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 first episode we will study the career of the legendary investor Richard Rainwater. He began managing Bass family investments and turned their initial $50M into a whopping $5B in 16 years. In the first part of this 3 episode series, we'll delve into Rainwater's journey with the Bass family. Exploring his investment approach, his and the Basses backgrounds, his thesis development, and real case studies to understand his money-making strategies. I hope you enjoy the episode, if you do or have any input on other investors I should study please leave a review! Links: I wanted to give a special shout out to the accounts on Twitter that helped me producing this series. @turtlebay_io: https://twitter.com/turtlebay_io @rhunterh: https://twitter.com/rhunterh @themagicbakery: https://twitter.com/themagicbakery Sources: - Wall Street Week by Louis Ruckeyser - Wildcatters by Sally Helgesen - The Big Rich by Bryan Burroughs - Storming the Magic Kingdom by John Taylor - Money Masters of our Time by John Train - The Art of Success by The Editors of Fortune Magazine - The Disney Touch by Ron Grover - Rainmaker: The Saga of Jeff Beck, Wall Street's Mad Dog by Anthony Bianco - The Change Maker: Preserving the Promise of America by Al Checchi - Financier Rainwater Inspires Audience in HBS Speech - HBS Bulletin June 1988 - “Even For Texans, The Basses Are Rich” by Ann Crittenden - “Perry R. Bass, 91, Patriarch of Famed Texas Oil Family, Dies” by Leslie Wayne - Dunn, David J Oral History by Carole Kolker - Alive and Well and Working in Philadelphia by Wharton Magazine 1996 - Investing Secrets of the Rainwater Rolodex by Hillary Rosenberg - The Bass brothers cut in the public by Richard Greene - How the Basses caught their billions by Christopher Palmeri - How the Bass Brothers do their Deals by Kathleen Stauder Have any feedback? DM me @rainmakerspod on Twitter!