bestselling book about the 2008 financial crisis, Too Big to Fail.
1:36.0	His new book is called 1929, and it is an incredibly well-researched history of that year's stock market crash, chock full of parallels
1:46.7	and cautionary tales for today's economy. I am so grateful he joined us on stage for this conversation. Andrew shared that he had an interview where the person you were sitting across from said,
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