Welcome to the Rainmakers podcast! This show is going to be an exploration on the world’s best investors from past and present to see how exactly they made their returns. In this episode we will be going over the career of Jack Kent Cooke. Cooke became a billionaire by finding creative ways to operate media businesses. He helped Roy Thomson operate struggling radio stations to then partnering with him to buy different magazines and then became a pioneer in the sports business.
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Mark Leonard Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uHEOdyn622mABGv7rd6Y_uQL1ngr94z6/view?pli=1
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Sources:
The Last Mogul by Adrian Havill
Jack Kent Cooke: A Career Biography by Adrian Kinnane
Market Place: Teleprompter: Fight Widens by Robert Metz
Jack Cooke: Genial But Tough by Steve E Prokesch