Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 16th/17th July 2022
The Distillation of Toto Wolff by WhatGotYouThere
“My experience with high performing individuals – that very last percentage of high performers – is that they either suffered trauma or humiliation or both. Because what would justify developing that above average drive and ambition”
Secretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad by Michelle Celarier
“There is no point in subjecting our investors to risk in a market which I frankly do not understand,” Robertson said in March 2000, as he announced he would return to investors what was left of their money....”
Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down by Elizabeth Dwoskin
“Serving Americans who are disaffected from corporate America today would be the backbone of the next generation of major companies — and almost nobody is going after that opportunity in a serious way...”