Jeremy Grantham, Bubble Historian
The Compound and Friends
Josh Brown
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jeremy, somebody published a list of your favorite books, but then when I looked at the site, |
| 0:05.5 | it didn't appear that you actually contributed these. They pulled this list from your interviews |
| 0:10.6 | that you've given over the years. So let's ask Jeremy, do you think you know your favorite books? |
| 0:15.2 | So you might not even know that these are your favorite books. I'll tell you what they are. |
| 0:20.0 | The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann, dirt, the erosion of civilizations. |
| 0:26.6 | Yes, we'll check that one. Okay. Immoderate greatness, why civilizations fail. |
| 0:31.7 | Three checks. Okay. Any light reading or... That is my light reading. |
| 0:37.8 | The end of normal, the great crisis in the future of growth by Galbereth. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So is that a real realistic list? Is there anything missing that pops |
| 0:46.8 | the mind? Oh yeah, that's a ton of missing. I'm sure tons. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm sure tons. Jeremy, I feel like there's an angel and devil on your shoulder. |
| 0:54.4 | Say more. Because you're very optimistic with your long-term thinking, right? |
| 0:58.7 | The way that you allocate the foundation's money. But don't ask you about the next six months. |
| 1:04.7 | We're going to ask you about the next six months for sure. Next six years. |
| 1:08.7 | Also. We'll ask you about the next six years for sure. Although, I feel like I have a |
| 1:12.5 | little bit of Jeremy Grantham and me. I'm always scared about the short-term. Optimistic, but I'm always |
| 1:17.7 | scared. Yeah. If we want to start with... We'll have a much better, much better starting promise. |
| 1:27.4 | We're going to have a better start once the crew tells us that we're ready to go. |
| 1:34.7 | Jeremy, how did you meet your partners? How did I meet Mayo and Van Achtel? |
| 1:40.2 | I met them at a group called Keystone Funds in 1968. They were approximately as |
| 1:48.0 | big as Fidelity. Fidelity had 1.9 billion under management. Wow, that's it. |
| 1:54.3 | And Keystone had 1.7 or 1.8. Oh wow. And Fidelity turned me down and Keystone offered me a job. |
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