Raising the Capital Gains Tax, and Creating Better Simpler Strategy
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Youngme , Mihir , and Felix debate whether it makes sense to raise the capital gains tax. They also discuss how companies can create better and more creative competitive strategies – the topic of Felix’s new book, [Better Simpler Strategy](https://www.amazon.com/Better-Simpler-Strategy-Value-Based-Exceptional/dp/B08Y639VC9/ref=sr13?dchild=1&keywords=better+simpler+strategy&qid=1621186962&sr=8-3).
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
- Better Simpler Strategy (Felix Oberholzer-Gee)
- [Making Great Strategy](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Great-Strategy-Organizational-Advantage/dp/0231199481/ref=sr12?crid=1ZQLDE65RDK4F&dchild=1&keywords=making+great+strategy+arguing+for+organizational+advantage&qid=1621187182&sprefix=making+great+strategy%2Caudible%2C257&sr=8-2) (Jesper B. Sorensen and Glenn Carroll)
- The Department of Salad (newsletter by Emily Nunn)
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
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| 0:25.0 | HBR presents. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone, you're listening to After Hours. I'm young me. I'm Felix. I'm here. I feel like it's been a long time since the three of us have been together. |
| 0:51.0 | It has been a long time. So I don't know about you guys, but I do this thing where I keep a mental list of things that I want to ask you about when I see you next. |
| 1:01.0 | Maybe we should do like a version of this show where we do like a 60 second round robin, like on every single topic that you could possibly imagine. |
| 1:09.0 | And you get one minute to answer. Yes. And I'll hit the buzzer. The equivalent of a tweet. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, Felix, go. Oh, easy. So figuring out what we wanted to talk about tonight was hard. But then the end of the day, the one I wanted to pitch to you guys was taxes. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, baby. I don't know. All the topics you're choosing taxes. I know. I mean, we've talked about corporate taxes before on this podcast. Yeah. |
| 1:38.0 | I want to talk about personal income taxes because Biden has put forth a proposal that has some pretty eyebrow raising pieces to it. |
| 1:46.0 | I think one of the most eyebrow raising pieces to it is raising the capital gains tax not by a little. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah. And so I wanted to ask about that. And then me here, you had a phenomenal topic. You wanted to bring it. |
| 1:59.0 | You know, I think it's kind of just amazing. Sometimes people just time things in the world perfectly. So I think young me, we see companies all the time. |
| 2:08.0 | Yes. |
| 2:09.0 | Kind of rethinking strategy from the ground up right now because of everything that's going on in the world. And then lo and behold, who comes out with a book? |
| 2:17.0 | What could it be? Who could it be? |
| 2:19.0 | Time itself. I don't know. Could it be our friend? It could be our dear friend. Felix overholes a key who has a new book called Better Simpler Strategy. |
| 2:26.0 | So we got to talk to him about it. Do you have all of 60 seconds to answer questions about the most? |
| 2:31.0 | Exactly. So no, I think young me, we got to go to school with Felix on Better Simpler strategy. |
| 2:37.0 | Absolutely. |
| 2:43.0 | So in addition to being in the presence of a strategy giant in the form of Felix, we are also in the presence of a tax giant. |
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