Summer Book Recommendations

I received numerous requests for book recommendations in the last few weeks. The rise in the mercury clearly correlates with an increase in reading under umbrellas on the beach.

Here are a few books I really enjoyed over the last few years. Note that my tastes are far ranging and eclectic and cover everything from sci-fi soap operas to behavioral economics.

Beach Reads and Page Turners

Non-Fiction

बघीरा को समर्पित स्तुति

मुझे बहुत दुःख हुआ कि मेरे प्रिय बघीरा का एक वर्ष पूर्व निधन हो गया । मैं यह श्रद्धांजलि उस प्यार और खुशी के साथ साझा करना चाहता था जो उसने मेरे जीवन में लाई।

मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूं और तुम्हारी याद आती है बघीरा!

Forbes just named me the #1 angel investor in the world :)

They counted publicly recorded investments and exits to make their ranking. Admittedly they are not
the best metrics. Number of investments only shows how prolific I am, not how good an investor I am.
Likewise many of those exits might be unsuccessful. That said, actual performance is hard to figure out
from Crunchbase and Angelist data, so this is a reasonable proxy. Besides if you are an entrepreneur
looking for money, you probably want to approach a prolific investor 🙂

This is giving me an incentive to keep my Crunchbase and Angelist profiles up to date because the data
they have is completely out of date. I have now made around 400 investments, with 150 exits. Of those
150 exits, I made money on around half and my realized IRR (on actual cash on cash exits) is 67%
(including all the investments on which I lost money).

It’s good to be the king! Now if only my ego and I could still fit in the same room 🙂

You can read the article at:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2018/08/05/top-50-angel-investors-based-on-investment-volume-and-successful-exits/#72fc2dca7748

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