Bryan Burrough - Barbarians at the Gate
A Book with Legs
Smead Capital Management
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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In this episode, author and journalist Bryan Burrough joins Bill and Cole Smead to discuss his classic work, "Barbarians at the Gate." The book is a detailed narrative of the high stakes battle for RJR Nabisco. Burrough explores the complex negotiations behind one of the largest leveraged buyouts in corporate history, highlighting the strategies by the major players involved.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management. |
| 0:08.0 | At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure. |
| 0:12.8 | You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager. advisor. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to a book with legs podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. |
| 0:31.0 | At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help shape informed investors. |
| 0:32.1 | In this podcast, we speak to great authors and their writing. |
| 0:35.2 | The late great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental |
| 0:37.7 | models and analysis. We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people. |
| 0:43.5 | We are going to talk about a time in American history and the history of Wall Street. This book, |
| 0:49.7 | which spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been hailed as one of the |
| 0:53.7 | most influential business narratives of all time. Brian Burrow is joining us to discuss Barbarians |
| 0:59.4 | at the Gate, the fall of RJR. Nabisco, which he co-authored with John Hellyer in 1989. |
| 1:05.8 | A little background about Brian. Brian is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair Magazine. |
| 1:11.4 | He is the author of five other books, including his latest Days of Rage and one that I'll look |
| 1:16.4 | forward to jumping into it a later date, also The Big Rich, since we're oil folks these days. |
| 1:21.1 | He is a three-time winner, the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial |
| 1:24.7 | Journalism. |
| 1:25.8 | From 1983 to 1992, he was a reporter for the Wall |
| 1:29.5 | Street Journal, where he reported from Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, and during the late 1980s |
| 1:36.0 | covered the business, pardon me, the mergers and acquisition beat in New York. He has written |
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