Goodrich
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What we read shapes how we think. These are the books behind the decisions on capital, business building, mental models, and the broader ideas that inform how Goodrich approaches every mandate. Curated for operators, investors, and anyone doing serious work.
Titles in this edition
15
Across capital, operations,
mental models, and worldview.
mental models, and worldview.
Capital, Investing & Fund Thinking
Capital & Investing
The Intelligent Investor
The foundational text on value investing. Still the clearest thinking on what it means to act rationally with capital in an irrational market.
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Capital & Investing
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Munger's collected wisdom on thinking, investing, and life. The mental models section alone is worth more than most MBA programmes.
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Capital & Investing
The Psychology of Money
Why smart people make poor financial decisions, and what behaviour actually drives long-term outcomes. Required reading before deploying capital.
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Capital & Investing
Same As Ever
On the things that never change — human nature, risk, greed, fear. More useful than any market forecast.
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Capital & Investing
Venture Deals
The mechanics of term sheets, economics, and control. If you're doing a deal, this is the book that removes the information asymmetry.
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Capital & Investing
Think and Grow Rich
The original study of what separates those who accumulate wealth from those who don't. Published in 1937 and still unmatched on the psychology of ambition and decisive action.
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Building & Operating
Building & Operating
Buy Then Build
The case for acquisition entrepreneurship over starting from scratch. Directly relevant to the acquisition-side mandates Goodrich works on.
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Building & Operating
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
What building and running a company actually feels like. No frameworks, no platitudes. Just the decisions that don't have good answers.
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Building & Operating
High Growth Handbook
Scaling from product-market fit to a durable company. Practical and dense — written for operators, not commentators.
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Building & Operating
Zero to One
On monopoly, competition, and why the best businesses create something new rather than competing in existing markets.
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Mental Models & Decision-Making
Mental Models
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The science behind how we make decisions — and why we're systematically wrong in predictable ways. Essential for anyone evaluating deals under uncertainty.
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Mental Models
The Great Mental Models Vol. 1
A working toolkit for clearer thinking. Concepts from physics, biology, and mathematics applied to everyday decisions and business problems.
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Worldview & Wildcards
Worldview
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Naval on wealth, happiness, and clear thinking. One of the most densely useful collections of ideas on what it means to build a life around leverage.
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Worldview
Principles
Dalio's operating system for decision-making, management, and life. Polarising but serious. The framework behind one of the world's largest funds.
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Worldview
The Sovereign Individual
Written in 1997, it predicted digital currency, the erosion of the nation-state, and the rise of individual sovereignty. Prescient and uncomfortable.
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