William Green recounts that Lou Simpson and Charlie Munger had both been buying Alibaba, with Lou commenting self-deprecatingly that since he had just bought it, it was "bound to go down 50% immediate...

Investor Will Barker is a mentee of Nick Sleep, has Jeff Bezos as an investor in one of his businesses, and is also mentored by Jim Sinegal, the former CEO of Costco.

Tom Gayner runs Markel Corporation, a company with approximately 20,000 employees.

Brad Stulberg's new book, titled "The Way of Excellence," was scheduled to be published on January 27th.

The investment fund Nomad, managed by Nick Sleep and his partner Zach, invested in long-term oriented companies such as Costco, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon.

Warren Buffett has described his work building Berkshire Hathaway over 60 years as a "lovingly built" endeavor.

Robert Pirsig's book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" was rejected by approximately 121 publishers before its publication in 1974.

Oaktree Capital Management, co-founded by Howard Marks in 1995, oversees approximately $223 billion in assets in alternative investments.

Lou Simpson's investment style was to do "a lot of thinking and not a lot of acting," in contrast to many investors who do the opposite.

Nima Shahaei worked with Lou Simpson at his firm SQ Advisors in Naples, Florida from 2016 to 2019.

Oaktree Capital Management has approximately 1,400 employees around the world.

Lou Simpson served as the head of investments for GEICO for 31 years, from 1979 to 2010.

Matthew McLennan oversees approximately $130 billion as the head of the Global Value team at First Eagle Investments.

David Epstein's 2019 book "Range" was a number one New York Times bestseller.

In a 1970 lecture, Herbert Simon argued that a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, consuming the attention of its recipients.