Red Notice
by Bill Browder · first published 2015
73% recommend23% neutral3% critical
Why HN recommends it
Reads like a spy thriller yet is a true account of investing in 1990s Russia, oligarchs looting state assets, and the Magnitsky case; useful background on Putin's rise and how Russian business and corruption work.
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Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him expelled from Russia. In 2007, a group of law enforcement officers raided Browder's offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes that his fun
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Bill Browder's book about the rise of Putin, oligarchs taking over state resources and corruption and financial crime in the USSR Red Notice is fantastic, as is his followup book Freezing Order. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609522-red-notice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366154-freezing-order I also liked Harry Markopolos'…
on “Books to read to understand financial crime” ↗If you haven't read Bill Browder's Red Notice, read it now. Wow. Wow. Just wow. YCombinator is in the Kremlin's pocket. Wow. I fully expect this to be downvoted to oblivion. But wow. In essence, Putin used Browder's investigations of Gazprom and…
on “Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments” ↗…https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-... [3] Ex-US NSA Analyst, basic primer, and many other well-sourced articles: https://observer.com/2017/03/kremlingate-russia-spy-game-dis... [4] Bill Browder 'Red Notice', chronicling the history of his fund investing in Russia, the RUS govt theft/fraud of $230million, murder, and continuing insights into how [5] Garry Kasparov, 'winter is coming' former world chess…
on “Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook” ↗…every single Russian citizen was given stock certificates for ownership in state enterprises. Yet in only a few short years, only 22 had the power. Moreover, the apparent rule of law is a farce. Read Red Notice by Bill Browder to get an insight into how it worked. And yes, the proper place of the law IS to restrain voluntary economic interactions so as to maintain a balanced marketplace, avoid the Tragedy Of…
on “Uber Can’t Be Fixed – It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down” ↗A book I just read that I highly recommend: Red Notice by Bill Browder. The true story about how a grandson of the American Communist Party's 1940 presidential candidate made millions of dollars investing in Russia in the 1990s, and became one of Putin's…
on “Books I read this year” ↗I highly recommend Bill Browder book on this topic - "Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy". It's an awesome read - and very interesting. It's written by the guy who used to run the biggest investment fund in Russia and was quite an activist. Later, he and…
on “The Troika Laundromat” ↗…investors do but I'm thinking more focused on corruption fully rather than just underperforming companies. Something like what Bill Browder did in Russia back in the day (and if you haven't read his book Red Notice, it's an incredible read, has helped lead to Magnitsky Acts around the world, but I won't spoil it)
on “G.E. Is Accused of $38B Fraud” ↗Any good book recommendations? I just finished Red Notice by Bill Browder which was fantastic.
on “'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle” ↗…Russia, and more particularly, Putin's rise to power, I highly recommend 3 books. 1) Catherine Belton: Putin's People https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VMZYK13/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... 2) Bill Browder: Red Notice https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O30HFT2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... 3) Masha Gessen: Several books, but I particularly liked Man without a Face https://www.amazon.com/Masha-Gessen/e/B001H6MBXK
on “The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary” ↗…consolidation of massive amounts of power in the hands of whoever managed to wield local power for their benefit at the time--those who became the oligarchs. Bill Browder writes a bit about it in his book, Red Notice. The book is also a great cautionary tale that the whole narrative that we can spread democratic ideals by making business deals with with corrupt/despotism regimes is smoke. It leads to more corruption,…
on “Moore's Law for Everything” ↗Also worth reading are Red Notice and Freezing Order by Bill Browder.
on “Books to read to understand financial crime” ↗If you read the Red Notice by Bill Browder, you will know this to be true about Russia: It's a lost cause. It's a lost cause because the good people in Russia are killed and eliminated with impunity by thugocracy. You can't have…
on “Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia” ↗…backstory about how all of this came about. If you can get over the self-aggrandizing language, it's a really interesting perspective on business dealings amongst the elites in Russia. https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/...
on “Inside Bill Browder’s War Against Putin” ↗On Russia, Bill Browder's book Red Notice does an exceptional job of going into detail describing what you mention. It is really quite special.
on “Who Owns Huawei?” ↗…Twitter", the suggested result that appears is of a Russian smear account with less than 1% of the followers as the real account. For those of you who don't know who Bill Browder is, he is the author of Red Notice (fabulous book) and activist behind the Magnitsky Act. Also a famous enemy of Putin, corruption in Russia, and other Russian Oligarchs. Here is a screenshot of how it looks when typing in "Bill Browder…
on “Searching for Russian Activist on iOS Safari Shows Smear Account” ↗