Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is this chemical that is used.
It improves plant growth and increases crop yields.
so they see an opportunity here they put together the company and then layman brothers cautiously developed the american potash and chemical corporation then nursed it along until a very attractive bid was made by the standard oil company of new jersey so leveraging the relationships they have and the information they collect they'll also make the bets if they don't see anybody else doing it there's a great line a few pages later uh reflecting on some of the most successful deals in merchant bank history says the funny thing is that hardest things to raise money for often turn out to be the best
And again, we see this constant hounding on learning from history and reading literature is actually the best preparation for this trade.
He considers literature and history excellent approaches to investment banking.
I get tired of people who think that banking is accounting.
Banking is imagination.
And then what's also funny is how they take a long-term view on relationships, but then they make the mistake of not taking a long-term view on some of the assets that they actually owned.
And so they're going through all the mistakes they made because, again, they talk over and over again.
Like, you're going to make mistakes in this business.
Like, if you're not comfortable with that, you have to find something else.
And really, it's true for any business.
Then if you want to make mistakes, then you can't move.
You just have to sit on the couch all day.
So they said, we could own 20% of these giants today and be billionaires today.
Unfortunately, we did not keep the shares that made me think of one of my favorite quotes came from Nick Sleep.
He says, the best investors aren't investors at all.
They're entrepreneurs who never sold.
Another common theme in some of their greatest deals, they are doing many things that more conventional bankers ignored.
And then back to secrecy and discretion and lack of paperwork, no bureaucracy.
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