Reddit reviews Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

This is nothing. Wait until the story of "Jo-Lo" (I think that's his name) gets made into a movie. Over 5 billion swindled from foreign governments with the help of Goldman. He's also the guy that funded our beloved "Wolf of Wall Street" movie when Hollywood refused. Listened to one of the authors on a Rich Dad podcast and just......holy shit. Dude makes Jordan Belfort look like a kindergartner.

Here's the book:

The Billion Dollar Whale

Wow thanks for the gold and the sticky, glad to see other people find this interesting too. Not gonna lie I'm also pretty excited about getting tweeted by MachinePlanet.

It's easy to draw parallels between any 2 things, but the volume of similarities here goes beyond that. I reread Bad Blood recently and didn't see nearly this much overlap. The main takeaway is that both Enron and Tesla started out with good intentions but their arrogance wouldn't allow them to admit when things needed to change.

Anyone interested in this type of thing should definitely check out The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. Here's a few other recommendations that cover business failures. And of course if you haven't read Bad Blood yet do that as soon as possible, can't recommend it highly enough.

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Billion Dollar Whale: How an opportunist stole 2 billion dollars from Malaysia's government and blew the money on parties with Leo DiCaprio

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street: The rise and fall of Bear Stearns

https://www.amazon.com/House-Cards-Hubris-Wretched-Excess/dp/0767930894

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management: How a hedge fund run by geniuses, including 2 Nobel prize winners, lost 4 billion of capital in just a few years.

https://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Management/dp/0375758259

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Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide: How AIG ended up needing an $85 billion bailout during the housing crisis

https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Risk-Cautionary-Corporate-Suicide/dp/0470889802

Book recommendation on Jho Loo: Billion Dollar Whale https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

>plus the 2 journalists from Wall Street Journal, instead of some triad gangster.

Buy their book. That's the best award you can give them.

The book about it has been selling

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

Assumed most people will wait till there is a movie based on the book...