Founder of Russian Hedge Fund on Defying Putin with Bill Browder - ENCORE EPISODE

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger · Mar 1, 2022 · 56m

Bill Browder is the author of Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and one Man’s Fight for Justice, which is the best book I’ve read in a decade (and I read a lot of books). Red Notice is the story of how Browder turned a $25 million investment into a $4 billion hedge fund (Hermitage Capital) by exposing corruption in the newly opened Russian economy of the late 90’s and early 00’s. Eventually, Browder’s efforts to shine light on the newly privatized industries, cut too close to strongman, Vladimir Putin who kicked Browder out of the country and declared him a “threat to national…