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Cable CowboyBook

by Mark Robichaux

Who uses, recommends or left Cable Cowboy, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Kevin Weil
Product leader at OpenAI, where he was chief product officer; earlier led product at Instagram and Twitter.
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and then uh I really enjoyed Cable Cowboy. I don't know who the author is, but uh the biography of John Malone. Just fascinating if you like business, especially if you want to get into like I mean the man was uh an incredible dealmaker and shaped a lot of the modern cable industry. So that was a good biography.

Lenny's Podcast, "OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2025-04-10·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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